SOKO Rhein-Main is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 19 April 2006 on ZDF. The series aired for two seasons and was discontinued in 2008. It is the seventh offshoot of SOKO München, launched in 1978. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word Sonderkommission, which means "special investigative team". The story is set in the region of Rhenish Hesse, focusing on the city of Frankfurt.

SOKO Rhein-Main
GenrePolice procedural
Written by
  • Matthias Herbert
  • Sandra Hoerger
  • Robert Hummel
  • Ralf Kinder
  • Uwe Kossmann
  • Ralf Löhnhardt
  • Claudia Römer
  • Lorenz Stassen
  • David Ungureit
Directed by
  • Michael Schneider
  • Michel Bielawa
  • Axel de Roche
  • Patrick Winczewski
  • Florian Froschmayer
  • Michael Wenning
  • Thomas Jahn
Starring
ComposerDirk Leupolz
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes18
Production
Executive producers
  • Rainer Jahreis
  • Norbert Sauer
  • Michael Wintzer
Producers
  • Rainer Jahreis
  • Norbert Sauer
  • Susanne Flor
  • Elke Müller
  • Dirk Eggers
Cinematography
  • Anton Klima
  • Andreas Zickgraf
  • Tobias Schmidt
  • Henning Jessel
  • Hartmut Lange
Editors
  • Ulrike Leipold
  • Carolyn Haag
  • Achim Seidel
  • Thomas Jahn
  • Sabine Matula
  • Michael Reysz
Running time45 minutes
Production companyUFA Film & Medienproduktion
Original release
NetworkZDF
Release19 April 2006 (2006-04-19) –
11 December 2007 (2007-12-11)
Related
SOKO – Der Prozess

Due to differences from other shows in the SOKO franchise, the first season of SOKO Rhein-Main was titled Die Spezialisten: Kripo Rhein-Main (The Specialists: Criminal Police Rhein-Main), and the SOKO moniker was adopted in the second season and later retained for reruns.

Cast and characters

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Actor Character Rank
Marita Marschall Susanne Meder Detective
Sven Martinek Thomas Wallner Chief Inspector
Ercan Durmaz Cem Pamuk Chief Inspector
Daniela Preuß Nina Horn Detective
Daniel Wiemer Pit Hartmann Detective
Francis Fulton-Smith Dr. Johannes Ried BKA chief

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