The Ranger - paradise home
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Ranger - paradise home |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | since 2018 |
| Production company |
new German film company |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Episodes | 4+ ( list ) |
| genre | drama |
| Theme music | Jan-Philipp Kelber : "Right where I belong" |
| script | Andreas Brune , Sven Frauenhoff , Uschi Müller , Rainer Ruppert |
| production | Gabriela Brenner |
| music | Jens Langbein , Robert Schulte-Hemming |
| First broadcast | November 23, 2018 on Das Erste |
| occupation | |
Der Ranger - Paradies Heimat is a German television series that has been produced for Das Erste since 2018 on behalf of ARD-Degeto and MDR . The episodes are about 90 minutes long and will be broadcast as part of the series Endlich Freitag on Erste . The production is carried out by the new German Filmgesellschaft mbH . The main character is Jonas Waldek, who worked as a ranger in Canada for several years . Now he is returning to his home town of Wehlen to work as a ranger in the Saxon Switzerland National Park .
background
When ZDF discontinued the Forsthaus Falkenau series in 2013 after 25 years, the production company NDF was determined to develop a similar, modernized format. The core of the plot this time should be a gamekeeper in Bavaria. The Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig heard of these plans and struck. So the story shifted from the south of the republic to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony. On the part of the production company, Axel Barth, who already worked on the series Der Bergdoktor and "successfully refreshed" it, was won over as a director for this project - the result is a contemporary and modern Heimatfilm series. Philipp Danne , known from the series In all Friendship - The Young Doctors plays the main role and has lost an extra twelve kilos. The filming location “Saxon Switzerland” was not fully developed until this series of films. 70 percent of the camera settings consist of outside shots - the landscape thus forms the actual attraction.
The shooting of the first two episodes took place in 2018 from May to July in the Saxon Switzerland National Park. When both films were first shown in November of the same year, the series was well received by the public. For the award of the Golden Camera 2019 , the series was nominated along with 14 other productions in the audience vote “Most Popular Home Series”, in which the television viewers chose the winner via SMS and telephone voting, but came away empty-handed. In July and August 2019, the filming of the third and fourth episodes of the film series took place. At the end of July 2020 it was announced that there will be two more episodes that have been shooting since July 21, 2020.
action
Episode 1 - Wolf Tracks
Jonas Waldek worked as a ranger in Canada for 5 years and is now returning to his homeland in Saxony to work as a ranger in the national park. In his hometown, the city of Wehlen, he lives on a farm with an attached sawmill. Since his brother's death, his mother and sister-in-law have run the sawmill and earn a living from it. In an effort to preserve the unique landscape and wildlife in the national park, his job is a constant balancing act between nature conservation and economic interests, because the whole region lives from tourism. There are problems in particular with the mining entrepreneur Karl Nollau, who is also the landlord of the Waldeks. He wants to put his disused mine in the protection zone of the national park back into operation in order to mine lithium and does not take any account of game and nature. Jonas receives support from the behavioral biologist Emilia Graf, who is also tracking down a wandering wolf in the national park. The ranger's family also felt the consequences of the conflict with Nollau, as the ranger wanted to cancel their lease in order to destroy their livelihood. On the other hand, there is an old lease document in which the Waldek family has transferred the farm and sawmill - but this has unfortunately been lost for many years. The search for this certificate takes Jonas and his family to their limits.
Episode 2 - Fatherly Love
After the lease was found, the existence of the Waldek family is secured again and the dispute with Nollau is settled. Still, Jonas doesn't trust him. Especially when he revealed his plans to focus entirely on tourism and therefore to expand his old mountain tunnel with a climbing park. But the ranger has other problems - the number of apparently wanton destruction has been increasing in the national park for some time. Damaged signposts are still the slightest problem, because the perpetrators do not even shy away from luring tethers on hiking trails and climbing paths, for example. Jonas suspects that these actions are intended to deter hikers and climbers in order to damage tourism in the long term. Jonas and his colleagues are alarmed and vigilant, but there is still a climbing accident due to a loose tether - and of all things during the preview of Nollau's rocks for the planned climbing park. When there were also inconsistencies in the rangers' clarification of this act, Nollau sensed a plot against himself and the dispute with Jonas broke out again. When the perpetrators hit Nollau's mining museum short and sweet, the conflict escalates with him and puts Lukas, Jonas' nephew, in mortal danger.
