German Les Landes
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | German Les Landes |
| Original title | German Les Landes |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , German |
| year | 2018 |
| Production company |
Amazon Studios Bavaria Fiction Deutsche Telekom Telfrance |
| length | approx. 26 minutes |
| Episodes | 10 in 1 season ( list ) |
| genre | Dramedy |
| Director |
Denis Dercourt Annette Ernst |
| production | Denis Dercourt |
| Initial release | November 1, 2018 on MagentaTV |
| occupation | |
German-Les-country is a German - French comedy - television series that includes 10 episodes, each 26 minutes. In the first season of the comedy led Denis Dercourt and Annette Ernst Director. The series, in which Christoph Maria Herbst and Roxane Duran, among others, star in the lead roles, is about employees of a German company whose department is being relocated to a small French town, and about residents of this small town who get along with their new neighbors have to.
In German-Les-country is the first in-house production of Deutsche Telekom in cooperation with Bavaria Fiction and Telfrance and Amazon Studios , it is since 1 November 2018 Germany exclusively on the streaming service MagentaTV to see. The series premiered in Munich on October 23, 2018 .
It is the first French production for Amazon; It started in France on November 30, 2018 and will also be shown via streaming on Amazon Prime Video .
action
In Jiscalosse, a fictional village in the Landes department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France , the mayor Martine sells part of the municipality to Gerhard Jäger, the eccentric head of a German automotive supplier, in order to avoid bankruptcy of the municipality. Over the heads of his workforce, Jäger decides to outsource the design department of his company there, so that the employees and their families have to move to the south of France. Among them are department head Manfred with his son Dominik, controller Karsten with his wife Marion and their two children as well as the complaints officer Chloé, who comes from Jiscalosse as a French but actually wanted to escape her homeland.
The Germans are welcomed by the residents partly with delight and partly with suspicion. Ghyslaine, the hotel operator and Chloé's mother, is particularly unsuitable for the new neighbors. She organizes a resistance movement, which brings her daughter's anger. She in turn has to come to terms with her childhood friend, with whom she had never officially broken up and who is still in love with her. When her German friend Andreas shows up, she has to decide.
Manfred, on the other hand, a single father, settles in well in the new environment after initial difficulties. He falls in love with Odile, his son Dominik's new teacher. When his ex-wife Katherine, Dominik's mother, shows up, his son initially turns away from him, as Manfred had told him for years that his mother had died. Odile is also deeply hurt. However, they get along again, Dominik can forgive him when he falls in love with a classmate.
When Jäger had the idea of relocating the design department again, this time to Spain, employees and locals rehearsed the uprising, headed by Ghyslaine, which the Germans no longer want to give up. Even controller Karsten, who with his pedantic manner had the biggest adjustment problems at the beginning, does not want to leave anymore. Finally, Jäger gives in, but dismisses Manfred, who then runs as candidate for mayor of Jiscalosse after learning that his father was a native of France.
production
The series was filmed from April 3 to June 15, 2018 in the French commune of Rions near Bordeaux , which became the fictional “Jiscalosse” in the Landes department while filming .
