検索キーワード： 制作 "SAGA EGMONT" 歴史

Johnny Rossendale zou liever op zee blijven, maar hij moet terug naar huis als het nieuws hem bereikt dat zijn moeder elk ogenblik kan sterven. Hij wordt opgewacht door ongure types die het gemunt hebben op de erfenis van zijn bemiddelde familie. De inzet: een echte Van Gogh. Meerdere daarvan (allemaal geschreven in de late jaren 1980 en vroege jaren 1990) spelen zich af op het water, met zeilboten in een belangrijke rol.

Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father's newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than a match for one another's brilliance and ambition.

Styrkar the Dane emerges from the blood-soaked fields of Senlac Hill, wounded, furious, and filled with purpose. Driven by loyalty and wrath, he becomes a hunted outlaw, a ghost in the woods, feared as the Red Wolf. Styrkar will carve his vengeance into the flesh of his enemies, or fall like the rest of his shield-brothers.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings, Styrkar, loyal housecarl to the fallen King Harold, journeys to Ireland in search of the dead king's exiled sons. When a plot to murder Harold's widow and infant son is uncovered, duty pulls him in a different direction. Fleeing back to England with the dowager and child, Styrkar's loyalties are tested as he's forced into an uneasy alliance with his old comrade Eadnoth, now sworn to William the Conqueror. When the sons of Harold return to reclaim their birthright, Styrkar must choose: stand with his blood brother or his brothers-in-arms?

La recherche du journal secret qui pourrait changer l'histoire à tout jamais. Moscou, 1990. La guerre froide touche à sa fin et les archives s'ouvrent petit à petit. Et lorsque Fluke Kelso, historien autrefois prometteur, tombe sur la piste du journal intime de Joseph Staline, il se voit déjà auréolé de gloire. Encore faudrait-il retrouver le-dit journal, apparemment dérobé par le chef de la police secrète la nuit de la mort de Staline, quarante ans plus tôt.

Retrouvez les Clifton et les Barrington dans leur traversée du XXe siècle. Giles, Harry, Emma et leurs enfants sont loin d'en avoir terminé avec leur destinée. Des jeux politiques de la compagnie maritime Barrington à la Chambre des Lords, de l'URSS au Mur de Berlin, la Guerre Froide et les conflits avec l'Irlande heurtent les Clifton et Barrington de plein fouet. Et alors que le poids des années est de plus en plus lourds sur les épaules d'Harry et Emma, une question les taraude : quel héritage laisseront-ils à leurs enfants ? Et tous devront choisir entre amour et ambition.

Repubblica di Weimar, luglio 1932. Gereon Rath, commissario della polizia di Berlino si trova di fronte a un enigma. Un uomo giace morto nel montacarichi del locale Haus Vaterland, il più importante ‘tempio del piacere' della città, che ospita, tra le varie cose, il più grande caffè al mondo. Il mistero si infittisce ancora di più perché la causa della morte sembra essere per annegamento. L'omicidio, avvenuto a Potsdamer Platz, sembra riconducibile a una serie di delitti che porteranno Rath a est, verso la Polonia.

Nell'arco di quattordici racconti a tema investigativo, tinti di screziature noir e ambientazioni storiche estremamente variegate, Riccardo Parigi e Massimo Sozzi ci accompagnano lungo un sentiero misterioso che – in rigorosissimo ordine cronologico – ci porta dalla Toscana settecentesca di "Delitto in agrodolce" fino all'aula di un moderno liceo classico in "Lo stoico perfetto".

Dezember 1948: Wer war Minna Schaade? Als Kriminalkommissar Heinrich Klemmer die grausam zugerichtete Leiche der Medizinerin im Berliner Tiergarten zum ersten Mal erblickt, erkennt er sofort: Ein gewöhnlicher Raubmord war das nicht. Bei seinen Ermittlungen in den Ruinen der Stadt gerät der junge Westpolizist schon bald in ein Netz aus Intrigen – und ins Visier des sowjetischen Geheimdienstes. Heinrichs Vorstöße werden immer leichtsinniger, er ermittelt im Ostsektor und damit auf verbotenem Terrain.

