Miss Fisher's mysterious murders
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Miss Fisher's mysterious murders |
| Original title | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2012-2015 |
| Production company |
Every Cloud Productions |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 34 in 3 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Crime series , drama |
| Theme music | Miss Fisher's Theme - Greg J. Walker |
| idea | Deb Cox Fiona Eagger |
| production | Deb Cox Fiona Eagger |
| First broadcast | February 24, 2012 (Australia) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 7, 2014 on Sony Entertainment Television |
| occupation | |
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (Original title: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ) is an Australian crime series based on the novel series Phryne Fisher Mysteries of Kerry Greenwood is based, and in the late 1920s in Melbourne plays. All novels are also published in German. With production costs averaging € 650,000 per episode, Miss Fisher is one of the most expensive television productions in Australia. In the meantime, the series has been sold in over 120 countries and gained an ever-increasing fan base internationally. The first of a total of three seasons comprises 13 episodes of 60 minutes each and was first broadcast on the Australian broadcaster ABC 1 on February 24, 2012.
Every Cloud Productions announced in 2018 that the stories of Miss Fisher will be retold with a film (Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears) from October 2018. This film was financed, among other things, by crowdfunding and it was released in Australian cinemas in February 2020.
People and action
Phryne Fisher was born around 1890 and grew up with her younger sister Janey in Melbourne in a rather poor environment. During the First World War she was used as a military nurse in Europe and after the end of the war initially stayed in Paris, where she lived as a model in artistic circles. After several relatives of her father had died in the war, the latter surprisingly inherited the British title of baronet and a large fortune. As the daughter of a baronet, Phryne now bears the title The Honorable (literally "The Honorable"), and a significant portion of the inherited fortune is apparently hers personally.
After living in Great Britain for some time, Phryne returned to her hometown of Melbourne in 1928. There she is immediately confronted with a puzzling murder case and, to the displeasure of the local police, decides to intervene in the investigation. Since she doesn't care about any conventions, she quickly finds access to crucial information that remains closed to the authorities. She is energetic, intelligent and fearless and in this way wins over time the respect of the capable inspector Jack Robinson, who lets her participate in his investigations in the subsequent episodes. A constant erotic tension develops between the detective and the inspector, but this does not prevent Phryne from finding other lovers in some episodes.
In parallel to the main characters, Phryne's partner and assistant Dorothy and the policeman Hugh, who are more conventional and reserved and are shown from their first meeting in the first episode of the first season to their wedding in the last episode of the last season, act as a second couple. With them, conservative moral concepts and denominational differences are also addressed.
The recurring characters include the doctor Dr. Elizabeth MacMillan, as an old friend of Phrynes - partly officially, partly privately - brings medical expertise to the investigation and autopsies various murder victims , as well as Phrynes also wealthy maternal aunt, the widowed Mrs. Prudence Stanley, whose estate is the scene of the plot several times, and whose complex family relationships play a role in several cases. Bert and Cec, two war veterans who earn their small livelihood with a taxi together, cross Phryne's path in the very first episode and become reliable helpers to her, although the two, as staunch communists, actually see loyal relationships with an aristocrat and a police inspector as a contradiction in terms.
A cross-episode storyline of the first season is the initially unexplained, for Phryne traumatic kidnapping or murder of her younger sister Janey in childhood. Much evidence leads to Murdoch Foyle as the alleged perpetrator, but it is only in the season finale that Phryne and Jack Foyle discover the motive for the ritual murder at that time and the removal of several witnesses.
In the third season Phryne's father appears, with whom daughter and sister-in-law (Aunt Prudence) have a strained relationship. In an effort to cope with his problems alone without burdening Phryne with them, he hinders the investigation in two cases. In the season finale she discovers his secrets and can solve his difficulties with a murder case. In the end, Phryne flies with him - after he has missed his ship - in a two-seater plane so that he can get back to Great Britain in time and thus save her parents' marriage. Although Phryne's relationship with Jack seems to be entering a new, more stable stage towards the end of the season, the end of the flight remains open for the two of them.
Phryne Fisher's peculiarity is that she is a modern character even for today. She freely decides on her relationships, owns a telephone, can handle cars and airplanes, and skillfully uses weapons that she has carried with her, such as revolvers and throwing knives. As a member of the British aristocracy who grew up in simple circumstances, she found access to members of the most varied of social classes - from the social elite (which is strongly related to the British dominant culture and thus aristocratic) to illegal immigrants, alcoholic unemployed or desperate young girls in a correctional facility.
Typology
Phryne Fisher belongs to the type of "gentleman detectives" with which British authors have reacted since the 1890s to the problem that the police only recruited their employees from the middle class, for whom effective investigative work in the aristocratic upper class is impossible due to the strong social stratification of society was while they could apply enough pressure to the underlayer. The upper class (in the USA defined solely by wealth instead of the nobility) was obviously a particularly interesting milieu for crime stories for the readership. The "gentleman detective" has access to the upper class and precise knowledge of its conventions and social interrelationships, at the same time he has no financial interests of his own and only follows his ideal of justice. Typically, he mostly cooperates successfully with the police, although in many cases there are also conflicts of interest.
While parallels to Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple can be seen in the first episodes , who as a woman is initially not taken seriously by the police in principle, but can better approach suspicious witnesses or suspects, the overall similarities to Dorothy L. Sayers ' hero are Lord Peter Wimsey is much bigger: The son of a British ducal family is extremely wealthy and therefore highly independent, he drives an expensive car and has a butler with additional qualifications that are important for investigative work, he builds a close relationship that turns into friendship and ultimately even family connection with the investigating police inspector. The occasional reference to the First World War is also something they have in common, but in Phryne Fisher's cases the references to the criminal cases are more direct. While the stories about Lord Peter (eleven novels and several short stories) take place between approx. 1922 and the Second World War and show long-term developments in the main characters, Phryne Fisher solves her 34 cases in the two years 1928 and 1929.