occupation
| role | actor | Voice actor in the German version | Voice actor in the French version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manfred | Christoph Maria Herbst | Jochen Hägele | |
| Chloé | Roxane Duran | Roxane Duran | Roxane Duran |
| Martine | Marie-Anne Chazel | Monica Bielenstein | |
| Gerhard Jäger | Rufus Beck | Jean-François Vlerick | |
| Odile | Sylvie Testud | Sabine Falkenberg | |
| Karsten | Sebastian Schwarz | Christophe Lemoine | |
| Marion | Jasmin Schwiers | Zina Khakhoulia | |
| Katherine | Anna Thalbach | Nathalie Spitzer | |
| Ghyslaine | Sophie Mounicot | Sabina Trooger | |
| Guillaume | Philippe Lelièvre | Bernd Vollbrecht | |
| Bernard | Thierry Remi | ? | |
| Jean-Michel | Eric Métayer | Stefan Krause | |
| Matthieu | Gauthier Battoue | Jannik Endemann | |
| Dominik | Niklas Post | Gabriel Bismuth | |
| Andreas | Steve Windolf | Jérémy Prévost |
Episodes
| No. | Original title | First broadcast D |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The announcement | 1st November 2018 |
| 2 | The arrival | 1st November 2018 |
| 3 | Love is in the tree | 1st November 2018 |
| 4th | Open-door day | 1st November 2018 |
| 5 | French disco | 1st November 2018 |
| 6th | Oktoberfest | 1st November 2018 |
| 7th | Sea, Sex and Sun | 1st November 2018 |
| 8th | Family affair | 1st November 2018 |
| 9 | The riot | 1st November 2018 |
| 10 | French conditions | 1st November 2018 |
Reviews
Victor Redman writes on bento.de that the interplay of black and autumn is effortless and that the characters work well together. That is "rare and worth seeing." Sophie Krause from Tagesspiegel thinks the series offers "amusing international understanding".
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online, on the other hand, considers Deutsch-Les-Landes to be a “serial fiasco” and “a role backwards from the present-day series in terms of content, aesthetics and humor”. He praises Christoph Maria Herbst, but the series only draws its modest potential from the fact that "the two countries were hostile to each other in two world wars". Alexander Moritz also had little to gain from the series on Deutschlandfunk and summed up: "The clash of cultures remains all too clichéd." In France, too, the criticism was sometimes very negative; The review of the French film information service Allociné asked: “ Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu du streaming pour nous infliger ça? » (“ What have we done to the God of streaming that He does this to us? ”) . The reviewer qualified the series as "old-fashioned and embarrassing" (vieillot et gênant) , especially in comparison to productions by Amazon from other countries, such as Transparent (USA) and Beat (Germany).
The fact that the series is completely synchronized is also criticized. It is “completely meaningless”, says Thomas Lückerath on DWDL.de , “when, thanks to synchronization, we watch German-speaking French learn German in order to communicate with the Germans in town.” In addition, Deutsch-Les-Landes knows “in in many ways not what it wants. French comedy in the slapstick style mixes with German humor of the drier kind. “Nevertheless, one laughs very seldom for a comedy.
Web links
- German-Les-Landes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Deutsch-Les-Landes at Crew United
- Deutsch-Les-Landes on Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alexander Moritz: clichés in front of and behind the camera. In: deutschlandfunk.de . November 1, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .
- ^ "Deutsch-les-Landes": de quoi va parler la première série d'Amazon tournée en France ?? ( fr ) Sud Ouest .
- ↑ Nicolas Bellet: Deutsch-Les-Landes: Amazon Prime lance sa première série française avec Sylvie Testud ( fr ) premiere.fr .
- ↑ a b Crew United - The network of the film and television industry. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Celyne Bayt Darcourt: "German-les-country": la première série "made in France" d'Amazon Prime video. In: francetvinfo.fr . November 30, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Deutsch-Les-Landes in the German Synchronous Index , accessed on November 27, 2018
- ↑ Source: series credits
- ↑ Information on synchronization on rsdoublage.com, accessed on November 30, 2018 (French)
- ↑ Victor Redman: Telekom produced a series. "Deutsch-Les-Landes" is so good , bento.de , October 31, 2018, accessed on November 30, 2018
- ^ Sophie Krause: Stromberg makes it french , tagesspiegel.de , October 31, 2018, accessed on November 30, 2018
- ↑ Christian Buß: Two World Wars, 200 Bad Jokes , Spiegel Online , October 30, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018
- ^ Jean-Maxime Renault: German-Les-Landes: que vaut la première série française d'Amazon dans la veine de Camping Paradis? In: allocine.fr . November 29, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Thomas Lückerath: Culture-Clash-Crash: "Deutsch-Les-Landes" disappointed , DWDL.de , November 1, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018