The Night Manager
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Night Manager |
| Original title | The Night Manager |
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| Country of production | United Kingdom , United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2016 |
| Production company |
The Ink Factory, BBC , AMC |
| length | 60 (BBC) or 45 (international) minutes |
| Episodes | 6 (BBC) or 8 (international) in 1+ seasons |
| genre | thriller |
| Director | Susanne beer |
| script | David Farr , John le Carré |
| production | Rob Bullock |
| music | Victor Reyes |
| camera | Michael Snyman |
| First broadcast | February 21, 2016 (UK) on BBC One |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 28, 2016 on Amazon Video |
| occupation | |
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The Night Manager is a British - American thriller - miniseries based on the novel The night manager of John le Carré . The plot revolves around the night manager of a hotel who is assigned by the British intelligence service to an international arms dealer . The first broadcast was broadcasted by BBC One in 6 episodes of 60 minutes each from February 21 to March 27, 2016. The German-language first broadcast took place on March 28, 2016 on Amazon Video in 8 episodes of 45 minutes. In advance, two episodes were shown on February 18, 2016 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival .
action
At the time of the Arab Spring in January 2011, the Briton Jonathan Pine worked as a night manager in a luxury hotel in Cairo . Sophie Alekan, the lover of Freddie Hamids, a member of a powerful Egyptian family clan, gives the hotel manager copies of some explosive documents for her safety, which prove an illegal arms deal between the Hamid clan and a British businessman named Richard Onslow Roper. Pine recognizes the explosiveness of the documents and passes them on to the British embassy. But the British authorities do not intervene. Instead, Roper receives a warning about the betrayal. A short time later, Sophie is murdered.
Four years later, Pine works as a night manager in a Swiss hotel. He has still not got over the death of Sophie, which he came close to before she was murdered. One night, the man whose name he heard four years earlier in Cairo is staying at his hotel: Richard Onslow Roper. In his wake is his young lover Jed Marshall, whom Pine is instantly fascinated by. The night manager turns to the British authorities again, but this time he reaches Angela Burr directly, the head of a small, newly established department that competes with MI6 , which has long been trying to put an end to the arms dealer Roper against political resistance.
Burr developed the idea of infiltrating Pine into Roper's inner circle as an informant. He is given a false identity that makes him appear as a criminal in hiding without scruples. He wins Roper's trust by thwarting a fictitious kidnapping of his son. After several doubts about Roper's close colleague Major Corkoran, he himself rises to the arms dealer’s right hand. He discovers that employees of the British State Department and MI6 are on Roper's payroll, whereupon Burr and her American counterpart Steadman continue the mission, bypassing the intelligence services of their countries. But when an alleged arms deal turns out to be a harmless grain delivery when the American military seizes it, both are disempowered.
Burr plans to pull Pine after he begins a love affair with Jed that is about to be discovered, but Pine does not want to give up the mission. He sends Burr a message that a new arms deal is planned in Cairo. He meets Freddie Hamid in his old hotel and kills him after learning that Sophie's murder was actually arranged by Roper. Meanwhile, Jed has been exposed as a traitor and tortured. Pine is exposed as a traitor, but still thwarts the arms deal with a violent detonation. Burr and Steadman intervene and arrest Roper. He remains calm and expects his early release due to his contacts in the highest political circles. But when he is taken away, he ends up in the hands of his Arab trading partners, whom he previously insulted badly and whose down payment for the weapons in the amount of 300 million dollars he cannot repay after their destruction and a secret transfer by Pine, and leaves one towards uncertain fate. After one last carefree night with Pine, Jed travels home to her family, while Pine stays at the Cairo hotel.
production
The series was broadcast on free TV in German-speaking countries in August and September 2016. A special cut version with smaller cuts was used, which consists of only three episodes in feature length. On Swiss television, the series was broadcast on SRF 1 on three consecutive Saturdays from August 27, 2016, in Austria on ORF one on three Sundays from August 28, 2016 and on German television on ZDF from August 29, 2016 on three consecutive Mondays .
As in the films Dame, König, As, Spion and A Most Wanted Man , author John le Carré can be seen in a cameo . In an argument in a seafood restaurant, he plays a guest who has to be appeased by Tom Hiddleston.
reception
Reviews
In the UK, the series received positive reviews after it aired. Kevin O'Sullivan even spoke of "one of the greatest series of all time" in The Sun. According to Archie Bland in The Guardian , The Night Manager is "as pimped up as a TV series can be" and has "true international stars" in its two leading roles, Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. John le Carré called it an "unexpected miracle" after two film adaptations of the novel had previously failed. Only the length of the six-hour TV series does justice to the book for le Carré's biographer Adam Sisman in The Daily Telegraph .
The German-language reviews were also mostly positive. David Denk describes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung "an adaptation that is as contemporary as it is stylish". For Hannah Pilarczyk in Spiegel Online , the series is “more likely to take the pleasant glamor route” than, for example, Tomas Alfredson's dark agent film Dame, König, As, Spion , but it is a “high-gloss production that enjoys its great ensemble and its production values […] have fun".
Comparisons with James Bond have been drawn several times. Anna Meinecke on n-tv sees a "test run for 007" in the series for the main actor Tom Hiddleston. For Christian Alt on BR Puls , the series wants “to be as cool as James Bond, but drives with the handbrake on all the time.” After a few episodes, however, the series pulls in and develops “into the big hit announced”. For Sabine Horst in epd Film, on the other hand, “the Bond clichés in particular […] become doomed”, because they do not suit an adversary who does not join the ranks of “comic villains” but threatens children with poison gas.
