

52 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestRauchensteiner gets lucky. Even a wedding is coming up. For security reasons, Kralicek organizes a doppelganger for the new patriarch Jakob.
A family, blessed with richness and power, is desperately seeking for a liver for their father, who wants to hand down his wealth to the one who gets the organ.
Acting
Udo Kier's deathbed malevolence — nobody does dying villain like him.
Direction
Schalko's cold, clinical eye turns family dinners into autopsies.
Production
Crime-scene sterile estates that scream old money suffocation.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Austrian TV's answer to Succession, but meaner and more surgical — literally. Schalko adapted his own novel, keeping the clinical detachment that makes the wealth feel contagious.
Udo Kier spent hours in prosthetic makeup daily despite having only ~15 minutes of screen time per episode — he insisted on being fully transformed even for distant shots.