Hunter - Deadly Greed
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hunter - Deadly Greed |
| Original title | Jagarna |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Year (s) | since 2018 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Thriller, crime, Nordic Noir |
| production |
Björn Carlström , Per Janérus |
| music | Martin Willert |
| camera | John Strandh |
| cut | Joakim Pietras |
| Initial release | Nov 14, 2018 on C More |
First publication in German |
April 18, 2019 on Das Erste and Amazon Prime Video |
| occupation | |
Jäger - Tödliche Greed (Original title: Jägarna ) is a Swedish television crime series , which began in 2018 . She adapts the original movie of the same name, Die Spur der Jäger (1996), and its cinema sequel Die Nacht der Jäger ( Jägarna 2 , 2011). The protagonist in the movies and the television series is the investigator Erik Bäckström, played by Rolf Lassgård .
The original version of the first season consists of six 45-minute episodes, the German version of which was first broadcast on Easter weekend 2019 in the form of three 90-minute television films and also published on video-on-demand . Her plot is about Bäckström's investigation into a respected mining entrepreneur who refuses to admit his guilt for a murder for personal and economic reasons.
A second season is being planned (as of February 2020).
Plot of the first season
The mining entrepreneur Markus Lindmark wants to mine gold with his company in the north of Sweden and to work with a South African company. One day, Markus' car was shot, and Markus suspected environmental activists of the act. The retired ex-detective commissioner Erik Bäckström begins to help the local police, who are impotent, with their own investigations. His nephew, the young policeman Peter Bäckström, is the only policeman who gladly accepts Erik's help - Erik is considered untrustworthy among his colleagues because he once turned against his colleagues. Even without knowing that Markus is ignoring the environmental hazard posed by arsenic during mining, Erik also lets Markus hire him as head of security. Erik finds a dead ungulate in Markus' house. Investigating this, Erik finds out about Benjamin Abrahamsson, in whose house the investigators discover utensils for making bombs himself.
Markus prepares the gold mining and the negotiations with the South Africans with the help of his brother Karl Lindmark and with Johannes Fresk. When Johannes turns away from Markus because of the threat to the environment, Markus murders him in the presence of Karl and the criminal Tord who works for Markus. Together they make the murder appear as a self-inflicted traffic accident. With Peter's help, Erik finds out that Markus is hiding his responsibility for the murder and that Erik is cheating. When Erik sees a surveillance video at Markus' company as evidence, Erik is injured by a bomb that Tord has placed on the building. Erik breaks off his stay in hospital and joins a bear hunt that Markus and Karl organize with the South African company representatives. Meanwhile, Benjamin, who is wanted by the police as a bomb bomber, takes Markus' employee Ragnhild hostage to lure Markus to him, who played a major role in the long-ago unnatural death of Benjamin's father. After Markus learned through Tord that Erik knew of evidence against Markus that was in Benjamin's possession, Markus asked Tord to kill Benjamin in order to prevent the evidence from being released. Tord shoots Benjamin and is able to convince the police who have arrived that he shot in self-defense.
The evidence against Markus is GPS data that proves Markus' whereabouts during the murder of Johannes and is now on Benjamin's notebook. When Erik fetches the notebook from Benjamin's house, Peter's superior, the policeman Måns Richardsson, takes it from him. He let himself be hired by Markus under a pretext and brings it to him. When Erik steals it from Markus' house and thus brings it to safety from Markus, he is surprised by Karl. Karl is injured as a result and as a result falls into a coma - also because of drug use. After Erik has sent the notebook to the police, they confronts Markus with the evidence incriminating him. However, Markus does not admit the truth, but wrongly attributes the murder to Karl and later kills him with a syringe in the hospital.
Also, because Peter is campaigning for Erik among the police officers, Sanna, the chief of police, orders Erik for an interrogation in which he is supposed to testify that he saw Markus sitting at the wheel of his car shortly before Johannes was run over. Markus then tries to prevent Erik from appearing for interrogation and lets Richardson bring him to Tord, who wants to shoot him in the forest. However, Erik outwits Tord and flees from Tord, Richardson and Markus to an abandoned mining site. During a duel with Tord, Erik falls into a pit and is seriously injured. Meanwhile, Peter is looking for Erik with Erik's dog and shoots Tord. With the last of his strength and a dog whistle, Erik can lead his dog and thus Peter to his rescue.
