La Zona - Do not cross

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Television series
German title La Zona - Do not cross
Original title La zona
Country of production Spain , Germany
original language Spanish
year 2017
Production
company		 Movistar +
length 50 minutes
Episodes 8 in 1 season ( list )
genre Drama, thriller
Director Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo
idea Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo
script Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo
production Juan Moreno , Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo
music Olivier Arson
camera Daniel Sosa
Initial release October 27, 2017 on Movistar +

First publication in German		 June 1, 2019 on ZDFmediathek , ZDFneo
occupation
synchronization

La Zona - Do not cross (original title: La zona , literally "The Zone") is a Spanish - German thriller - television series from 2017, which tells a criminal story against the background of the aftermath of a fictitious reactor accident in northern Spain.

action

In a reactor accident southeast of the northern Spanish city of Gijón , several people were killed or injured and the surrounding region was radioactively contaminated. Than three years thereafter applies the action, there are around the now in dismantling located, affected nuclear power plant a restricted zone, not allowed to stay in which civilians. Resettlement regions to which their former residents can return, as well as men called liquidators who work on the decontamination of the exclusion zone and also live in it, are excluded from this ban. Numerous people are still suffering from the consequences of the accident, be it physically, mentally or materially. Some people make themselves criminals by smuggling items out of the restricted area.

Episodes 1 to 4

Eduard Fernández , actor of the inspector Hector Uría

In a warehouse in the exclusion zone, while pursuing the young drug smuggler Zoe, the policeman Martín Garrido discovers the upside down corpse of Zoe's uncle Estéban, which has wolf and human bite marks. Martín and his colleague, Police Inspector Hector Uría, begin investigating the death and the smuggling business. Little does Hector know that Martín is serving as an informant for the boss of the smugglers' ring, Aurelio Barrero. Hector becomes aware of Barrero with the help of Zoe, who is released in return. Shortly afterwards, Barrero forces Zoe to cremate two bodies, one of which, according to Barrero, is Estéban's murderer.

One night the body of the pensioner Tomas is found in a residential building in a resettlement region, also hung upside down and with bite marks; his wife Luisa is seriously injured. A connection to Estéban's death is obvious for the investigating police officers, who now include federal police officer Alfredo Asunción. This recognizes the blood trail of a second stranger at the crime scene. The investigators are soon certain that the murderer of Estéban and Tomas must be a liquidator from the small town of San Adriano in the restricted zone. Hector follows the trail of the alleged murderer to a club in San Adriano visited by liquidators, where he also catches Zoe dealing heroin , but cannot get Barrero.

When the press reported the probable misidentification of the dead after the reactor accident, Martín's daughter Esther Uría, adviser to the government commissioner Ferreras, campaigned to draw public attention to the Esteban death in order to divert attention from the false autopsies and avert political damage. The news of incorrect autopsies after the reactor catastrophe feeds in Hector's ex-wife Marta Carcedo fears that their son Fede, who was then declared dead, might not be properly buried, and is her reason to visit Hector now.

When Zoe wants to break away from Barrero, she calls Hector for help at the campsite, where her Barrero and his helper Dani are ambushing and has already shot her father Manuel, who wanted to protect Zoe. Hector appears there with Martín, who kills Barrero in an argument and therefore now has to admit to Hector that he was blackmailed by Barrero as an informant. Hector visits a bar where Barrero and the hunter Lucio have been invited by a man whom Lucio only calls "Don Fausto". Lucio is one of two men who, on his behalf, hunt certain people with rifles in the forest in the exclusion zone.

Julia Martos, Hector's friend, noticed during her work as a doctor based on frequent sickness reports that an unusually high level of radioactivity had recently leaked from the ruins of the damaged nuclear power plant and there must have been a leak.

Episodes 5 through 8

With Zoe's help, Hector and Martín hide their presence at the campsite from Alfredo and their boss Luis Carreño and thus Martín's responsibility for Barrero's death. The investigators are investigating the employees of the cleaning company ARV, where Barrero was employed. It has more than 1000 employees, around a third with a criminal record, who work as liquidators on the decontamination, and belongs to the man Fausto Armendáriz, previously known as “Don Fausto”. The investigators find it highly suspicious that some of the employees were sent to work at the company by Judge Juez Miralles, although this is far too low a punishment because of their criminal offense. As a result, Hector comes across a long-standing friendship between Armendáriz, Lucio, Ferreras and Miralles.

