| Starring: | Francis Fulton-Smith |
| Country: | Germany |
Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell ("Your Mission, Father Castell") is a German television series.[1] In the series criminal cases are shown in which the Church and the police have to work together, given a pastor of the Catholic Church in Germany is not allowed to investigate alone. The English title of the series The Fifth Commandment is a translation of the original working title.
Monsignor Simon Castell is a Jesuit who is specially commissioned by the Vatican to solve criminal cases all over the world, always in connection with the Church.[2] Father Castell therefore has to acquire a wide variety of skills, such as flying aeroplanes, opening locked locks and doors, learning self-defence and even repairing motorbikes.[3]
| Actor | Role | Episodes (number 1 to 14) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pater Simon Castell | 1–14 | ||
| Christine Döring | Marie Blank | 1–14 | Police commissioner |
| Hans Peter Hallwachs | Kardinal Scarpia | 1–14 | |
| Maja Celiné Probst | Lisa Blank | 1–10 | Marie's daughter |
| Franziska Blank | 1–10 | Marie's mother | |
| Dr. Jens Deißmann | 1–4 | ||
| Ercan Durmaz | 5–14 |
To accompany the 1st season, ZDF broadcast 4 so-called webisodes in the channel's own media library, short stories in which the Father's back story is told and how he was trained as a special agent.
Each episode has a duration of 45 min and had 3 seasons (for a total of 14 episodes) between 2008 and 2010.[4]
The series has been described as very popular[5] [6] [7] [8] and called "James Bond in cassock" by the Frankfurter Allgemeine.[9]