Borgia (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Borgia |
| Country of production |
Germany France Italy Austria Czech Republic |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2011-2014 |
| Production company |
Atlantique Productions EOS Entertainment ETIC Films Les Borgia SAS Canal + ZDF ORF |
| length | approx. 52 minutes |
| Episodes | 38 in 3 seasons |
| genre | Historical drama |
| idea | Tom Fontana |
| music |
Cyril Morin (Season 1) Éric Neveux (Seasons 2 and 3) |
| camera | Ousama Rawi |
| First broadcast | July 10, 2011 on Sky Italia |
| German-language first broadcast |
October 13, 2011 on ORF 2 |
| occupation | |
Borgia is an internationally co-produced television series that was co-financed by ZDF and ORF , among others . At the center of the action is the Borgia family and their head of the family Rodrigo Borgia , who as Pope Alexander VI. got known. The series is a competing product for the US television series The Borgias with Jeremy Irons in the lead role.
action
In the summer of 1492 , Pope Innocent VIII is dying. Many cardinals are eager to succeed him. When the Spaniard Rodrigo Borgia came to the chair of Peter through corruption, he gave his children Cesare , Juan and Lucrezia high offices. From now on, murder, rape and intrigue are part of everyday life within the walls of the Vatican .
main characters
The power-hungry Cardinal Borgia weaves a web of intrigues to achieve his ultimate goal: to become Pope. The father of several children from different women succeeds in this, and he climbs as Alexander VI. the Holy See.
Vanozza was Rodrigo's mistress for more than ten years and bore him several children. Even after Rodrigo turned to younger women, both are still close.
Rodrigo Borgia forges grandiose plans for the future of his firstborn with Vanozza Cattanei, but without realizing his weaknesses: Juan is a proud, lazy and unscrupulous womanizer.
Rodrigo's and Vanozza's intelligent and charming second-born son, contrary to his nature, was forced into a clerical career by his father. He constantly fights against his outbreaks of violence. He adores his little sister Lucrezia and would do everything in his power for her, even if he can't prevent his father from using her shamelessly for political purposes.
Rodrigo's and Vanozza's beloved daughter is nevertheless used by the father as a pawn in his power politics and married in various political alliances. She and her brother Cesare share a strange, intimate and all-encompassing love.
The young Giulia, married to Orsino Orsini Migliorati, is Rodrigo's lover and his great passion. After he becomes Pope, she gains great power through her influence over him.
Adriana, Orsino Orsini Migliorati's mother, is Giulia's mother-in-law, confidante of Alexander and Lucrezia's foster mother, and she watches over her reputation closely. She is in conflict with Vanozza and becomes entangled in intrigues in the Vatican.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was carried out by the Berliner Synchron AG Wenzel Lüdecke based on a dialogue book by Jürgen Neu, who also directed the dialogue.
Main cast
Secondary Cast (Season 1)
Secondary Cast (Season 2)
The following actors only appeared in Season 2:
Production and broadcast
With a production budget of 25 million euros and six months of filming, the first season, consisting of 12 episodes, was shot between October 2010 and April 2011 in Telč and in the Barrandov Studios in Prague . Citizens from 18 different countries took part behind the scenes and in front of the camera. It is one of the most expensive European television series of all time.
The series was produced by Atlantique Productions, EOS Entertainment GmbH, in collaboration with Etic Films and Les Borgia SAS, in coproduction with ZDF, ORF and Canal +. The shooting language was English. The producer and screenwriter is Tom Fontana, and Oliver Hirschbiegel was also directed by Metin Hüseyin, Dearbhla Walsh and Christoph Schrewe. In addition to numerous sources, scriptwriter Fontana used, among other things, the notes of the chronicler Johannes Burckard when writing the screenplay.
In March 2012, the broadcasters involved agreed to produce a second season. On November 7, 2012, after 140 days of shooting in the medieval old town of Monselice, the shooting of the second season ended, the six episodes of which were broadcast from the end of September 2013. Moving the shooting from the Czech Republic to Italy in the second season increased production costs by 5 million euros to around 30 million euros. The action of the second season begins in 1497 .
On May 27, 2013 it was announced that the series will have a third and also final season. The 12 episodes were shot between May 2013 and January 2014.
The most important actors in the third season include the German Rolf Kanies as Lorenz Beheim , Michael Byrne in the role of Lucrezia's father-in-law Ercole I. d'Este or Marc Pickering as Ippolito I. d'Este . The Czech actor Adam Mišík , who played Jofré Borgia in the first two seasons of the series, no longer showed any interest in his role. The role had to be filled again. In the third season, the Italian actor and newcomer Niccolò Besio embodies the youngest son of Pope Alexander VI.
