Stories from the set

The freight car numbers are AB2305 and TY1113. The numbers encode the birthdays of the series creators Tom Tykwer (May 23) and Achim von Borries (November 13).

The technique of closed-chest cardiac massage was only invented in 1960; in 1956 and 1947 only mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration was used.

The term "serial killer" was coined and came into common use only in the 1970s.

At the time of release, the most expensive non-English-language series.