The Captain (TV series)
Television series | |
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Original title | The captain |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Year (s) | 1995–1996, 1999, 2008 |
length | 90 minutes |
Episodes | 9 in 3 seasons |
genre | adventure |
music | Günther Fischer |
First broadcast | January 4, 1997 on ZDF |
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The captain is an adventure television series of the ZDF , the first episode saw nearly nine million viewers.
Frank Harmsen is the captain of several cargo ships . With changing ships he transports explosive cargo on the world's oceans and with his friend chief engineer Fritz , machinist Wysocki and the respective crew, he has adventures between environmental crime and drug smuggling , civil war and mutiny .
After Atzorn quit "Der Kapitän" in 1999 due to "boring" scripts, he was drawn to the oceans again as Frank Harmsen since the end of his time as a crime scene inspector. His old companions Kaiser (Jophi Ries) and Wysocki (Jürgen Tarrach) are not on board. Filming in South Africa, Argentina, the Arctic and Hamburg ran from February to the end of April 2008.
Episodes
Season | No. of the sequence | Title of the episode | First broadcast | script | Director |
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1 | 1 | Dangerous cargo | 4th January 1997 | Christian Frei | Erhard Riedlsperger |
1 | 2 | The last voyage of the MS Cartagena | January 8, 1997 | Christian Frei | Erhard Riedlsperger, Werner Masten and Thomas Jacob |
1 | 3 | In the forecourt of hell | January 11, 1997 | Werner Masten and Carl-Christian Demke based on motifs by Christian Frei | Werner masts |
1 | 4th | Between the lines | January 15, 1997 | Christian Frei | Erhard Riedlsperger |
1 | 5 | Death in the neck | January 19, 1997 | Werner Masten and Carl-Christian Demke | Werner masts |
2 | 6th | No port for the "Anastasia" | January 15, 2000 | Benedikt Gollhardt | Sabine Landgraeber |
2 | 7th | The secret of the Viking | January 22, 2000 | Benedikt Gollhardt | Helmut Metzger |
3 | 8th | Pirates | February 20, 2009 | Rafael Solá Ferrer | Axel Barth |
3 | 9 | Pack ice | February 23, 2009 | Lorenz Stassen | Axel Barth |
DVDs
On February 25, 2011 the complete series with 9 episodes was released on 5 DVDs in one box.
DVD | DVD box "The Captain" |
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1 | Dangerous cargo, the last voyage of the MS Cartagena |
2 | In the forecourt of hell, between the fronts |
3 | Death in the neck, no haven for the "Anastasia" |
4th | The secret of the Viking |
5 | Pirates, pack ice |
Web links
- The captain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Episode guide