Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast
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Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast (English
: "Behind bars - The Women's Prison", in short: HG or HiGi) was a German
television series in the form of a soap opera and told the dramaturgically oversubscribed-life in a prison for women. The series was broadcast from September 22, 1997 until February 13, 2007 at the private broadcaster RTL. The acts played in the fictional prison for women, Reutlitz in Berlin and included lesbian love affairs, drug deals, escape attempts, conflicts with sadistic prison guards, as well as crimes such as murder.
RTL
decided to cancel the long running drama after 16 seasons and 403 episodes. The last nine episodes were transmitted during the night at 01.05 AM.
A Turkish
adaption, Parmaklıklar Ardında (Behind Bars) is filmed in Sinop
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
: "Behind bars - The Women's Prison", in short: HG or HiGi) was a German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
television series in the form of a soap opera and told the dramaturgically oversubscribed-life in a prison for women. The series was broadcast from September 22, 1997 until February 13, 2007 at the private broadcaster RTL. The acts played in the fictional prison for women, Reutlitz in Berlin and included lesbian love affairs, drug deals, escape attempts, conflicts with sadistic prison guards, as well as crimes such as murder.
RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...
decided to cancel the long running drama after 16 seasons and 403 episodes. The last nine episodes were transmitted during the night at 01.05 AM.
A Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
adaption, Parmaklıklar Ardında (Behind Bars) is filmed in Sinop
Sinop Fortress Prison
Sinop Fortress Prison, was a state prison situated in the inside of the Sinop Fortress in Sinop, Turkey. As one of the oldest prisons of Turkey, it was established in 1887 within the inner fortress of the centuries-old fortification located on the northwestern part of Cape Sinop...
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