While Erik is recovering from his injuries, Peter goes to court as a witness to testify against Markus, knowing full well that this could cost him some sympathy in the city.
production
Jens Jonsson is named as the director of all six episodes of the first season, and Johan Lundin for episodes 3 to 5 . The scriptwriters for all of these six episodes are also Björn Carlström and Stefan Thunberg , with episodes 3 and 4 supported by Jimmy Nivrén Olsson . Carlström was already a co-scriptwriter for the two Jägarna films, Thunberg was already a co-scriptwriter for Die Nacht der Jäger .
occupation
The German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron under the direction of Horst Müller, who acted as dialogue director and dialogue book author .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Erik Backström | Rolf Lassgård | Douglas Welbat |
| Markus Lindmark | Pelle Heikkilä | Oliver Siebeck |
| Peter Backström | Johan Marenius Nordahl | Dirk Petrick |
| Måns Richardsson | Johannes Kuhnke | Thomas Schmuckert |
| Karl Lindmark | Sampo Sarkola | Michael Iwannek |
| Benjamin Abrahamsson | Albin Grenholm | Julian Tennstedt |
| Johannes Fresk | Mikael Ersson | Jeremias Koschorz |
| Tord | Pasi Haapala | Felix Spit |
| Ragnhild | Anna Azcárate | Marion Musiol |
| Karin Johansson | Annika Nordin | Heath Domanowski |
| Sanna | Maria Langhammer | Beate Gerlach |
| Liza | Caroline Johansson Kuhmunen | Magdalena Turba |
| Rebecca Lindmark | Amalia Holm | Victoria Frenz |
| Benjamin's mother | Marie Delleskog | Isabella Grothe |
publication
The first Swedish release of the first season took place from November 14 to December 12, 2018 on the streaming provider C More . The broadcast on the Swedish television channel TV4 was announced for 2019 .
Das Erste shows the six episodes of the first season, combined into three films, on Maundy Thursday , Easter Sunday and Easter Monday 2019 for the first time on television. Since the same days, the episodes have also been available in German on Amazon's video-on-demand service Prime Video .
On April 26, 2019, the first season was released in German as a DVD box, published by the Edel Germany label .
Episode list
| No. | First publication Sweden |
First publication in German |
German title | Audience ratings Dtl. Reach / market share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov 14, 2018 | April 18, 2019 | The gold rush | 2.14 million / 8.8% |
| 2 | ||||
| 3 | Nov 21, 2018 | Apr 21, 2019 | The hunt | 2.06 million / 8.6% |
| 4th | Nov 28, 2018 | |||
| 5 | 5th Dec 2018 | Apr 22, 2019 | The next victim | 2.44 million / 10.0% |
| 6th | Dec 12, 2018 |
criticism
German critics were mostly positive about the first season. In the Tagesspiegel, for example, the journalist Joachim Huber found the work interesting and attractive because the film genre Scandinavian Noir “does not become a monstrosity with monstrous murders and murderers”, but rather puts the human element in the foreground. In a review published by prisma , Eric Leimann praised the crime thriller for two strengths, namely the work of the cameraman John Strandh, who “captured” Swedish nature “finely” and “attractively dark”, and the performance of the main actor Lassgard, “whom one even then looks on with interest when he, as a senior grumbler from northern Sweden [sic!], is simply repairing his roof or talking to his dog. "
Web links
- Hunter - Deadly Greed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Applies to the original Swedish version.
- ↑ a b Confirmation: "Jägarna" får en till säsong på tv , in: Norrländska Socialdemokrats from Feb. 4, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020
- ↑ a b Natalie Demirian: Rolf Lassgård om nya ”Jägarna”: ”Både fysiskt och psykiskt krävande” , in: metro's web presence on November 14, 2018, accessed on April 22, 2019
- Jump up ↑ Hunter - Deadly Greed. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on April 22, 2019 .
- ↑ List of episodes at Fernsehserien.de, accessed on April 22, 2019
- ↑ David Grzeschik: Against King Football: “Merz gegen Merz” remains single-digit at the beginning , in: quotenmeter.de from April 19, 2019, accessed on April 22, 2019
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Sunday, April 21, 2019 , in: quotenmeter.de of April 22, 2019, accessed on April 22, 2019
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Strong quota to say goodbye to Lürsen and Stedefreund , in: quotenmeter.de of April 23, 2019, accessed on April 23, 2019
- ↑ Joachim Huber: It depends on gold, pushes for gold , in: Der Tagesspiegel of April 17, 2019, accessed on April 22, 2019
- ↑ Eric Leimann: Nobody repairs their roof as excitingly as Rolf Lassgard , in: prisma , undated , accessed on April 22, 2019