The passport

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Television series
Original title The passport
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Year (s) since 2018
Production
company		 Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion ,
Epo-Film
length 45 minutes
Episodes 8 in 1+ seasons ( list )
genre Thriller
Director Cyrill Boss ,
Philipp Stennert
script Philipp Stennert,
Cyrill Boss,
Mike Majzen
production Quirin Berg ,
Max Wiedemann ,
Dieter Pochlatko ,
Jakob Pochlatko
music Jacob Shea
camera Philip Peschlow
cut Lucas Seeberger ,
Andreas Baltschun
First broadcast January 25, 2019 on Sky 1
occupation

The Pass is a German - Austrian television series by Cyrill Boss and Philipp Stennert with Julia Jentsch and Nicholas Ofczarek in the leading roles. After Babylon Berlin and Das Boot , this is Sky Deutschland's third in-house production . The premiere took place on September 21, 2018 at the Tribeca TV Festival, the Austrian premiere on January 15, 2019 in the Urania cinema in Vienna and the German premiere on January 16, 2019 in the Gloria-Palast in Munich . The scriptwriters were inspired by the Danish-Swedish series Die Brücke - Transit in den Tod , the plot was moved to the German-Austrian border area. However, in addition to police work, the passport also shows the perpetrator's perspective. The authors were advised by the case analyst Alexander Horn . The first broadcast took place on January 25, 2019 on Sky 1 and on ZDF from December 1, 2019.

On February 20, 2019, it was announced that the broadcaster had commissioned new episodes for a second season, which should be shot in winter 2019/20. Filming was interrupted after 40 days of shooting due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

action

A cruelly staged corpse is found on a mountain pass on the German-Austrian border . The German investigative authorities send the young, committed Commissioner Ellie Stocker from Berchtesgaden , for whom this case is the first major challenge of her career. But her counterpart from Austria, the cynical and not very committed inspector Gedeon Winter, initially shows little interest in working together.

When more symbolically arranged corpses are found soon afterwards, it becomes clear that this is a serial killer. With his victims he leaves the message The red season is coming and stylizes himself as Krampus who has to punish society for its sins. The perpetrator wants to set signals and understands his crimes as a work that should act like a wake-up call. The victims therefore also include a Bulgarian smuggler who was responsible for the deaths of many refugees locked in a truck, and the manager of a foundation who cheated on a large scale.

The pressure on Stocker and Winter to stop the perpetrator increases with each new victim. In their investigations, the two investigators penetrate deeper and deeper into the dark valleys, the archaic customs of the region and the delusional world of the murderer. The investigators manage to get in touch with the perpetrator via an online portal. They hope to identify him that way, or at least to set a trap for him. But this turns the tables and networks into the apartment of Commissioner Stocker, while she and Winter think to fix him. So the perpetrator is always informed and the police always one step ahead. Secretly, he has even fallen in love with the inspector and enjoys the recordings of her. Since there is now a free rider, the police also fall for this one and blame him for the "Krampus murders".

The special commission is dissolved, and since there has actually been no more murders for a year, the world seems to be all right again. Commissioner Winter is convinced that this is a fallacy when one accidentally finds body parts buried in the forest that have been “brought” there for at least a year. Winter's ambition is awakened to find the real culprit, and he tries to convince Ellie Stocker that the "Krampus killer" is still at large. After initial hesitation, she researched all missing persons cases in recent years in the hope of finding clues about the last woman's body. Her search leads her abroad, where she can find a woman who has been missing her sister for two years. After Stocker is certain that the dead woman is the missing young woman, she has her sister send her the last cell phone photos that show her in a mountain area. With Winter's help, they can locate the forest inn where the young woman worked as a cook and then suddenly disappeared a year ago. According to a testimony, she was seen several times near a hut where a young man had lived. In this way, Winter manages to identify Gregor Ansbach as the last user of the hut. In the search for him, Winter has to realize that Ansbach has been living in the immediate vicinity of Ellie Stocker for some time. When Winter wants to warn Stocker, Ansbach, as he is informed of the state of the investigation against him through his surveillance activities, has already got to Stocker and gets her to have a drink with him. He is no longer surprised that his arrest is imminent. He explains to his beloved that he always knew that the day would come and that he was ready. When Winter and the SEK arrive, he lets himself be arrested without resistance. At the first interrogation, he tells Winter that a woman saved him and that he is now forever connected to her. What Ansbach meant by that becomes clear the next day, when Stocker collapses with acute symptoms of intoxication and only escapes death through Winters' rapid intervention. At the same time, Ansbach dies unnoticed in his examination cell - from the same poison that he added to Stocker's drink.

production

The shooting for the first season took place from November 2017 to April 2018 in Germany and Austria. The film was shot in Bad Gastein , Berchtesgaden , Graz , Söcking (Starnberg) , Vienna and on the Grundlsee as well as in Sportgastein .