Contrary to Carreño's instructions, Hector speaks to Armendáriz, who openly admits that, due to the general lack of voluntary liquidators, he employs men who have become criminally and psychiatrically conspicuous and who are forced to do their work in return for being spared, either back in prison or the Needing psychiatry. After Armendáriz learns from Hector that the police are after Lucio, he orders that Lucio be withdrawn from the manhunt. While it becomes increasingly clear to Alfredo that Hector is also hiding something about the events at the campsite and Barrero's death, Hector tricks him and continues investigating without him. At a gas station in the exclusion zone, Hector discovers one of the men Lucio is chasing injured. Meanwhile, after a chase, Martín seizes Dani and Julia comes into contact with the engineer Fernando, who works in the power plant control room and is one of the recent sick notes.

The injured liquidator discovered by Hector, as well as Dani and Fernando, tell of the events five days ago, which are shown in a longer flashback: During construction work at the power plant, liquidators accidentally cut power lines, which means that not only the normal, but also the emergency power supply failed. Because this and a leak in the cooling water supply meant that the cooling of the reactor no longer worked, there was a risk of an accident on a larger scale than three years ago. In order to guarantee the cooling at least until replacement generators arrive, some people would have to open a valve for the inflow of borated water, but to do so expose themselves to a highly lethal dose of radioactivity. Laura, as the head of the nuclear power plant with Fernando in the control room, asked Armendáriz to use some men from ARV. When the liquidators designated by Armendáriz 'foremen refused, Barrero unwittingly gave them the drug Captagon to make them compliant. The plan failed, however, the men became furious and attacked each other, killing two of them. The other four fled and therefore had Lucio hunted down Armendáriz. Dani surprised another man while eating the two bodies. Due to the lack of help from ARV, Laura finally crossed the contaminated area herself with two helpers, was then flown out and no longer seen.

In the present, Armendáriz has Hector kidnapped and, heavily drugged, tied up in the exclusion zone, while Hector is discredited on television by a video showing him inserting a sachet of heroin and being leaked to the press by Ferrera. Zoe frees Hector and sobering him up before he arrests Almendáriz and, on Julia's initiative, tells his version of the story to a journalist in order to expose the culprits. Meanwhile, the last fugitive liquidator Krusty is about to go into the nuclear power plant to detonate a TATP bomb inside . Martín and Alfredo are able to catch him shortly before entering the power station, where the bomb explodes and Alfredo dies. Ferreras denies guilty of any corruption. For the investigators, the identity of the man who ate the body parts remains open.

production

The series was co-produced by the Spanish pay TV broadcaster and video-on-demand provider Movistar + , which belongs to the Telefónica group, and ZDFneo .

Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo told Variety that he and his brother drew inspiration for the scripts for the series from feature films, which include classic westerns and Blade Runner and Alien . The brothers put the time for the creation of the scripts at 16 months.

Furthermore, the Sánchez-Cabezudo brothers named the disasters of Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011 as sources of inspiration for the told story . Similar to the way in which the Yakuza recruited homeless or highly indebted people for clean-up work in contaminated areas after the disaster in Fukushima , it also exists in the series La Zona poor people who risk their health for the decontamination work.

Filming began on March 27, 2017 and was scheduled to last 15 weeks. Two crews shot 170 different sets , Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo told Variety.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbed version was produced by Berliner Synchron . The dialogue book author and dialogue director was Beate Gerlach .

actor Role name Voice actor role
Eduard Fernández Hector Uría Detlef Bierstedt Inspector, ex-husband of Marta Carcedo, father of Esther Uria
Álvaro Cervantes Martín Garrido Peter Lontzek inspector
Alexandra Jiménez Julia Martos Sabine Arnhold Doctor, friend of Hector Uría
Manolo Solo Alfredo Asunción Sebastian Christoph Jacob Inspector from Madrid
Marina Salas Esther Uría Alice Bauer Adviser to Ferreras, daughter of Hector Uría and Marta Carcedo
Josean Bengoetxea Luis Carreño Thomas Schmuckert Chief inspector
Juan Codina Manuel Montero Michael Bauer Father of Zoe
Alba Galocha Zoe Montero Manja Doering Smuggler
Sergio Peris-Mencheta Aurelio Barrero Matti Klemm Drug dealer, employee of Fausto Armendáriz
Juan Echanove Fausto Armendáriz
alias Don Fausto		 Uli Krohm Managing director of the cleaning company ARV
Pau Durà Ferreras Till Hagen Government Commissioner
Emma Suarez Marta Carcedo Sabine Mazay Ex-wife of Hector Uría, mother of Esther Uría
Karlos Sastre Danielle "Dani" Gutierrez Sebastian Fitzner Barrero's helpers
Luis Zahera Lucio Reinhard Scheunemann Hunter, assistant to Fausto Armendáriz

