A confession

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Television series
German title A confession
Original title A confession
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
year 2019
Production
company		 ITV studios
length 42 minutes
Episodes 6 in 1 season
genre Drama , crime thriller
Director Paul Andrew Williams
script Jeff Pope
production Tom Dunbar
First broadcast September 2, 2019 (United Kingdom) on ITV

First publication in German		 February 6, 2020 on MagentaTV
occupation
synchronization

A Confession (English for A Confession ) is a British crime drama - miniseries based on the true story of the murder of Sian O'Callaghan. The English premiere of the six-part season took place on September 2, 2019 on the British television station ITV . In Germany, it was published exclusively on MagentaTV , Deutsche Telekom's streaming service, on February 6, 2020 .

action

In Swindon in the south of England , where the girl Becca Godden-Edwards disappeared eight years ago, 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan is missing. Stephen Fulcher, who soon identifies taxi driver Christopher Halliwell as a suspect, is investigating the case. When he was taken into custody, Halliwell leads Fulcher to the location of Sian's corpse and offers to lead him to another corpse, which is why Fulcher fails to instruct him first and take him to the police station so that Halliwell could get a lawyer. Both bodies are found and identified as the missing girls.

Halliwell, who denies everything in the trial, is found guilty of the murder of Sian, but the confession regarding Becky Godden to Fulcher cannot be used against Halliwell. Fulcher is demoted and leaves the police force after a disciplinary hearing for violating the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE). Karen Edwards, Becky's mother, then campaigns for the PACE Act to be changed. Three years later, based on new evidence, Halliwell is tried for the murder of Becky, and Fulcher also testifies against him.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director Martin Westphal by the Interopa film in Berlin.

role description actor Voice actor
Stephen Fulcher Superintendent Martin Freeman Manuel Straube
Elaine Pickford Sian's mother Siobhan Finneran Andrea Aust
Karen Edwards Becky's mother Imelda Staunton Karin David
Charlie Edwards Karen's husband Peter Wight Wolfgang Müller
Christopher Halliwell Perpetrator Joe Absolom Matthias Deutelmoser
Kevin Reape Sian's friend Charlie Cooper
Yvonne Fulcher Stephen's wife Kate Ashfield Antje von der Ahe

background

ITV announced the order for the series on October 15, 2018. A Confession is based on a real crime case from 2011. Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher processed his experience of the case in the book Catching A Serial Killer , which Jeff Pope used as the basis for the script. The series was filmed on the real setting in Wiltshire . Paul Andrew Williams directed all six episodes. Pope and Freeman consulted with the real Fulcher before shooting; Pope also met the families of both victims. He said, "If [they] didn't want me to do it, I wouldn't have done it."

publication

A Confession aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from September 2 to October 7, 2019 . In Germany, all six episodes have been available on MagentaTV since February 6, 2020 . On May 12, 2020, the series was released on the North American streaming service Britbox for British series. Prior to this, Variety is hosting a screening of the first episode with a virtual chat with Freeman and director Andrew in the virtual Variety Streaming Room on May 6, which was the first screening of a series in the Variety Streaming Room.

reception

A Confession became one of the UK's most successful series in 2019, averaging 6.6 million viewers.

Lucy Mangan from the Guardian awards four out of five stars and particularly praises the outstanding cast. She writes of screenwriter Jeff Pope that instead of writing a narrative of male heroism, he honors the experiences of those who witnessed the events. In their conclusion, the series is "a sad, relentless dramatization of relentlessly sad events that [...] asks profound questions about how we want and should achieve justice for the murdered and missing."

Kevin Hennings for DWDL.de writes that the series made the best of a scenario that has been told all too often, and that it was better than expected. She “does not go with the trend of telling such a crime with quick cuts and rapid progression of the story. Time is taken to properly stage the pain of this voluminous story. That won't keep everyone happy, but it will keep those who are genuinely interested in the 2011 event. ”The team reveals an honest and sad picture of an absurd search, which later also raises profound questions:“ What is justice and how can and should it be obtained for missing and murdered people? "A Confession" is less entertainment than high-quality television about how we should question our moral ideas. "

Elisa Britzelmeier reviews for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the series initially feels like a mediocre crime scene , but it pays not to give up too quickly because of the outstanding actors and actresses, but above all because of the way the suffering is told. “The families are slowly becoming aware that they will never see their daughters again. Not only the investigator's dilemma becomes noticeable. But also how such losses feel. That they may never be overcome. That makes the series so sad and harrowing. And so strong. "

Matthias Hannemann writes for the FAZ that the series is changing from a police drama to a justice and character drama. “Now Vanessa Whyte's handheld camera pays off: We are right in the middle of it instead of just being there. The extremely calm narrative tempo also gives the series the space it needs to study the emotional states that protagonists such as Karen and Fulcher or Sian's mother Elaine ( Siobhan Finneran ) experience. ”The greatest pound of the series is the acting skills of Imelda Staunton and Martin Freeman , who "even turns toothbrushing scenes into snapshots of his inner life - and shows his crumpled hobbit look whenever we begin to understand Fulcher's critics."

Nominations

British Academy Television Award 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A Confession. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ ITV commissions six-part drama, A Confession, starring Martin Freeman and Imelda Staunton . In: ITV . October 15, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b A Confession . In: Telekom . Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ Eleanor Bley Griffiths: How did the real DI Steve Fulcher and the victims' families help shape ITV drama A Confession? . In: RadioTimes . September 30, 2019. Accessed July 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ Ralf Döbbele: "A Confession": Martin Freeman crime thriller celebrates its German premiere in February . In: fernsehserien.de . January 12, 2020. Accessed July 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ Carissa Pavlica: What to Watch: The Rookie, The Flash, and Outlander Conclude; A Confession and The Great Premiere . In: TVFanatic . May 9, 2020. Accessed July 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ Variety Streaming Room to Host Virtual Screening and Q&A With Martin Freeman & Paul Andrew Williams of BritBox's 'A Confession' . In: Variety . April 24, 2020. Accessed July 4, 2020.
  8. ↑ Lucy Mangan: A Confession review - a profoundly sad drama about suffering, strength and justice . In: The Guardian . September 2, 2019. Accessed February 13, 2020.
  9. ↑ Kevin Hennings: "A Confession": Where does morality begin and where does it end? . In: DWDL.de . February 6, 2020. Accessed July 4, 2020.
  10. ↑ Elisa Britzelmeier: Not a "typically shocked family" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 16, 2020. Accessed July 4, 2020.
  11. ↑ Matthias Hannemann: Was he allowed to do the right thing illegally? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 10, 2020. Retrieved April 202007.
  12. ↑ BAFTA TV 2020: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy TV Craft Awards . In: BAFTA . Retrieved July 4, 2020.