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Netflix’s Sleeping Dog (Schlafende Hunde) is an original German limited series that features a talented cast. Written by Christoph Darnstädt, this six-episode crime thriller follows the story of a fallen cop with amnesia who teams up with a rookie prosecutor to investigate a supposedly closed and solved murder case. The further they find themselves in the case the more they realize how entrenched it is in a conspiracy within the police department and the justice system, endangering them. Netflix’s Sleeping Dog is based on the 2016 Israeli series The Exchange Principle (Ikaron HaHachlafa) by Noah Stallman and Oden Davidoff.

This is Netflix’s second collaboration with Real Film Berlin, their first being the critically acclaimed limited series Unorthodox, which was adapted from a real-life story. While the six tumultuous episodes are full of gripping and moving storylines, much praise has also gone to the talented cast, who have all...

Netflix is back with an original German 6-part series based on a Hebrew show titled The Exchange Principle. Each episode is one hour long with a lot going on, and sometimes the details are too much to handle. Read our full review to know more if you haven’t seen it yet! Sleeping Dog follows a rundown cop who has left his family and is living as a homeless person after going through a terrible traumatic incident. When we begin the series, it has been eight months since Atlas left his wife and daughter, and he’s regaining certain memories about a trial that may have gone way wrong. He begins to question his involvement and unravel a much larger mystery.

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Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘Sleeping Dog’?

A man named Mussa Basher is found dead in his prison cell. It appears he has slit his wrists with a blade.