occupation
| actor | role | comment | episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philipp Danne | Jonas Waldek | Ranger in the national park | 1- |
| Eva-Maria Grein from Friedl | Rike Waldek | Sister-in-law of Jonas | 1- |
| Liza Tzschirner | Emilia Graf | Behavioral biologist; Friend of Jonas | 1- |
| Heike Jonca | Monika Waldek | Mother of Jonas, mother-in-law of Rike | 1- |
| Matthias Brenner | Karl Nollau | Entrepreneur (mining, hotel), friend of Monika Waldek | 1- |
| Jörg Witte | Christoph Fischer | Ranger in the national park | 1- |
| Sebastian Kaufmane | Kai Evers | 1- | |
| Valentin Wessely | Lukas Waldek | Son of Rike, nephew of Jonas | 1-2 |
| Dennis Hofmeister | 3– | ||
| Mike Maas | Robert Uhlig | 1-2 | |
| Dirc Simpson | Dr. three | Head of the National Park Administration | 1-2 |
| Luca Gugolz | Tim Nollau | Son of Karl Nollau | 1- |
| Emilia Bernsdorf | Sofie | 1 | |
| Judith Sehrbrock | Connie Müller | 1 | |
| Johannes Gardener | Bernd Lemke | 1 | |
| Gerhard Haehndel | Ingo Metz | Hunter | 1 |
| Leonie Wesselow | Paula | 2 | |
| Tom Gronau | Erik | 2 | |
| Matti Schmidt-Schaller | Morten | 2 | |
| Erik Brünner | Mr. Wegener | architect | 2 |
| Katrin Schwingel | Senta Fischer | 2 | |
| Götz Schubert | Torsten Schrader | Vacationers from Berlin | 3 |
| Anaïs Chérif | Maxi Schrader | Daughter of Torsten Schrader | 3 |
| Julius Gause | Robin Great | Son of Anna Groß | 3 |
| Denise Zich | Anna Gross | Partner of Torsten Schrader | 3 |
| Albrecht Ganskopf | Mario Kramer | Bank clerk | 3-4 |
| Bernd-Christian Althoff | Moritz Hochstätter | Ex-boyfriend and former colleague of Emilia Graf; works at the university in Dresden | 3-4 |
| Martin Gruber | Maik Zerrlinger | 4th | |
| David Korbmann | Kevin Zerrlinger | 4th | |
| Leonie Rainer | Sarah Zerrlinger | 4th | |
| Stefan König | Manuel Hartmann | 4th | |
| Paula Grasshoff | Frieda Jeschke | 4th |
Episode list
| episode | title | Working title | Shooting period | First broadcast | Director | script | Audience ratings | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolf tracks | Jonas Waldek - On the hunt | May 29, 2018 - July 25, 2018 | 23 Nov 2018 | Axel Barth | Andreas Brune, Sven Frauenhoff | 3.93 million | Saxon Switzerland |
| 2 | Fatherly love | Jonas Waldek - The last paradise | May 29, 2018 - July 25, 2018 | Nov 30, 2018 | Axel Barth | Andreas Brune, Sven Frauenhoff | 3.97 million | Saxon Switzerland |
| 3 | decisions | The Ranger III - decisions | 07/02/2019 - 08/28/2019 | Jan 03, 2020 | Franziska Hörisch | Uschi Müller | 5.15 million | Saxon Switzerland, city of Wehlen |
| 4th | Time of truth | The Ranger IV - Time of Truth | 07/02/2019 - 08/28/2019 | Jan 10, 2020 | Franziska Hörisch | Uschi Müller, Rainer Ruppert | 3.86 million | Sebnitz and the surrounding area |
| 5 | The Ranger 5 - Young Love | Jul 21, 2020 - | Imogen Kimmel | Rainer Ruppert | Saxon Switzerland |
reception
criticism
"One man, two women, all three quite attractive - and yet no chance against the Elbe Sandstone Mountains"
- Tilmann P. Gangloff at Tittelbach.tv
“A happy outdoorsman on the move between forest and rock: Sure, he loves his Saxon Switzerland. And the viewer is urged to do the same. "
"For Heimatfilm fans who don't insist on dialect - because no one here sächss"
- Anne Diekhoff in Berliner Morgenpost
DVD publications
- 2018: Der Ranger - Paradies Heimat (Episode 1 & 2, EuroVideo Medien GmbH, date of publication: December 4th, 2018)
- 2020: Der Ranger - Paradies Heimat (Episode 3 & 4, EuroVideo Medien GmbH, date of publication: January 30, 2020)
Web links
- The Ranger - Paradise home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Ranger - Paradise Home at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Kunze / Tanja Beeskow: Exclusive clip from "Der Ranger - Paradies Heimat". Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ GOLDEN CAMERA 2019: Audience vote decides on the "Most Popular Home Series" on German television. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: “The Ranger” remains on duty: ARD series with Philipp Danne continues. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ mdr.de: “Finally Friday in the First”: Shooting of two new films in the TV series by ARD Degeto / MDR: “The Ranger - Paradies Heimat” | MDR.DE. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: "The Ranger": ARD series with Philipp Danne and Liza Tzschirner will be continued. July 27, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f The Ranger - Paradise Home. Wolfspuren, TV-Movie (Series), 2018 | Crew United. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Friday, November 23, 2018. November 24, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f The Ranger - Paradise Home. Father's Love, TV-Movie (Series), 2018 | Crew United. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Friday, November 30, 2018. December 1, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d The Ranger III - Decisions, TV Movie (Series), 2019 | Crew United. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Daniel Sallhoff: Prime Time check: Friday, January 3rd 2020 January 4, 2020, accessed on 4 January 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f The Ranger IV - Time of Truth, TV Movie (Series), 2019 | Crew United. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Primetime check: Friday, January 10, 2020. January 11, 2020, accessed on January 11, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Der Ranger 5 - Junge Liebe, TV movie (series), 2020–2021 | Crew United. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Der Ranger - Paradies Heimat: Wolfspuren + Vaterliebe - review of the film at Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Anne Diekhoff: "The Ranger - Paradies Heimat": Heimatfilm about wolves can do more than expected. November 23, 2018, accessed October 3, 2019 (German).