Oscar U. Ehrlich

Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.

Isabelle, an editor of a lifestyle magazine who grew up without parents, finds out from the police that her father died not decades ago, but only yesterday. When she visits his farm, she discovers that she is also a big sister. Faced with the imminent institutionalization of her two young children, she has to make a decision: Career or family. A sympathetic caretaker makes it easier for her.

Eddy and Bruno are ordered to break into the villa of one of Germany's most powerful bankers in order to steal a file that can prove his criminal activities. The unscrupulous banker does not shy away from murder just to keep his years of fraud secret and to enforce his greed for power and money. A race against death begins...