Greyzone - No Way Out

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Television series
German title Greyzone - No Way Out
Original title Greyzone (Denmark) ,
Gråzon (Sweden)
Country of production Denmark , Sweden , Germany
original language Danish , Swedish
year 2018
Production
company		 Cosmo movie
length 42 minutes
Episodes 10 in 1 season ( list )
genre thriller
script Morten Dragsted ,
Oskar Söderlund ,
Mikkel Bak Sørensen ,
Rasmus Thorsen
production Rasmus Thorsen
music Henrik Lindstrand
Initial release Feb 22, 2018 on
C More

First publication in German		 13 Sep 2018 on ZDFmediathek , ZDFneo
occupation
synchronization

Greyzone - No Way Out (Original title in Denmark: Greyzone , in Sweden: Gråzon ) is a Danish - Swedish - German thriller - TV series from 2018 , in which it is about a woman who is used by terrorists in preparation for an attack while she is her boy Holding son hostage.

action

During a police check of a suspicious truck in Gothenburg that had entered Germany via Denmark, a shoot-out breaks out, in which the passenger and a customs officer die and the driver can flee shot. The Swedish security police officer Eva Forsberg discovered in the truck one of two from NATO stolen inventories directly antiaircraft - warheads . Swedish and Danish secret services cooperate in the investigation and the search for the driver and the second warhead. From their point of view, there is a risk of a terrorist attack in Scandinavia. Forsberg's new colleague, PET officer Jesper Lassen, uses one of his old contacts, an imam , to find the fugitive driver. After the driver narrowly escaped the investigators in Copenhagen , he was strangled and the imam stabbed elsewhere. The Imam's death throws Jesper into a conflict of conscience, while investigations reveal that the driver is from Chechnya .

Meanwhile, Victoria Rahbek, Head of Development at the Stockholm company SparrowSat, which specializes in drone control systems, meets her ex-fellow student Iyad Adi Kassar on a lecture tour in Frankfurt am Main . When she then receives him in her Copenhagen apartment, she is overwhelmed by him and - under threat of endangering the life of her young son Oskar - forced by him to steal work materials from her company and to give him information about the control system. Iyad also uses surveillance cameras to hold Victoria and Oskar in their apartment. An attempt to escape from Victoria ends unsuccessfully because she is stopped by an accomplice of Iyad.

Meanwhile, based on flight data analyzes, the investigators come across a connection between the truck driver and Victoria, because both recently flew four times in each direction on the same plane between Copenhagen and Stockholm. After evaluating the driver's smartphone data, the investigators followed the trail of an ISO container that they discovered empty in Sweden and in which the second warhead was apparently transported until a few hours ago. After Jesper Victoria has paid an unauthorized exploratory visit, she learns about the circumstances of Jesper's past, whereupon she agrees to observe Victoria. It soon becomes clear to investigators that the hostage-takers are planning an attack using drone technology with Victoria's help, and that Iyad is working on behalf of Al-Shishani, one of the world's most wanted terrorists. The officers decide not to rescue Victoria from her predicament, but to recruit her as a temporary agent to convict the criminals and prevent the attack. In Oskar's kindergarten, they secretly give her instructions. When instructed accordingly, she installs bugging software on his cell phone without Iyad's knowledge.

On another trip to Stockholm, Victoria would like to steal a certain version of the software that is used for drone control from the SparrowSat company building on Iyad's behalf. However, her colleague Linda surprises her and suspiciously steals the external hard drive with the software and goes home with it. Al-Shishani and Iyad have Linda killed to prevent Victoria's fraud from being discovered at their company. Although in close proximity to the crime scene, the investigators do not prevent the murder in order not to endanger the lives of Victoria and Oskar. The murder shakes Victoria's relationship of trust with the investigators badly, so that they fear that Victoria is no longer working in their favor. A police psychologist even fears Stockholm Syndrome in Victoria.

Iyad travels with Victoria and Oskar to a holiday resort, where she finishes installing the drone control software for him. The investigators hope in vain to take this opportunity to find out the location of the drone. Upon closer examination of Iyad's past, Eva and Jesper discover questionable behavior on the part of Lars Björklund, the major in the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service who coordinates the investigation. Then the investigators learned in a video conference that Iyad's Swedish wife and their son once died as collateral victims in a US drone attack in Jordan . At the same time as this conference, Victoria and Iyad have become so close that they have sex with each other.