The series is produced by the German Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion , co-producer is the Austrian Epo-Film . The production was funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , the TV Fund Austria, the Filmförderung des Landes Salzburg , the CINESTYRIA Filmcommission and Fonds and the Film Commission Graz .

Andreas Baltschun and Lucas Seeberger were responsible for the editing, Thomas Oláh for the costume design , Heike Lange for the production design, Herbert Verdino, Walter Fiklocki and Quirin Böhm for the original sound, Nico Krebs for the final sound design and mixing and Tatjana Luckdorf and for the make-up image Evgenia Popova.

Filming for the second season started in January 2020. Filming was interrupted after 40 days of shooting due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is scheduled to continue in autumn 2020.

reception

Anna-Maria Wallner wrote in the daily newspaper Die Presse that after the first episode the fear was dispelled that the series could linger too long with clichéd differences between German and Austrian mentalities. The narrative path is courageous and rather unusual, in which the viewer learns who the murderer is in a row three. The fact that the tension persists is mainly due to the strikingly strong images and the gloomy hue. The first scene is reminiscent of the refugee tragedy near Parndorf .

The film journalist Oliver Kaever referred to the current time references of the series in his article on Spiegel Online . It is about isolation, the power of the Internet and digital surveillance fantasies. “However, these topicalities still recede in view of the grief that is spreading here powerfully that man is a wolf to man. And the world is not a place that forgives. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff found on Tittelbach.tv that the production emancipated itself from the Danish-Swedish model with the first pictures. In terms of craftsmanship, the series is outstanding. The music regularly drives the tension to the climax, “the changes of scene are sometimes of astonishing sophistication, the editing is excellent, and cameraman Philip Peschlow has created recordings of gruesome beauty. Nevertheless, a series like this lives from the characters and their actors. "

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Claudia Tieschky wrote of an extraordinarily perfect crime series, in which the dosed mystery only creates special shivers, as an accompaniment to the classic, tough hunt for a serial killer.

Episode list

season 1

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		Original title First broadcast Director script
1 1 darkness Jan 25, 2019 ( Sky 1 ) Cyrill Boss , Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
2 2 The red season Jan 25, 2019 (Sky 1) Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert, Mike Majzen
3 3 The man from the forest 0Feb 1, 2019 (Sky 1) Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert, Mike Majzen
4th 4th The bad and naughty 0Feb 1, 2019 (Sky 1) Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
5 5 Masks 0Feb. 8, 2019 (Sky 1) Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
6th 6th Made of flesh and blood 0Feb. 8, 2019 (Sky 1) Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert, Mike Majzen
7th 7th The storm Feb 15, 2019 (Sky 1) Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
8th 8th Angel Feb 15, 2019 (Sky 1) Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert

Awards and nominations (selection)

Golden Camera 2019

Romy award 2019

Bavarian TV Prize 2019

  • Nomination in the category Best Actor (Nicholas Ofczarek)

Venice TV Award 2019

  • Nomination in the category Best TV Series

German Academy for Television - Television Award 2019

  • Award in the sound design category (Herbert Verdino (original sound), Nico Krebs (mix and sound design), Wolfi Müller (noise maker))
  • Award in the Casting category (Daniela Tolkien)
  • Nomination in the production category (Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann)
  • Nomination in the editorial / producing category (Oliver Ossege and Quirin Schmidt)
  • Nomination in the category Actor Leading Role (Nicholas Ofczarek)

Jupiter Award 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best TV Series National

Grimme Prize 2020

German television award 2020

  • Award in the category of best drama series
  • Nomination in the category Best Actor (Nicholas Ofczarek)
  • Nomination in the category Best Director Fiction (Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert)
  • Nomination in the category Best Cinematography Fiction (Philip Peschlow)

Web links

Individual evidence

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