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Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.


As a bodyguard at the BKA, Helen Schilling is responsible for the security of the controversial Minister of Economics and Environment Richard Bauer at a press event. When Bauer has a seizure in front of the journalists, it quickly becomes clear: the minister has been the victim of a targeted attack. In the course of the investigation, Helen becomes involved in a highly explosive plot, behind which a war for the dominance of future genetic research and its ethical limits is unfolding.

Svenja Jung
Helen Schilling

Marie Bloching
Paula

Samuel Finzi
Prof. Wöllner

Mina Tander
Nina Karlström

Ugur Kaya
Cem

Benny O. Arthur
Ed Deaver

Helene Grass
Lisa Hoettger

Hannes Jaenicke
Richard Bauer

Bastian Trost
Helge Jacobsen

Andreas Warmbrunn
Severin Prinz
Helix is a thriller, crime, tv movie film released in 2024 exploring themes of based on novel or book, murder, bio organic weapon, genetic disorder. Directed by Elmar Fischer, it stars Svenja Jung, Marie Bloching, Samuel Finzi. As a bodyguard at the BKA, Helen Schilling is responsible for the security of the controversial Minister of Economics and Environment Richard Bauer at a press event. When Bauer has a seizure in front of the journalists, it quickly becomes clear: the minister has been the victim of a targeted attack. In the course of the investigation, Helen becomes involved in a highly explosive plot, behind which a war for the dominance of future genetic research and its ethical limits is unfolding.
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