SBS on Demand: Raven, 54 Hours.

SBS on Demand will premiere Eurodramas Raven & 54 Hours.

Raven
In Polish with English subtitles.
Thursday, 11 April.
All six episodes available.

Adam Kruk, a 40 year old police officer addicted to painkillers and psychotropic drugs, returns to the town he grew up in to find the paedophile who abused his friend, Slawek, years ago. Once there, he is unexpectedly called to investigate a new case – the kidnapping of a powerful man’s grandson, which he undertakes to help set him free from his past mistakes. As he was unable to protect Slawek, he sees this case as a second chance to protect a child and an opportunity for justice. Adam must control the darkest corners of his mind to solve the kidnapping and as the case unfolds, he discovers answers which will reveal an unexpected link between these two cases.

54 Hours
In German with English subtitles.
Thursday, 18 April
All four episodes

54 Hours recounts the incredible yet true events of 1988, of an armed bank robbery gone awry and the unbelievable events that followed. While fleeing from the police, the two gangsters take an entire bus hostage. The ensuing manhunt, however, turns into a disaster. The police make fools of themselves with their amateurish operations and, above all, are obstructed by the nation’s media who swoop down on the events in their rat race for the juiciest pictures and live interviews with the kidnappers. As Rösner, the driving force of the duo, orchestrates their 54 hours of fame in cold blood, his accomplice Degowski derives sinister pleasure from manipulating the media. But Degowski is also unpredictable and violent. When he loses his nerve and kills a teenage passenger in the bus, the two men choose two young women as their hostages while leaping into another getaway vehicle. Thus begins an odyssey that goes completely out of control.