Will Britain take him in... or mark him as its enemy? Faustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British mother, a captive sold among the spoils after Claudius’ invasion. When both parents die within a month of each other, he sells the family farm and enlists, joining legendary general Agricola’s campaign to conquer the entirety of the British Isles. But Faustus will have to contend with more than ferocious British warriors and whip-cracking elements. For the bonds of blood can weigh heavy on one’s soul. The call of his mother’s true people.

O jovem Humphrey van Weyden é salvo de um náufrago pela escuna Ghost. Porém, ele logo compreende que seu pesadelo está apenas começando: o capitão Wolf Larsen o obriga a integrar a tripulação de seu navio! A bordo, ele vivencia a árdua rotina dos marujos e a tirania imposta pelo capitão.

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless in battle, Silus unearths a conspiracy that runs deeper than his worst nightmares.

A gripping historical thriller and the third instalment in the Rome's Invincibles saga. The battle for control of Rome continues. Octavian has defeated and killed Caesar's assassins, but the road to absolute power is still long and treacherous. A threat now comes from Sextus Pompeius – a cunning pirate who rules the Italian coastline, terrorising Perugia's citizens. Suddenly, Civil War seems like child's play in comparison to a campaign against piracy. Octavian is close to defeat and death.

1940. Dunkirk is over? Will Britain fight on or talk peace? Fugitive and Hitler admirer, Billy Houston, craves a Nazi-run Britain. Needing money and intent on burglary, it ends in murder. But he’s in luck, his victim has in his possession the entire anti-invasion plans for Southern Britain, this while Armistice talks are slated to take place on the Isle of Wight. A desperate Billy makes contact with Rudi Graebner, a German naval officer and spy embedded in the Spanish Embassy. The two have nothing in common - they instinctively take a dislike to each other and trust is at a premium.

How the mighty will fall... 1497. Pope Alexander VI Borgia is perfecting his plans for the control of Italy when a heinous crime deprives him of one of the people dearest to him. All of Rome is mobilised to discover the perpetrator but a strange series of coincidences means famous court painter Pinturicchio finds himself on the front line. To shed light on a murder, Pinturicchio is assisted by the city's most established artists, from Michelangelo Buonarroti and Filippino Lippi to Piermatteo d'Amelia and Perugino.

Zahlreiche Deutsche Wissenschaftler werden von den Alliierten, überwiegend den Amerikanern, außer Landes geschafft. In der neuen Heimat können sie, teilweise völlig unabhängig von ihrer Verwicklung im Nazi-Regime, ungestört ihre Arbeit fortsetzen. 75 Jahre später, wird ein amerikanischer Neuro-Wissenschaftler - Dr. Nathan Sanders - mit Krankheitsbildern konfrontiert, die er bisher in seinem Leben noch nie gesehen hat und stellt Nachforschungen an. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die historischen Ereignisse, so wie sie bisher dargestellt wurden, nicht stimmen können.

In der Gegenwart kommen die Verfolger Doktor Nathan Sanders immer dichter und werden gefährlicher. Zur gleichen Zeit droht in Berlin ein Haus einzustürzen. Die Vorkommnisse 1945 auf dem flüchtenden U-Boot spitzen sich zu. Die Lage der Mannschaft scheint aussichtslos. Ein geheimnisvolles Gerät taucht auf.

Der Real-Fiction Thriller geht in die nächste Runde. Die Lesestaffel basiert auf wahren Begebenheiten und anonymen Berichten. Ursprung der Geschichte ist Berlin, am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Ereignisse dort, haben eine gravierende Folge für die Gegenwart. In Berlin hat eine Zeitbombe mit unfassbarem Ausmaß zu ticken begonnen. Eine mörderisch Jagd beginnt und zieht weltweite Kreise...

She's out of retirement – and out for revenge! When Georgina Garrett wakes in the night to find intruders in her house, she knows she must do everything she can to keep her children safe. But just when she thinks the ordeal is over, she realises something is terribly wrong. She arrives at her crime-lord husband David Maynard's London house to find a bloodbath. Six of David's best men lie dead and he is nowhere to be found. Georgina may have walked away from the game but she's still the best player on the street.

It only takes one defeat to topple an empire. With Britain still in the grips of World War Two, Georgina Garrett has her own battles to fight. She has made many enemies over the years, and with every victory she's only grown stronger. But following a bitter betrayal, Georgina must find a way to claw herself out of the depths of despair and back to the top position within London's criminal underworld. She'll do whatever it takes to secure her freedom and defeat those who'd rather to see her dead.