Season 3

Season 3 of Polizeiruf 110 (1973) is a GDR crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, nine episodes from a show that had by now become a fixture of East German television.

Again the structure is nine closed cases with no thread tying them together. A stolen ring set with a blue sapphire, a night-safe robbery, an emergency out on a lake, a suspect dragging a prior conviction behind him — and episode titles such as "Faces in Twilight" and "Friday Near Midnight" point the season toward darker, after-hours crime. There is more mood here and less domestic routine. The detective still solves things by talking and watching rather than chasing, which is the whole appeal. A fine place to start if the slow seventies procedural is your thing. Stream Polizeiruf 110 Season 3 online on iFILM.