Director: Ed Herzog
Script: Pea Fröhlich,Peter Märthesheimer
Photography: Benedict Neuenfels
Editor: Monika Bednarz-Rauschenbach
Music: Irmin Schmidt
Sound: Markus Heimeshoff
Casting: Lisa Rheingans (WDR)
Principal Cast: Dieter Pfaff, Eva Kryll, Michael Mendl
Producer: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker (WDR), Bettina Ricklefs (SWR)
Executive Producer: Frauke Hecht (WDR)
Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk in co-production with Südwestrundfunk for ARD
Distribution Germany: Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Tel: +49 221 220 299 5
Fax: +49 221 220 575 8
E-Mail: wolf-dietrich.bruecker@wdr.de
Internet: www.wdr.de
First Broadcast Germany: 04.09.2002, 20.15,ARD
Dr.Maximillian Bloch (Dieter Pfaff in a feature role),is a psychotherapist who specializes in defects and emotions of all sorts. With cunning,humor,and the intuition of a detective,he’s on the trail of the psychological secrets in his
"cases”,not without routinely despairing at his own faults.His way of managing things seems somewhat gruff, but under his tough exterior he’s almost too soft for the job.In his first assignment,Bloch must not only deal with an exceedingly uncouth suicide candidate and a covered-up scandal,but must also recognize that his own marriage is on shaky ground."Black Dust”is the first of a series of WDR/SWR co-productions about the sensitive doctor of the spirit.