Awards (selection)
Critics' Choice Television Awards Dec. 2016
- Nomination in the category of best television film or best miniseries
- Nomination for Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries ( Tom Hiddleston )
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries ( Hugh Laurie )
- Nomination for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries ( Olivia Colman )
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries ( Elizabeth Debicki )
Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2016
- Award for Best Main Theme in a TV Series - Digital Streaming Series ( Victor Reyes )
- Nomination for Best Miniseries
- Nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries ( Tom Hiddleston )
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries ( Hugh Laurie )
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries ( Olivia Colman )
- Nomination in the category Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television (Tom Hiddleston)
- Award in the category Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture made for Television (Olivia Colman)
- Nomination in the category Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture made for Television (Hugh Laurie)
- Nomination in the Best Miniseries or TV Movie category
- Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie (Tom Hiddleston)
- Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie (Hugh Laurie)
- Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or TV Movie (Olivia Colman)
synchronization
The German dubbed version was produced under the direction of Antares Film GmbH, Berlin, based on the dialogue book by Ulrich Johannson , who also directed the dialogue .
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Hiddleston | Jonathan Pine | Peter Lontzek |
| Hugh Laurie | Richard Onslow Roper | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Olivia Colman | Angela Burr | Marina Krogull |
| Tom Hollander | Lance Corkoran | Axel Malzacher |
| Elizabeth Debicki | Jed | Nadine Zaddam |
| Alistair Petrie | Sandy Langbourne | Peter Flechtner |
| Natasha Little | Caroline Langbourne | Heath Domanowski |
| Douglas Hodge | Rex Mayhew | Jörg Hengstler |
| David Harewood | Joel Steadman | Thomas Schmuckert |
| Tobias Menzies | Geoffrey Dromgoole | Jaron Lowenberg |
| Antonio de la Torre | Juan Apostol | Gerald Schaale |
| Adeel Akhtar | Rob Singhal | Tobias Lelle |
| Michael Nardone | Frisky | Sascha Gluth |
| Hovik Keuchkerian | Tabby | Andreas Conrad |
| Noah Jupe | Daniel Roper | Oliver Szerkus |
| David Avery | Freddie Hamid | Samir Fox |
| Aure Atika | Sophie Alekan | Anna Grisebach |
| Russell Tovey | Simon Ogilvey | Michael Baral |
| Neil Morrissey | Harry Palfrey | Matthias Klages |
| Marta Torné | Mercedes | Janin Stenzel |
continuation
At the beginning of March 2017, Susanne Bier announced that the scripts for a second season were being worked on. But these would have to come close to the quality of the first in order to actually be produced.
Web links
- The Night Manager at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Night Manager at the BBC .
- Filming locations: From Marrakech to Mallorca
Individual evidence
- ^ The Night Manager at the Berlin International Film Festival 2016 .
- ↑ Movie starts: Loki vs. Dr. House now also on free TV: "The Night Manager" starts on ZDF . In: FILMSTARTS.de . ( filmstarts.de [accessed on March 27, 2017]).
- ↑ Spy thriller takes place in Zermatt | Zermatt Meetings & Incentives . In: Zermatt Meetings & Incentives . ( zermatt.ch [accessed on March 27, 2017]).
- ↑ Adam Sisman: The Night Manager: le Carré's 'unexpected miracle' . In: The Daily Telegraph, February 19, 2016.
- ^ "One of the greatest series of all time". In: Kevin O'Sullivan: The Night Manager finale review: Beeb's stunningly lavish production is to be admired at all costs . In: The Sun of March 28, 2016.
- ^ "The Night Manager is as sexed up as television drama comes. In Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie it has bona fide international stars ”. In: Archie Bland: The Night Manager recap: episode one - as sexy and sumptuous as TV gets . In: The Guardian of February 21, 2016.
- ↑ Adam Sisman: The Night Manager: le Carré's 'unexpected miracle' . In: The Daily Telegraph, February 19, 2016.
- ↑ David Denk: Lonely Spy . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 28, 2016.
- ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk Thriller Series "The Night Manager": "Seduction and Repulsion" . In: Spiegel Online from March 29, 2016.
- ↑ Anna Meinecke "The Night Manager" takes revenge . In: n-tv from March 28, 2016.
- ^ Christian Alt: Dr. House is a gun dealer now . In: BR Puls from March 30, 2016.
- ↑ Sabine Horst: Series tip: “The Night Manager” and “London Spy” . In: epd film from March 25, 2016.
- ↑ 22nd Annual Critics' Choice Awards In: criticschoice.com. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
- ↑ Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2016 - Winners In: soundtrackfest.com, November 19, 2016.
- ↑ Emmys 2016: The Full List of Nominations In: The Hollywood Reporter, July 14, 2016.
- ↑ Jazz Tangcay: Satellite Nominations Announced In: awardsdaily.com, November 29, 2016.
- ↑ Precursor: 21st Satellite Awards In: cinemasight.com. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- ↑ a b The Night Manager. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 21, 2019 .
- ↑ The Night Manager - Susanne Bier is working on the second season . In: moviepilot.de . March 8, 2017 ( moviepilot.de [accessed May 26, 2020]).