The Truth About The Harry Quebert Case (TV Series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The truth about the Harry Quebert case |
| Original title | The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 2018 |
| Production company |
MGM Television , Barbary Films, Muse Entertainment |
| length | about 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 10 in 1 season ( list ) |
| genre | Thriller , drama |
| music | Simon Franglen |
| First broadcast | September 4th, 2018 (UK) on Sky Witness |
First publication in German |
April 1, 2019 on TVNOW |
| occupation | |
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (AKA: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair ) is an American thriller - miniseries contains the 10 episodes of 45 minutes each. In the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Joël Dicker , Patrick Dempsey plays a successful author who is suspected of the murder of a 15-year-old girl. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud . In Germany, the series ordered by the US television broadcaster Epix has been available online on the TVNOW streaming site since April 1, 2019 .
action
Maine 1975. 34-year-old bestselling author Harry Quebert meets 15-year-old Nola Kellergan and starts an affair with her. The two plan to leave for a future together, but before that happens, Nola disappears without a trace. It appears that she has been the victim of a crime, but the circumstances are never cleared up.
A good 30 years later, the celebrated young author Marcus Goldman suffers from writer's block. He asks his former mentor Quebert for help and travels from New York to Maine. Back in New York, he sees the news that the body of a young woman, Nola Kellergan, has been found on Quebert's property. When Quebert is arrested on suspicion of murder, Goldman travels to Maine to look for the real culprit with lawyer Benjamin Roth and police sergeant Perry Gahalowood.
background
Emergence
A film adaptation for the cinema was planned as early as 2014. Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to the novel from Joël Dicker. Ron Howard would direct, Brian Grazer would produce with his company Imagine Entertainment . Even Steven Spielberg and Luc Besson have acted as directors. As actors in the role of Marcus Goldman, Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper were in conversation in the meantime, when the filming was already emerging as a series , and author Dicker also had the two as preferred candidates in mind. When their commitment did not work out and Patrick Dempsey, a well-known actor, could be engaged for the title role, the project was tailored more to the character of Harry Quebert than to Marcus Goldman.
Filming
The ten-part series, which is Annaud's series debut, was from 15 August 2017 to 11 December 2017 various locations in the Canadian Quebec rotated.
publication
The series was shown in excerpts on April 6, 2018 at the Canneseries Festival in Cannes , the actors Patrick Dempsey, Ben Schnetzer and Kristine Froseth as well as the director Jean-Jacques Annaud were present. It celebrated its world premiere on September 4, 2018 on British television at Sky Witness . In France, it was shown on TF1 in November 2018 and achieved a market share of 22.7% at its premiere with 5.6 million viewers.
Cast and dubbing
The synchronization was done by Scalamedia based on a dialog book by Änne Troester and directed by Cay-Michael Wolf .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Harry Quebert | Patrick Dempsey | Boris Tessmann |
| Marcus Goldman | Ben Schnetzer | Patrick Roche |
| Perry Gahalowood | Damon Wayans, Jr. | Bastian Sierich |
| Nola Kellergan | Kristine Frøseth | Derya Flechtner |
| Gareth Platt | Kurt Fuller | Bodo Wolf |
| Jenny Quinn | Victoria Clark | Katrin Zimmermann |
| Benjamin Roth | Wayne Knight | Hans Hohlbein |
| David Kellergan | Matt Frewer | Viktor Neumann |
| Luther Caleb | Joshua Close | Gerrit Hamann |
| Travis Dawn (young) | Connor Price | Patrick Keller |
| Travis Dawn | Craig Eldridge | Stefan Gossler |
| Jenny Quinn (young) | Tessa Mossey | Mia Diekow |
| Tamara Quinn | Virginia Madsen | Susanne von Medvey |
| Bobbo Quinn | Don Harvey | Matthias Klie |
Episodes
| No. | German title | Original title | First broadcast in UK | German language first publication (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under the earth | How Does Your Garden Grow | 4th Sep 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene , Richard Levine |
| 2 | Boxing match | The boxing match | Sep 11 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene, Richard Levine, Hanna Weg |
| 3 | July 4th | The Fourth of July | Sep 18 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene, Richard Levine |
| 4th | Family secrets | Family Matters | 25 Sep 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene, Richard Levine |
| 5 | Mirror images | Mirror, mirror | Oct 2, 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene, Richard Levine |
| 6th | Angel or devil? | No angel | Oct 9, 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene, Richard Levine |
| 7th | Branded | Persona non grata | Oct 16, 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Michael Horowitz |
| 8th | Perfect illusion | Got It All Wrong | 23 Oct 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lisa Melamed |
| 9 | Arsonist | Firebug | Oct. 30, 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene, Richard Levine |
| 10 | The offender | the end | Nov 6, 2018 | April 1, 2019 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Lyn Greene, Richard Levine |
reception
In Die Welt, Elmar Krekeler criticizes the lack of speed in the staging and says that director Annaud “perhaps with the false certainty that he doesn't have just two hours of narrative time, as usual in the cinema, but a good ten hours [...] to jump through the Chronology […] in contrast to Dicker in slow motion, as it were. The dialogues are "of a considerable simplicity of the mind" and "also aesthetically cinematic [is] Annaud's first series of the aesthetic daring of a Bremen" Tatort "from the mid-nineties."
Web links
- The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The truth about the Harry Quebert case on TVNOW
- The truth about the Harry Quebert case on Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dave McNary: Ron Howard Directing 'Harry Quebert Affair' Murder Mystery , Variety.com , April 23, 2014, accessed April 3, 2019
- ↑ Ron Howard Tells the Truth about the Harry Quebert Case , filmfutter.com, April 28, 2014, accessed April 3, 2019.
- ^ Jean-Jacques Annaud dévoile "La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Québert", sa première série TV à Canneseries , France Info , April 8, 2018, accessed on April 3, 2019
- ^ Jean-Maxime Renault: La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert: Ryan Gosling aurait pu incarner Marcus Goldman! , allocine.fr, December 5, 2018, accessed April 3, 2019
- ↑ Timo Niemeier: TVNow shows in April the US series with Patrick Dempsey , DWDL.de , March 15, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2019
- ↑ Information on locations and times in the IMDb , accessed on April 2, 2019
- ↑ Information on presseportal.de , March 27, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2019
- ↑ The Truth About the Harry Quebert Case. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Elmar Krekeler: An Abyss called Bestselling Author , Welt.de , April 1, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2019