Hannu Salonen
Hannu Salonen is a Finnish film director. He works primarily in Germany.
Works
Scene of the Crime
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Release Date1970-11-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count125
Polizeiruf 110
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Release Date1971-06-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count26
Crossing Lines
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.
Release Date2013-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count122
Arctic Circle
During a routine search of an old cabin in the remote and wintery back country, Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, discovers two dead prostitutes, with a third still fighting for her life. The ensuing investigation takes a surprise twist when an extremely rare and deadly virus is discovered in the surviving woman’s bloodwork. When the Finnish Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, German virologist, Thomas Lorenz is called in to assist in identifying and containing the virus. Set within the endless white expanse of the arctic circle, Nina and Thomas must rely on each other to have any hope of saving the ones they love. But what takes precedence? A deadly virus or an active serial killer?
Release Date2018-12-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count16
Vote Count67
Murder by the Lake
Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.
Release Date2014-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count29
Shades of Guilt
In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Kronberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem. In German with subtitles.
Release Date2015-02-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count17
Crime Stories
A respected small-town physician has brutally killed his wife, thus ending a four-year martyrdom from which he could not escape by any other means...
Release Date2013-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count12
Ostfriesenkrimis
Headstrong but successful Chief Inspector Ann Kathrin Klaasen and her team use unorthodox methods to investigate cases against the backdrop of the beautiful and tranquil landscape of the North Sea coast.
Release Date2017-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
A young girl falls in love with a poor brewer's son. Their relationship is opposed by the girl's father, a rich mobster who has come to town to try to bully his way into the inner circle of Munich's brewery dynasties.
Release Date2020-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count60
I Am Scrooge
The story of a department store extortionist who in the late 1980s in Germany became an international media sensation and fooled an entire nation, receiving the nickname "DuckTales Bandit."
Release Date2024-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Adam’s Eight
Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
Release Date2026-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Jennerwein – Hochsaison
Jennerwein has barely started his job in Garmisch-Partenkirchen when a Danish ski jumper falls to his death, the president of the Winter Games Committee narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, and anonymous letters announce further crimes. Amidst suspicious villagers and vain local politics, Jennerwein must unmask a perpetrator who craves attention and is playing a deadly serious game.
Release Date2026-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vares: The Sheriff
Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is hired to investigate these homicides. Cable Wires take Varesta towards Turku underworld dominant invisible godfather, sheriff. Sheriff is the man whom nobody knows and we do not discuss. Vares drifts dangerously close to the "jury", the secret underworld lord clubs, the members of the human spirit is a cheap commodity. Rummaging through the case Vares get too close to the truth.
Release Date2015-01-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count18
Turmschatten
"Turmschatten" is a thriller series on Paramount+. It's based on the three minutes short film Turmschatten (2020).
Release Date2024-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Vienna Game
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ein gefährliches Angebot
Release Date2016-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Die Hebamme
After the death of her mother Gesa also wants to learn the profession of midwife, But because the city midwife rejects her she has to apprentice to Professor Kilian in the city's birthing house. However, he abuses the unmarried pregnant women housed there for his studies.
Release Date2014-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Liebe ist die beste Medizin
On the news of his father's death, the successful city doctor Dr. Peter Haller to the funeral in his hometown. What he does not suspect: His father, also a respected doctor, has only faked his demise! With this trick he wants to persuade Peter, who had turned away from him many years ago, to take over the father's practice. But Peter is determined to leave as soon as possible. His attitude changes only when he falls in love with Stella, who is as beautiful as she is sensitive.
Release Date2004-07-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The Seduction - The Strange Girl
Victoria and Markus are a couple who are spending a holiday in a cottage. One evening they decide to host as a guest a 17 year old girl who was hitchhiking in the vicinity of the house. But the girl soon will begin a game of seduction with Markus ...
Release Date2011-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Die Hebamme II
In the second part of the historical thriller, midwife Gesa succeeds in becoming the first female medical student to be admitted to Vienna's General Hospital. But while Gesa immerses herself in the world of medicine, a gruesome series of murders begins to spread fear and terror among the women.
Release Date2016-02-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Blindspot
After his wife Anara's serious car accident, Max searches for answers behind the glossy facades of Frankfurt and gets caught up in a downward spiral of intrigue. Anara is comatose but alive. The police suspect that her car has been tampered with. Max suspects his colleague and rival Patrick of being involved. Together with him and his colleague Saskia, he is pitching software successfully to a powerful sheikh. Max is cornered from all sides - even the sheikh could be part of the conspiracy. Saskia is his last ally, but she has to limit the damage to prevent the deal from falling apart. All the threads seem to converge in a mysterious club, and Max has to take drastic measures to regain his perfect life.
Release Date2023-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Des Kaisers neue Kleider
Many years ago, there lived an Emperor, Friedhelm, who wanted so much new clothes that he spent all his money to be properly cleaned. One day, three scammers with a ruse, came along who pretended to be weavers, Jacob, Maja and Greta. "The clothes are so special, that they are invisible to any who are hopelessly dumb or unworthy of office."
Release Date2010-12-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Birth of a Champion
He was the first German to win Wimbledon and the youngest male player ever to do so – Boris Becker, the tennis legend. But on his way to the top, there were many obstacles, not least his own ambitions…
Release Date2021-12-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Vasha
Tom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game of vengeance and death when he befriends Artur - a Chechen man, hell bent on revenging the torture and murder of his family - on the streets of Tallinn.
Release Date2009-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Inspektor Barbarotti - Mensch ohne Hund
Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of the Hermanssons are missing. One is the black sheep of the family, a hapless aesthetic who achieved notoriety as "Wichs-Walter" after a lewd TV appearance in a jungle camp.
Release Date2010-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Dresden Mord - Nachtgestalten
Release Date2016-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Inspektor Barbarotti - Verachtung
Shortly after Swedish police detective Gunnar Barbarotti receives at home an anonymous letter during his holiday announcing the murder of some Anna, the bloodily stabbed corpse of Anna Palme is found. It's the first of a few murders with clues ahead, one naming Gunnar as mark. Barbarotti lists 60 possible vindictive persons from his past. Considering some of them proves dangerous, but probably futile as he stumbles onto the twins Kalle and Ole Borg's family intrigue.
Release Date2011-04-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Wolfsland - Die traurigen Schwestern
Release Date2021-12-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Ein Teenager flippt aus
Release Date2001-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Der Mann von gestern
In order to forget the love of his youth, a man flees to Namibia
Release Date2007-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Downhill City
A handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama Downhill City. Finnish musician Artsi heads to Berlin in hopes of hitting the big time; needing a place to stay, he takes a room at the Downhill City Hotel and ties to find a market for his music. Meanwhile, another Downhill Hotel resident, aspiring author Fabien, meets a former convict named Sascha who has nowhere to stay and offers to take him in. Peggy, who works at a fast-food restaurant, is unhappy with her boyfriend Hans and finally kicks him out. Peggy meets Artsi when he stops by the burger stand one day, while Hans (who ends up crashing with Sascha and Fabien) starts a new relationship of his own with Doris.
Release Date1999-06-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
All' Arrabbiata - Eine kochende Leidenschaft
Release Date2001-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Spur der Hoffnung
A dinghy drifts ashore on some forsaken beach. Its passenger is a Sri Lankan boy. Ben, a former Stasi-prisoner, saves and decides to hide him. But nothing escapes the small island community for long and soon the local policeman becomes suspicious. He and Ben used to be on opposite sides of the fence and now, as the fate of a refugee from far away unfolds, their own past catches up with them.
Release Date2006-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
不羁冠军路
Release Date2021-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector