Schulz & Schulz is a TV series consisting of five feature-length films starring Götz George in a dual role

Dual role

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 as twin

Twin

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 brothers Wolfgang and Walter Schulz

Schulz

Schulz is a common German family name in Northern Germany. It is roughly equivalent to the English family name Constable; the German word Schulz originates from the local official known as Dorf-Schulz, a local law enforcement officer like a police officer or magistrate...

 who during WII

WII

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 were separated and then raised in different parts of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. The first film was broadcast while the German Democratic Republic

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

 still existed. In the aftermath following the fall of the Berlin wall

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...

 many new topics arose. The instalments showed how difficult it was for a great many citizens of the German Democratic Republic to get accustomed to the new way of life and how German people tried to overcome all of that together.

Cast

Character	Actor	Episode
Walter Schulz Wolfgang Schulz	Götz George Götz George Götz George is a German actor, son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg commissar Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort.-Early years:...	All
Erika	Marlen Diekhoff	All
Britta	Martina Gedeck Martina Gedeck Martina Gedeck is a German actress. She came to broader, international attention due to her roles in films such as Mostly Martha, The Lives of Others, and The Baader Meinhof Complex...	All
Erwin	Gerhard Garbers	All
Guenther	Werner Schwuchow	All
Alexander	Bodo Frank	All
Dorothee	Sybille Waury	1-4
Jochen	Krystian Martinek	All
Ma Schulz	Carmen Molinar	All
hooligan	Moritz Bleibtreu Moritz Bleibtreu Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.Bleibtreu was born in Munich, the son of actors Monica Bleibtreu and Hans Brenner, and the great-grand-nephew of the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu.Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg...	5
waiter	Eberhard Feik	1 (cameo Cameo appearance A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television... )

Overview of all episodes

№	Title	Air date
1	"Schulz & Schulz"	December 10, 1989
Walter Schulz, who lives in the German Democratic Republic, discovers by accident that his brother Wolfgang is alive in the other German state. He manages to meet him and they decide to take advantage of the obvious fact that they still resemble each other. They switch identities, only successively realising how much life in noth parts of Germany differs.
2	"Aller Anfang ist schwer"	March 31, 1991
Walter Schulz comes with his wife and his two children to Hamburg and his brother supports him while he is starting his own business. Yet Walter's former superior Guenther sabotages him by accusing him falsely of having been a Stasi Stasi The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered... informer
3	"Wechselspiele"	April 13, 1992
Both brothers are still struggling with their different past. Wolfgang is about to marry Britta and Walter is still struggling with Guenther's schemes
4	"Neue Welten, alte Lasten"	December 27, 1992
Wolfgang tries to convince Walter to become a politician in Stralsund but Walter resists because he is appalled that former Stasi employee Guenther is very successful in reunited Germany.
5	"Fünf vor zwölf "	December 22, 1993
While Walter becomes a pub owner his son happens to get under the influence of hooligans