The investigators secretly gain access to the apartment of Iyad's accomplice Claes and use the data on his computer. A meeting of high-ranking Scandinavian defense politicians in the inner city area emerges as a possible target, which is why the date for the meeting is postponed immediately. Since the intrusion of the emergency services into the apartment does not go unnoticed, the terrorists change their plan. The new target is the Imperial Hospital in Copenhagen . While Al-Shishani and Iyad are on their way to the drone's launch site with Victoria and Oskar, Victoria leaves the police with a note so that they can follow her.

Investigators can no longer prevent the terrorists from launching the drone, equipped with the second warhead, from a remote Swedish homestead. Al-Shishani then instructs Iyad to kill Victoria and Oskar so as not to leave any witnesses. However, Iyad shoots Claes instead and lets them flee. Shortly afterwards, the drone hits the homestead and kills all the other terrorists. Iyad, who had previously criticized the hospital as a target, had apparently changed the coordinates so that the threat flies in a circle.

Eva finally confronts Björklund and accuses him of hushing up Iyad's well-known past for career reasons and thus promoting the planned crime. Björklund, however, is not aware of any guilt.

Emergence

Showrunner and producer Rasmus Thorsen worked with Danish production company Cosmo Film to develop the story, which began with the idea of ​​exploring fear of terrorism, together with screenwriter Oskar Söderlund . For the conception of the story, they enlisted the help of the Scandinavian psychiatrist Michael Bruun , who had experience as a negotiator in a hostage-taking in Somalia , and the former head of operations of the Danish secret service PET , Frank Jensen.

The series is an international co-production in which Cosmo Film cooperated with the British television network ITV , Norwegian radio , the Swedish channels TV4 and C More and the German channel ZDFneo .

Thorsen put the cost of the ten episodes at 10 million euros in an interview.

Filming began on June 13, 2017 and was scheduled to run until December 2017. The main locations were Copenhagen , Stockholm and Frankfurt am Main .

Cast and voice actor

actor Role name Voice actor role
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Victoria Rahbek Simona Pahl Dane, head of development at a Stockholm company for drone control systems
Ardalan Esmaili Iyad Adi Kassar Oliver Boettcher Swedish-Syrian terrorist, ex-fellow student of Victoria Rahbek
Joachim Fjelstrup Jesper Lassen Nils Rieke Officer of the Danish secret service PET
Tova Magnusson Eva Forsberg Dagmar Dreke An official of the Swedish Security Police
Lars Ranthe Henrik Dalum Volker Hanisch Head of operations of the Danish secret service PET
Johan Rabaeus Lars Björklund Wolf Frass Major in the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service
Virgil Katring-Rasmussen Oskar Rahbek Lindsbye Hannes Deinhardt Son of Victoria Rahbek
Karin Franz Körlof Linda Laaksonen Kristina von Weltzien Victoria Rahbek's colleague

publication

The original language first publication of at least the first episode took place on February 22, 2018 by the Scandinavian pay-TV and video-on-demand provider C More . Starting three days later, on February 25, 2018, the Danish broadcaster TV 2 broadcast the series on television on a weekly basis.

With German dubbing, the entire 10-part season was available for streaming in the ZDFmediathek from September 13, 2018 . From the same day, ZDFneo also broadcast the series in double episodes in the evening program.

Episode list

No. Original title First broadcast
( TV 2 ) 		German title
1 En aftale Feb 25, 2018 The agreement
2 First mission 04th Mar 2018 The first mission
3 Hjemkomst 11th Mar 2018 Oscar
4th A chance 18 Mar 2018 The code
5 Recruited 25th Mar 2018 Contact
6th Dobbelagent 0April 1, 2018 Double agent
7th Ofret 08 Apr 2018 access
8th Overlevelse April 15, 2018 to survive
9 Simone Apr 22, 2018 Simone
10 En ny verden 29 Apr 2018 A new world

criticism

A dpa article that appeared online at Zeit praised the series as “great cinema”, ideally cast in the two female lead roles and as “well told”, even if “not entirely clichéd”.

Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release Info , in: IMDb , accessed on July 27, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e Annika Pham: Greyzone - challenging audiences on terrorism , website of Nordisk Film & TV Fond from March 1, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2019
  3. ↑ Annika Pham: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen hostage in major Danish / Swedish / German TV drama , in: Nordisk Film & TV Fond's website on June 13, 2017, accessed on July 27, 2019
  4. ↑ a b "Greyzone - No Way Out": A thriller with ten episodes , in: Zeit online from September 11th. 2018, accessed July 27, 2019