Arthur's Law
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Arthur's Law |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2018 |
| Production company |
TNT Comedy , good friends film production |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| genre | Crime , comedy |
| Director | Christian Zübert |
| idea | Benjamin Gutsche |
| production |
Moritz von der Groeben , Nataly Kudiabor |
| music | Christoph Blaser |
| camera | Ngo The Chau |
| Initial release | August 31, 2018 on EntertainTV |
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Arthur's Law is a black comedy in series format by writer Benjamin Gutsche and director Christian Zübert . The main roles are Jan Josef Liefers as Arthur Ahnepol and Martina Gedeck seen in a double role as his wife Martha and her twin sister Muriel. The series is a joint production by TNT Comedy and good friends film production and is about a 50-year-old unemployed person who is unlucky and lives in a small town with his domineering wife Martha. The first publication took place on August 31, 2018 on EntertainTV , a portal of Telekom Deutschland .
action
The unemployed Arthur Ahnepol lives a bleak life with his wife Martha in the small town of Klein Biddenbach. He used to work in a sawmill, but then his dominant and shopaholic wife urged him to saw off his right hand in order to cheat the insurance company. However, he was captured by a camera and the fraud was exposed.
On his 50th birthday, Arthur meets the prostitute Jesse and falls in love with her. When her pimp shows up at Arthur's house, he and his wife kill him. Together with the policewoman Muriel, Martha's twin sister, they make the body disappear.
Arthur later devises a plan to kill his wife.
background
Originally only planned as a five-minute part of a series about urban legends , the lead author was then to write the pilot of an entire series. During his research, he found the story of a man who chopped off his hand for an insurance fraud. When writing, he says he was inspired by the Orange Is the New Black series .
The shooting took place from September 19, 2017 to February 16, 2018. The film was shot in Hof and Marktredwitz in the Fichtel Mountains , among others .
Reviews
Kathrin Hollmer writes on sueddeutsche.de that the series delivers "[with] brilliant pictures and a top-class cast [...] proof that sophisticated comedy noir also works in Germany" and reminds "of the dynamism of the first season of the US hit series Fargo In contrast, Oliver Kaever says on Spiegel Online that this comparison is “extremely high.” While the US model rose “in spheres of elementary, almost existential drama”, Arthur's law “got stuck in the stench of German staunchness”.
Web links
- Arthur Law in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Arthur's Law at serienjunkies.de
- Arthur's Law at crew-united.com
- Arthur's Law on EntertainTV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kathrin Hollmer: Durchaus krass , sueddeutsche.de, August 31, 2018, accessed on October 9, 2018
- ↑ Production data on Crew United , accessed October 9, 2018
- ↑ Information on the Telekom website , accessed on October 9, 2018
- ↑ Kathrin Hollmer: Durchaus krass , sueddeutsche.de, August 31, 2018, accessed on October 9, 2018
- ↑ Oliver Kaever: Abfalls des Allzumenschlichen , spiegel.de, August 31, 2018, accessed on October 9, 2018