German-speaking area
The German-language first broadcasting rights have been secured by ORF, which will show the series in six parts from October 13, 2011 in feature length (100 min each) in the late evening program on ORF 2 . ZDF began broadcasting on October 17, 2011, also as a 6-part show, but in prime time from 8:15 p.m. Since some episodes of the series have an FSK approval from 16 or even 18 years, the TV broadcasts on ZDF have been censored. Not only were sex and violence scenes defused, but normal action scenes were also partially removed. A total of 58 minutes was not shown in the television version of Borgia .
The broadcast of the second season of the historical series began on ZDF on September 30, 2013, again at prime time at 8:15 p.m. Due to very poor ratings, the series was moved to a later broadcasting slot from the fourth episode of the second season.
The ORF began broadcasting the 2nd season a week earlier, on September 25, 2013 on ORF 2.
Due to the poor audience ratings of the first two seasons, both ZDF and ORF have so far not broadcast the third and final season. However, since February 22, 2016, the third season can be seen online on Amazon Video . In addition, this, as well as a complete box containing all seasons, appeared on DVD and Bluray Disc on September 1, 2016.
International
Beta Film has sold the series so far in almost 40 countries, including Italy, Spain, Russia, Japan and Latin and North America. The first broadcast took place in Italy on the pay-TV channel Sky Cinema 1. The first two episodes were shown in a pre-premiere on July 10, 2011; normal broadcasting began on September 2, 2011. In France, the series has been broadcast on Canal + since October 10th.
Episode list
First season
| No. | Original title | German title | Director | First broadcast ( Sky Italia ) |
No. | First broadcast on ORF 2 |
First broadcast on ZDF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1492 | 1492 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | July 10, 2011 | 1 | October 13, 2011 | 17th October 2011 |
| 2 | Ondata di Calore | The heat wave | Oliver Hirschbiegel | July 10, 2011 | |||
| 3 | A Sacred Vow | A holy vow | Oliver Hirschbiegel | September 9, 2011 | 2 | October 14, 2011 | October 19, 2011 |
| 4th | Wisdom of the Holy Spirit | The wisdom of the holy spirit | Oliver Hirschbiegel | September 9, 2011 | |||
| 5 | The Bonds of Matrimony | The bond of marriage | Dearbhla Walsh | September 16, 2011 | 3 | October 19, 2011 | October 20, 2011 |
| 6th | Legitimacy | legitimacy | Dearbhla Walsh | September 16, 2011 | |||
| 7th | Maneuvers | Chess moves | Metin Huseyin | September 23, 2011 | 4th | October 21, 2011 | October 24, 2011 |
| 8th | Prelude to an Apocalypse | Harbingers of the Apocalypse | Metin Huseyin | September 23, 2011 | |||
| 9 | The Invasion of Rome | The invasion of Rome | Christoph Schrewe | September 30, 2011 | 5 | October 24, 2011 | October 26, 2011 |
| 10 | Miracles | wonder | Christoph Schrewe | September 30, 2011 | |||
| 11 | God's monster | God's monster | Metin Huseyin | October 7, 2011 | 6th | October 25, 2011 | October 27, 2011 |
| 12 | The Serpent Rises | The snake rises | Metin Huseyin | October 7, 2011 |
Second season
| No. | Original title | German title | Director | First broadcast ( Canal + ) |
No. | First broadcast on ORF 2 |
First broadcast on ZDF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | The Time Of Sweet Desires | The time of sweet desire | Dearbhla Walsh | March 18, 2013 | 7th | September 25, 2013 | September 30th, 2013 |
| 14th | Ash Wednesday | Ash Wednesday | Dearbhla Walsh | March 18, 2013 | |||
| 15th | Palm Sunday | Palm Sunday | Christoph Schrewe | March 25.2013 | 8th | September 27, 2013 | October 1, 2013 |
| 16 | Pax Vobiscum | Pax Vobiscum | Christoph Schrewe | March 25.2013 | |||
| 17th | Ascension | Ascension of Christ | Metin Huseyin | April 1, 2013 | 9 | October 1, 2013 | 3rd October 2013 |
| 18th | Pentecost | Pentecost | Metin Huseyin | April 1, 2013 | |||
| 19th | The Blessed Trinity | The Holy Trinity | Thomas Vincent | April 8, 2013 | 10 | 2nd October 2013 | October 7, 2013 |
| 20th | A morality play | A mystery game | Thomas Vincent | April 8, 2013 | |||
| 21st | Transfiguration | The Transfiguration of Christ | Metin Huseyin | April 15, 2013 | 11 | 3rd October 2013 | October 9, 2013 |
| 22nd | The Assumption | Assumption Day | Metin Huseyin | April 15, 2013 | |||
