Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell ("Your Mission, Father Castell") is a German television series. In the series criminal cases are shown in which the Church and the police have to work together, given a pastor of the Catholic Church in Germany is not allowed to investigate alone. The English title of the series The Fifth Commandment is a translation of the original working title.
Premise Monsignor Simon Castell is a Jesuit who is specially commissioned by the Vatican to solve criminal cases all over the world, always in connection with the Church. Father Castell therefore has to acquire a wide variety of skills, such as flying aeroplanes, opening locked locks and doors, learning self-defence and even repairing motorbikes.
Main cast Actor Role Episodes (number 1 to 14) Note Francis Fulton-Smith Pater Simon Castell 1–14 Christine Döring Marie Blank 1–14 Police commissioner Hans Peter Hallwachs Kardinal Scarpia 1–14 Maja Celiné Probst Lisa Blank 1–10 Marie's daughter Lisa Kreuzer Franziska Blank 1–10 Marie's mother Anatole Taubman Dr. Jens Deißmann 1–4 Ercan Durmaz 5–14
Broadcast To accompany the 1st season, ZDF broadcast 4 so-called webisodes in the channel's own media library, short stories in which the Father's back story is told and how he was trained as a special agent.
Each episode has a duration of 45 min and had 3 seasons (for a total of 14 episodes) between 2008 and 2010.
Reception The series has been described as very popular and called "James Bond in cassock" by the Frankfurter Allgemeine.
See also List of German television series
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