Call the Midwife
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Call the Midwife |
| Original title | Call the Midwife |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2012 |
| Production company |
Neal Street Productions (Dam Mendes) |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 42 in 5+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Drama , women's film |
| idea | Heidi Thomas |
| production |
Pippa Harris , Caro Newling |
| music | Peter Salem |
| First broadcast | January 15, 2012 on BBC One |
| German-language first broadcast |
February 14, 2013 on Passion |
| occupation | |
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Call the Midwife - Call of Life (Original title: Call the Midwife ; English Call "call", Midwife " Midwife "; in German: "Call the Midwife") is a television series first broadcast by the BBC since 2012 , which was broadcast in the 1950s in impoverished post-war London East End plays. The almost one-hour episodes revolve around midwives who provide obstetrics in the working-class neighborhood of Poplar . They are employed by the church and live in an environment of religious sisters. Call the Midwife is the most successful television series on the first BBC television program since 2001 and has received several international awards. It has been running in England since 2016 in the fifth season. The German premiere was in February 2013 on the pay TV channel Passion . The German free TV premiere was on April 30, 2013 on ServusTV .
In November 2016, the BBC announced that it had commissioned another three seasons of eight episodes each and three Christmas episodes. So the story continues until 1965 in season nine.
Origin and content
Was developed Call the Midwife of the Liverpool screenwriter Heidi Thomas after the English bestsellers Call the Midwife (first published 2002) and the successor volumes Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009) of the nurse and musician Jennifer Worth . Original quotes from Worth's memoir, spoken by Vanessa Redgrave , frame the individual episodes acoustically.
At the center of each episode is Nonnatus Monastery and a confinement. A social study with emotional components is spun around it. In one episode, the unexpected death of a newborn child forces the midwife to provide legal justifications. Other episodes include innovations in medical technology such as the introduction of laughing gas during labor, the brutality of men in families, racist reservations against black people, alcohol addiction, parent-child relationships shaken by emigration and war trauma, illegal abortion due to a lack of contraceptives or the abuse of a woman Sailors of a cargo ship play a central role.
Despite all the social explosiveness and the drill within the Anglican-run nurses' home, the series has a basic mood of human warmth. Aesthetically, Call the Midwife follows on from the global success of the English television series Downton Abbey .
Much of the exterior footage was taken in Chatham's historic docks .
Episode list
International sales
Call the Midwife was taken over by the American non-commercial television network PBS in September 2012 and received mostly euphoric reviews in the USA. The BBC also licensed the series to Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Spain, Greece, Australia and New Zealand. In February 2013 the BBC announced that Call the Midwife had aired in over 100 regions of the world.
synchronization
The series is set to music at Splendid Synchron in Cologne . Bernd Nigbur writes the dialogue books and directs the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jenny Lee | Jessica Raine | Dina Kürten |
| Cynthia Miller | Bryony Hannah | Demet Fey |
| Trixie Franklin | Helen George | Kirstin Hesse |
| Sister Monica Joan | Judy Parfitt | Ursula Heyer |
| Fred | Cliff Parisi | Thomas Balou Martin |
| Sister Julienne | Jenny Agutter | Michaela Kametz |
| Sister Bernadette | Laura Main | Silke Linderhaus |
| Sister Evangelina | Pam Ferris | Ulrike Johannson |
| Dr. Gymnast | Stephen McGann | Gregor Höppner |
| Peter Noakes | Ben Caplan | Philipp Schepmann |
| Chummy Browne | Miranda Hart | Eva Michaelis |
| Jimmy | George Rainsford | Louis Friedemann Thiele |
| Narrator | Vanessa Redgrave | Judy Winter |
Awards and nominations
| year | Award | category | receiver | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | British Academy Television Craft Award | Best costume design | Amy Roberts | nomination |
| British Academy Television Award | The best supporting actress | Miranda Hart | nomination | |
| Prix Europe | Best episode of a TV series | Call The Midwife | nomination | |
| TV fiction | Call The Midwife | nomination | ||
| TV Choice Awards (UK) | Best Actress | Miranda Hart | Won | |
| Best New Drama Series | Call The Midwife | Won | ||
| 2013 | National Television Awards | Drama Performance: Female | Miranda Hart | Won |
| TV and Radio Industries Club Award | Drama series of the year | Call The Midwife | Won | |
| Royal Television Society | Best drama series | Call The Midwife | nomination | |
| Christopher Award | TV and Cable Prize | Call The Midwife | Won | |
| British Academy Television Craft Awards | Director - Fiction | Philippa Lowthorpe | Won | |
| Make up and hair design | Christine Walmesley-Cotham | Won | ||
| British Academy Television Awards | Audience award | Call the Midwife | nomination | |
| TV Choice Awards (UK) | Best Actress | Miranda Hart | Won | |
| Best drama series | Call The Midwife | nomination | ||
| 2014 | Satellite Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or a Movie for TV | Judy Parfitt | nomination |
Press reviews
- “This immensely engaging drama is well worth the effort to pursue its individual pleasure.” The Wall Street Journal
- "The cast is excellent, meticulously recreating the barren reality of the post-war years." The Washington Post
- “Sentimental, touching, and often heartbreaking.” San Francisco Chronicle
- " Call the Midwife embeds the classless miracle of childbirth in a brilliantly presented socio-historical milieu and wraps the audience in the wellbeing of the good old days." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Web links
- Call the Midwife - call of life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Call the Midwife - Call of Life on fernsehserien.de
- Call the Midwife - Call of Life on passion.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The first season had an average audience rating of 8.7 million viewers in the UK.
- ↑ The series and its leading actors were nominated at the Prix Europa and the BAFTA Film Prize 2012. The series won prizes at the TV Choice Awards (best film; Miranda Hart , best actress) and the National Television Awards 2013 (Miranda Hart, best female actress) ).
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2013 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.
- ^ BBC - BBC announces three-series deal of acclaimed drama Call The Midwife - Media Center .
- ^ Eva Park: Jennifer Worth Obituary , The Guardian , July 6, 2011 article, accessed January 12, 2014.
- ↑ BBC WORLDWIDE and PBS Sign Deal to Bring Critically Acclaimed Show to the US . May 15, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
- ↑ Record number of delegates head to biggest ever BBC Worldwide Showcase in Liverpool to celebrate a significant anniversary . February 12, 2013. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Call the Midwife. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
- ^ The Labor-Intensive Life . October 29, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ↑ 'Call the Midwife': Keep calm and puuush . October 29, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ↑ 'Call the Midwife' review: Heartwarming . October 29, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ^ FAZ from March 1, 2012 , with spelling correction