| 23 | The Seven Sorrows | The Sorrows of Mary | Christoph Schrewe | April 22, 2013 | 12 | October 7, 2013 | October 13, 2013 |
| 24 | Who Is Like God? | Who is like God? | Christoph Schrewe | April 22, 2013 |
Third season
| No. | Original title | German title | Director | First broadcast ( Canal + ) |
No. | First broadcast on ORF 2 |
First broadcast on ZDF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | 1495 | Christoph Schrewe | 15th September 2014 | 13 | |||
| 26th | 1496 | Christoph Schrewe | 15th September 2014 | ||||
| 27 | 1497 | Christoph Schrewe | 22nd September 2014 | 14th | |||
| 28 | 1498 | Metin Huseyin | 22nd September 2014 | ||||
| 29 | 1499 | Metin Huseyin | 29th September 2014 | 15th | |||
| 30th | 1500 | Metin Huseyin | 29th September 2014 | ||||
| 31 | 1501 | Athina Rachel Tsangari | October 6, 2014 | 16 | |||
| 32 | 1502 | Athina Rachel Tsangari | October 6, 2014 | ||||
| 33 | 1503, Part One | Metin Huseyin | October 13, 2014 | 17th | |||
| 34 | 1503, Part Two | Metin Huseyin | October 13, 2014 | ||||
| 35 | 1504 | Metin Huseyin | 20th October 2014 | 18th | |||
| 36 | 1505 | Christoph Schrewe | 20th October 2014 | ||||
| 37 | 1506 | Christoph Schrewe | October 27, 2014 | 19th | |||
| 38 | 1507 | Christoph Schrewe | October 27, 2014 |
Publications
Borgia was released on DVD in both three parts (first part on October 21; second part on October 28 and third part on November 17, 2011); On December 1, 2011, the entire season was also released in a "Directors Cut" FSK-18 version on DVD and Blu-ray.
Historical deviations
Although the series adheres to historical circumstances and events in many details, Tom Fontana still takes some artistic freedom. For example, Juan is portrayed as the eldest son in the series, although historians today agree that he must have been younger than Cesare.
Further examples:
- At the end of the 15th century, the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was not yet completed.
- Pedro-Luis Borgia died in 1488, not until 1492, and Juan did not stay with him in Valencia at the time, but only traveled to Spain for the first time after Rodrigo was elected Pope.
- Cesare was actually said to have had an affair with the Roman courtesan Fiammetta Michaelis, but later than portrayed in the series (around 1500), and there is no evidence that he had a child with her and sacrificed it.
- Cesare was never hostage or sexually abused by the Colonnas.
- Rodrigo did not legitimize his children during Cesare's appointment as cardinal, but at different times before and after.
- Juan's wife Maria Enriquez never set foot in Italy, she lived with him in Spain - her abuse by Juan and her escape are made up.
- There is no evidence that Lucrezia fell in love with Alfonso d'Este before marrying him , let alone had ever met him before.
- After the death of Friedrich III. his son Maximilian is repeatedly mentioned as "Kaiser". In fact, Maximilian was “Roman King” even before his father's death, but was only crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1508 with the consent of Pope Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere).
- Migliorati's attack on Giulia and Adriana's exile for helping him are invented.
- When Pope Alexander VI. in the film the dividing line between Portugal and Spain according to para. 6 the bull “Inter caetera divinae” dated May 4, 1493 draws a compass on a map, it looks as if he knows that he is also assigning a part of South America to Portugal. In reality, in the bull the dividing line was arbitrarily drawn 100 miles west of the Azores. The coast of Brazil was only discovered by the Portuguese navigator Cabral in 1500.
- At the time of the 1492 conclave there was no German cardinal who could have attended.
- Cesare Borgia reports to his father that the German king ( Friedrich III ) died during a leg amputation. That's not true. This amputation took place on June 10, 1493 and was successful. Friedrich III. died on August 19, 1493 of an acute illness unrelated to the operation.
- The Laocoon group was only discovered during excavation work in 1506, three years after the death of Alexander VI, who thus never saw the work of art. Laocoon is also shown with a kinked right arm, a reconstruction that only took place in the 20th century.
- Giulia and Alexander VI's daughter, Laura (Orsini), was born in 1492, not - as shown in the series - during the French occupation of Rome in 1495.
