A body staged on an Alpine pass, right where Germany meets Austria, forces two police departments that would rather not cooperate to work one case together. "Pagan Peak" builds its mystery on that friction as much as on the killings themselves.
What is Pagan Peak about?
The series opens with a gruesomely arranged corpse found on a mountain pass along the German-Austrian border, a discovery that pulls in detectives from both sides of the line. Ellie, the German investigator, is facing the first real test of her career, while her Austrian counterpart, Gedeon, appears to have lost most of his enthusiasm for police work. As more bodies surface in the weeks that follow, the two are pushed into an uneasy partnership, each carrying assumptions about the other's country, methods, and motives. The show leans on the region's dense forests and isolated villages for atmosphere, using the border itself as a kind of character: a line that splits jurisdiction, language, and procedure even as the case itself refuses to respect it. Across its eight episodes, "Pagan Peak" builds outward from the initial murder into a wider web of secrets held by the local community, without losing track of the two mismatched detectives at its center.
About the cast
Julia Jentsch plays the German detective Ellie, and Nicholas Ofczarek plays her Austrian counterpart Gedeon, with the two carrying most of the series' cross-border tension between them. The production draws on Austrian and German television traditions, giving the cast a naturalistic, unhurried register that suits the show's slow-burn pacing.
Context & significance
"Pagan Peak" is a joint Austrian-German production, and the setting is treated as more than backdrop: the Alpine border region shapes how the investigation unfolds, since two separate police systems, with separate chains of command, have to be reconciled scene by scene. That structural tension is part of what distinguishes the series from a more conventional single-jurisdiction crime drama, and it has helped the show build a strong critical reputation since its release.
Watching Pagan Peak on Ktime
"Pagan Peak" is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself is open to read without signing in. The series carries Persian dubbing as well as Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose to watch in Farsi or follow the original German and Austrian dialogue with Farsi subtitles, all inside K-Time's Farsi-language interface built for the Iranian diaspora.