After liquor is secretly added to his beer at the bar, Paschke runs off the road on the icy drive home and is caught by the police. Meanwhile, there are no leads as to who the bank robbers may have been.

Paschke is questioned at the police station and then lies to his wife about how his night ended.

Paschke is fired the morning after his accident, and finds the bag of money as he is removing his things from the company's vehicle.

Wolfgang brings the bag of money home and learns more about the bank robbery from a television report. Suddenly, the chief of police is standing at the door...

Christmas preparations are underway, but the police and the bank robbers are still looking for Wolfgang.

Paschke realizes that the bag of money is missing and has been mistaken for a bag of toys! He hurries to the church and finds himself getting into a Santa suit...

Wolfgang is kidnapped by the actual thieves, but manages to cleverly escape. However, the chief superintendent is waiting at his house.

Paschke, still disguised as Santa Claus, says he is making a delivery to Berlin to avoid the police and his wife. Unfortunately, his photo is in the paper and everyone has seen it.

Patrizia finds out about Superintendant Hagenbach's suspicions, as does the whole town. Paschke tries to decide what to do with the money.

The bank robbers steal the wrong bag from Paschke's house. All Paschke wants now is to give the money back.

While the bank robbers are chasing down every Santa Claus they see, Wolfgang Paschke seems to be developing a plan.

Paschke escapes the burglars once more and goes back to Ms. Kringel, who has counted the money and found that there is only half of the amount the bank manager claimed had been stolen.

Wolfgang runs to the house, but is arrested at the door. Meanwhile, there is a suspicious traffic jam in town and Frau Kringel seems to be very pleased with herself.

The real bank robbers are caught and now it is time to find the other half a million euros. Luckily, Paschke has a hunch where it has ended up, and is able to help the police catch the other thief in time and have a merry Christmas.

Peter Fricke is a veteran actor on the screen as well as on stage. He currently portrays crime author Arthur Putnam in the play “Murderous Fantasies,” which is on at the Rémond-Theater in Frankfurt. RheinMain TV reports.

"Gut gegen Nordwind" is a novel written by Austrian author Daniel Glattauer that was subsequently made into a play. In this report, you can see some of the conversations between the two protagonists: two people who accidentally meet over the internet.

In the play Rain Man the emotionally cold businessman Charlie Babbit is confronted with his autistic brother Raymond. Throughout the play Charlie grows through this experience. A video by rheinmaintv.

After gaining a few insights into the theater play Rain Man in the first part, the actors are now invited for an interview at rheinmaintv.

This trailer offers a glance into the complex world of the recent film installment of the German crime series "Tatort" ("Crime Scene"), filmed this time in Franconia.

In this award-winning short film, Ruby, a teenage loner who prefers computers to people, is asked to fix a classmate’s phone. But then the temptation to snoop starts overpowering her…

Now that Ruby has accessed everyone’s phones, and thus has the power to destroy relationships and friendships, she must grapple with her own guilty conscience.

Bookshop owner Oskar isn't exactly happy when his brother suddenly appears. He is as skeptical of his brother's intentions as actress Yvonne Klosterfeld is of the notion of true love.

Oskar has a crush on his neighbor, a famous actress, but only has contact with her through the items she gets sent to his store.

Oskar finds out that he is terminally ill and only has four weeks to live. Meanwhile, Yvonne's sponsored child from Zimbabwe shows up at her front door.