DANGER ZONE
TV & Satellite Week|April 22, 2023
A gritty thriller explores racism in East Germany as communism crumbles…
NATASHA HOLT, RICHARD MCCLURE, CAREN CLARK
DANGER ZONE

Disney +

Sam – A Saxon

NEW 

Available: Wednesday 26 April 

Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 7

Based on a true story, new German-language series Sam – A Saxon stars Malick Bauer as Sam Meffire, who was the first black policeman in East Germany but whose meteoric rise to fame was followed by a spectacular fall from grace.

In Disney+’s drama, we first meet aspiring footballer Sam as he’s living with his girlfriend Antje (Luise von Finckh) in a flatshare in East Germany in the last year of the communist regime.

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