Screenwriter: Iva Prochazkova

Director: Ivan Pokorny

 

A 12-part TV murder-mystery series starring Ivan Trojan as Marian Holina, a Prague cop whose keen wits, reliable instincts, and idiosyncratic approach help him solve crimes committed under all twelve signs of the zodiac.  The ring these signs form, like crime itself, has neither a beginning nor an end.

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A few years back, Cain supposedly killed Abel, and we’re still talking about it as if it were the latest news in the police gazette.  Crime fascinates us.  It’s immoral, illegal, evil.  And because morals, laws, and even evil are human inventions, crime itself is dead human.  Given the right or wrong circumstances any one of us can become a criminal.

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As far as Marian Holina is concerned crime is simple.  It always sprouts from the same roots, only the thin top layer, the civilized crust, changes.  And what enables Holina to get to the roots is the ring – more precisely, the ring of the zodiac.  Unlike his colleagues on the homicide squad, Holina risks relying on his intuition; regulations are not sacred cows for him. During an investigation he’ll use anything and everything to help solve the crime – even astrology.  He’s convinced that the signs of the zodiac point to more than simply twelve fundamental personality types; they can reveal motives and even uncover the specific methods used in the dozen murders.  He sees astrology as a tool for the psychological analysis of individuals; a tool that can help him track down criminals.

 The series is available on iVysílání in the Česká Televize media library.