publication

Episode list
No. Original title Spanish
premiere
1 En tierra de nadie Oct. 27, 2017
2 Control animal 0Nov 2, 2017
3 El Balneario 0Nov 9, 2017
4th Insomnio Nov 16, 2017
5 La Iluvia 23 Nov 2017
6th El mal necessario Nov 30, 2017
7th Pérdida accidental de refrigerante 07th Dec 2017
8th El último lobo Dec 14, 2017

The series was first broadcast on television from October 27 to December 14 on a weekly basis on the pay-TV channel Movistar + . Previously, on October 12, 2017, the series or parts of it had been screened at the Sitges Film Festival .

All eight episodes appeared in German for the first time on June 1, 2019. From that day on, they were available as video-on-demand in the ZDFmediathek . In the time before 10 p.m. this was only possible with age authorization due to the FSK -16 approval. It also broadcasts ZDFneo weekly in pairs, also starting on June 1st. In the German dubbed version, the episodes do not have a German title. The release of the German version on DVD and Blu-ray is announced for June 24, 2019.

Awards

The series was nominated for Spanish film and television awards in several categories in 2018. There were two nominations for the Fotogramas de Plata : for Eduard Fernández as best television actor and for the audience award for the best Spanish series. For the Premios Feroz , the series was proposed in the four television series categories of Best Actress ( Alexandra Jiménez ), Best Actor (Eduard Fernández), Best Supporting Actress ( Emma Suárez ) and Best Drama Series , of which the last two also received awards. Jiménez was also nominated for Best Actress by the Spanish Acting Association.

criticism

There was praise for the series from German critics. The film service, for example, rated them with four out of five possible stars and rated them as ambitious, the performance of the actors as impressive and the story told as multifaceted. When online , the series was recommended as one of the best of June of 2019. Author Daniel Gerhardt found it to be best “when she follows her characters into the woods of the exclusion zone - and watches them slowly become zombies under permanent radiation.” On the other hand, as a political game of intrigue, she remains “underdeveloped”. In the FAZ , the critic Oliver Junge said that the series succeeded “excellently” in “evoking the atmosphere around the exclusion zone that is determined by sadness, anger and fear” and that it is “the eye that is always attentive to details and incidents” award them. Due to the sensitive figure drawing, her central message is also believable, namely that in "this almost altar-worthy hell [...] it is the longings that go beyond bare needs" that distinguish people from monsters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Jungs: Don't play with zone children , in: FAZ from June 1, 2019, accessed on June 15, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Jamie Lang: 'La Zona' Jumps Genres for Thrills , in: Variety, Oct. 15, 2017, accessed on June 15, 2019
  3. ↑ Michael Tokarski: "La Zona: Do not Cross" - Sinister look into the future , in: Web presence of the Golden Camera from May 29, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2019
  4. ↑ Movistar announces international distribution agreements for 3 of its original series , Sky Vision press release , April 2, 2017, accessed June 15, 2019
  5. ↑ a b La Zona - Do Not Cross. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ cf. Episode guide at fernsehserien.de , accessed on June 17, 2019
  7. ↑ Release Info , in: IMDb , accessed on June 17, 2019
  8. ↑ Awards , in: IMDb , accessed June 17, 2019
  9. ^ La Zona - Do not cross. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ^ Daniel Gerhardt: Murder in the exclusion zone: "La Zona - Do not cross" , in: Daniel Gerhardt, Marietta Steinhart and others: The best TV series in June , in: Zeit online from June 1, 2019, accessed on June 30 2019
  11. ↑ Oliver Junge: Doesn't play with zone children , in: FAZ from June 1, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2019