The new components Greenwood introduced in the comparison of the two figures include the strongly emancipatory character of Phrynes (including the "reconciliation" with strictly conservative points of view that was inherent in Dorothy's development) and the love relationship with Jack , which was thwarted by her reluctance to sexual permissiveness and social differences. In various interviews with Greenwood, Cox and Eagger, the intention becomes clear to make the character Phryne Fisher a pioneer of individualistic emancipation and a kind of early action heroine .
Trivia
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The high production costs also result from the care that has been taken to ensure the time-related authenticity of locations, clothing and other details of the equipment. The Wardlow House in Melbourne's Parkville suburb , built in 1888, functions as Phryne Fisher's house in Melbourne , the house number (seen e.g. in episode I-9, broadcast minute 8) is in the series 221B - a reference to Sherlock Holmes ' residence, 221B Baker Street in London. Aunt Prudence's spacious estate is the Rippon Lea Estate in Elsternwick. Both objects are under monument protection. One of the most valuable props is Phrynes' exclusive car, shown in many episodes, a Hispano-Suiza H 6 built in 1923 with a touring car body from the private collection of an Australian collector.
As an additional parallel to the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, it appears that some of them were filmed by the BBC in the early 1970s with a similarly elaborate and in love with contemporary details - as well as with a comparably large audience success .
Cast and dubbing
The series is synchronized by SDI Media Germany GmbH (Berlin), directed by Bernhard Völger .
| Role name (function) | Actress | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hon. Phryne Fisher | Essie Davis | Daniela Hoffmann |
| Detective Inspector John Robinson, known as "Jack" | Nathan Page | Gerrit Hamann |
| Dorothy Williams, known as "Dot" or "Dotty" (partner and assistant to Phrynes) | Ashleigh Cummings | Maria Hönig |
| Constable Hugh Collins (Assistant to Jack) | Hugo Johnstone-Burt | Konrad Bösherz |
| Tobias Butler (Butler) | Richard Bligh | Till Hagen |
| Bert (war veteran, taxi driver, communist, loyal helper to Phrynes) | Travis McMahon | Rainer Doering |
| Cec (war veteran, taxi driver, communist, loyal helper to Phrynes) | Anthony Sharpe | Bernhard Völger |
| Dr. Elizabeth MacMillan, known as "Mac" (doctor, friend of Phryne) | Tammy MacIntosh | Heath Domanowski |
| Jane (Phrynes Ward) | Ruby Rees-Wemyss | Sarah Tkotsch |
| Prudence Stanley (Phrynes aunt) | Miriam Margolyes | Margot Rothweiler |
| Murdoch Foyle (serial killer) | Nicholas Bell | Eberhard Haar |
| Henry George Fisher, Baronet of Richmond (Phryne's father) | Pip Miller | Eberhard Haar |
Awards
| year | Award | category | Nominees | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | ||||
| Australian Production Design Guild Awards | Best costume | Marian Boyce | nominated | |
| Best design | Robert Perkins | nominated | ||
| Screen Music Awards | Best Music (Series) | Greg J. Walker | nominated | |
| Best theme music | nominated | |||
| 2013 | AACTA Awards | Best main actress | Essie Davis | nominated |
| Logie Awards | Most popular actress | Ashleigh Cummings | nominated | |
| Equity Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Series 1 cast | nominated | |
| 2014 | AACTA Awards | Best costumes | Marion Boyce | won |
| Logie Awards | Most Popular Actress | Essie Davis | nominated | |
| Most Popular Series (Drama) | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | nominated | ||
| Most popular actress | Essie Davis | nominated | ||
| Equity Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Series 2 cast | nominated |
Web links
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website of Every Cloud Productions
- Official website of ABC
- Official website of Sony Entertainment Television
- Miss Fisher's mysterious murders on Fernsehserien.de
- Miss Fisher's Mysterious Murder Cases (AUS 2012-). In: 215072.homepagemodules.de. Retrieved April 30, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ^ Martha Hailey Dubose: Women of Mystery. The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists. Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2011, ISBN 9780312276553 , p. 215.
- ↑ cf. Interview sequences in the bonus material of the DVD editions
- ↑ German synchronous index | Series | Miss Fisher's mysterious murders. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Miss Fisher's Mysterious Murder Cases. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 3, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Haar dubbed the serial killer Foyle in the first season, a police officer in one episode of the second season and Phryne's father in three episodes of the third season.
- ↑ APDG awards shortlist announced . Mumbrella. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
- ↑ Nominations . In: Screen Music Awards . Australasian Performing Right Association . Retrieved October 25, 2012.
- ^ Brian Ward: Essie in line for award double . In: The Mercury , News Limited , January 27, 2013. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ↑ Holly Byrnes: Comic duo Hamish Blake and Andy Lee to battle each other for Gold Logie . In: The Daily Telegraph , News Limited , March 11, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
- ↑ 3rd Equity Ensemble Awards - Winners announced! , Equity Foundation ( Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance ). May 3, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
- ↑ David Knox: AACTA Awards 2014: nominations . TV Tonight . December 4, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Gatsby dominates 1st round of AACTA awards . In: Nine News . January 28, 2014. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ 2014 Logie Awards: full list of nominees . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Equity Ensemble Awards 2014 - Voting Now Open! , Equity Foundation ( Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance ). April 1, 2014. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2014.