Perfume
The Süskind novel reworked as a present-day murder case among former boarding-school pupils.
One opening sequence is catalogued for Perfume, covering season 1.
It arrived on ZDFneo in 2018, when Mystery Science Theater 3000, Arrested Development and Top Boy were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip verified. Searching the German Vorspann returns ZDFneo's own promotional shorts for the series and nothing else. The only other result runs far longer than the broadcast open and could not be confirmed.
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