- There is no boy Ferdinand von Habsburg who called on his uncle Maximilian I to go to the Pope. The first Habsburg to bear the name Ferdinand was Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand I (1503–1564)
- In the series, a consistory is shown in which Alexander VI. simultaneously created five men of the Borgia family as cardinals, including his great-nephew Juan de Borja Llançol de Romaní . This is intended to weaken the opposition of the other cardinals. This consistory never took place like this. Two of the men are fictional. Alexander raised several of his family members to the rank of cardinal during his pontificate, but never at the same time. (see also: List of the cardinal creations of Alexander VI. ) The consistory also took place in February 1496; in the series, however, it's at least spring.
- Some of the events of the second season have been adapted more flexibly. According to various press releases, this begins in 1497. Immediately afterwards, Lucrezia gives birth to her son Giovanni. The birth of Giovanni, however, did not take place until 1498. In the series after that, the consistory takes place in which Juan de Borja Llançol de Romaní is created cardinal. At that time, however, he had been cardinal for at least two years, since 1496. Alexander VI. tries, one assumes the year 1498 as the year in the series to marry Lucrezia with the still young Henry VIII of England. Lucrezia does not agree to this political liaison and refers to Heinrich's age of three. However, the historic Henry VIII was seven years old in 1498.
Reviews
"The ZDF shows the godfather drama 'Borgia' for 600 minutes about sex, lies and murder in the Vatican during the Renaissance period - but because of its fixation on intrigues that seem too modern, the imposing series hardly does justice to the epoch shown."
“With all the laudable reluctance to face the temptations to sex and splatter inherent in this material, Fontana is also caught in the web of the medium: his fateful tendency towards the surface; in other words: its inability to pursue contradictions and breaks, simultaneities and displacements, variants and misrepresentations of history. But only then does she really become the "teacher of life" for us. "
“And yet this often gruesome dance of intrigues, sex, lust for power and the borrowed pomp of a long-forgotten epoch is great television cinema. Although not very many details correspond to the historical truth, this almost surreal Renaissance nightmare creates a not so false image of the decades at the end of the Middle Ages, when Columbus discovered the New World and the secularity of the Roman Church Martin Luther was the impetus for the split of the Una Sancta. "
“The power politics of the Italian city-states are fanned out in 'Borgia' as meticulously as the character of Cesare, but given the juicy 'private scenes', the instruction about the geopolitical situation looks like the famous fig leaf. A bit of a bigot comes from this displayed diligence with which the audience is served the history of the Renaissance in the public-law version as a noble struggle for an authentic representation. "
Web links
- Borgia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of BetaFilm
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Sturm: Without scruples. Murderous clan: "Borgias". In: TV Spielfilm , October 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d Borgia . German dubbing files . Retrieved September 28, 2011.
- ↑ a b "Borgia" from October 13th on ORF 2. International historical spectacle with ORF participation. ( Memento from November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: kundendienst.orf.at. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ Story on TV: The Pope has a problem right now. In: FAZ , May 11, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ^ "Borgia - Don't mess with them". Oliver Hirschbiegel on his new film. ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview in: ZDF series website. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ a b "Borgia" celebrates US premiere on Netflix. In: Blickpunkt: Film, September 28, 2011. Accessed October 13, 2011.
- ↑ Klaus Bassiner and Wolfgang Feindt: "Love in Times of Change". The editors about the historical six-part. ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ZDF series website. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ "The Borgia were the first modern family". Screenwriter Tom Fontana on the time of the Borgias. ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ZDF series website. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ "Borgia II" costs 30 million euros (Allgäuer Zeitung of November 7, 2012)
- ↑ BORGIA: season 3 en tournage
- ^ Borgia - ZDF censors self-produced history series. TV epic has to be cut for prime time slot. In: Schnittberichte.com, August 30, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ Borgia DVD only from the age of 18 In oe24.at, accessed on October 28, 2011
- ↑ Riema Al-Khatib: Borgia: ZDF shows the 2nd season from September . Serienjunkies.de . July 18, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
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- ↑ "Borgia": Second season comes in September
- ↑ Mario Bello: I Borgia: la serie Tv in Italia su Sky Cinema. In: QNM ( Italian ), July 8, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ Borgia: Série en production - 1 season, 12 episodes. In: AlloCiné France ( French ), October 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ^ Nikolaus von Festenberg: The Pope, the piglet. In: Der Spiegel. October 17, 2011, accessed October 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Achatz von Müller: Politics without an abdomen. In: The time. October 17, 2011, accessed October 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Willi Winkler: Hypocritical and whoring in cardinal purple. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 17, 2011, accessed October 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Klaudia Wick: The Borgias - family of deadly sins. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. October 17, 2011, accessed October 18, 2011 .
