Murder on page one
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German title | Murder on page one |
Original title | State of Play |
Country of production | Great Britain |
original language | English |
year | 2003 |
length | 52 minutes |
Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
genre | thriller |
idea | Paul Abbott |
production | Hilary Bevan Jones |
music | Nicholas Hooper |
First broadcast | May 18, 2003 (UK) on BBC One |
German-language first broadcast |
January 5th, 2008 on ARTE |
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State of Play (Original title: State of Play ) is an award-winning British miniseries of the BBC in 2003. It was directed by David Yates . The series was first broadcast in Germany in 2008 on ARTE .
Complete plot
Stephen Collins from Manchester , member of the British House of Commons , married with two children, has had a steep career in politics and is considered a candidate for higher things. His assistant Sonia Baker dies under mysterious circumstances. At the same time, a colored teenager dies, presumably a drug trafficking settlement . Reporter Cal McAffrey, an old friend of Collins, sniffs a story. The cynical editor-in-chief Foster provides him with an experienced team of journalists .
It quickly emerges that Collins had an affair with Sonia. His ailing marriage to Anne is in jeopardy. She travels to London and relieves her husband, but in turn begins an affair with Cal. Meanwhile, the series of murders continues: the teenager's killer tries to eliminate the only witness to the murder, but instead catches a police officer. The trail leads to oil lobbyists : Collins and his team were on the verge of reaching extensive environmental protection agreements. Apparently, however, Sonia acted as an informant for the oil industry and sent her important information. Dominic Foy seems to play a key role, on whose heels the reporter team is now attached.
The teenager's killer is caught when he tries to take out Cal, to whom he leaked important documents. He dies without giving any indication of his employer. Soon after, Foy reveals information about the agreement between Sonia and the lobby company, and the team is finally back on track. Collins, meanwhile, takes a flight forward after learning that party leaders knew about Sonia's activities. He refuses an impending political rise and instead works with Cal on an investigative story about the events, despite knowing about his affair with his wife.
But then, in the last part, the story clears up, in a direction completely unexpected by the journalists: It was not the oil lobby that was to blame for the death of Sonia and the other victims, but Collins himself. He had a former soldier, the killer , set to monitor them. According to Collins, however, he began to act on his own out of admiration for him. In the end, the lead the newspaper can come up with is not the political story it was hoping for, but a sex-and-crime story about a stumbled MP.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was established in 2008 after a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Frank Wesel by the synchronous company TaunusFilm GmbH Synchron AG in Berlin .
background
Screenwriter Paul Abbott said of the making of the book that he wrote the story without ever stepping into a newspaper office . Journalists had told him, however, that he had exactly met the atmosphere of a newsroom in which a large part of the series takes place. Especially in the editorial office, but also in the rest of the venues, the creators of the series attached great importance to integrating background events into the film. For example, the extras in the background of the newsroom were assigned their own departments and tasks, which they should pursue independently of the main events in front of the camera in order to obtain as realistic as possible recordings.
Initially, after the success of the series, a second season with another case of the journalist team was planned, but this did not materialize. Instead, there was an American remake for the cinema, in which Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe played the leading roles. The Washington D. C. set film was released in April 2009 under the title State of Play .
Awards
Murder on page one has won several awards in international competitions, including:
BAFTA TV Award 2004
- Best Actor - Bill Nighy
- Best Editing (Fiction) - Mark Day
- Best Sound (Fiction) - Simon Okin, Stuart Hilliker, Jamie McPhee & Pat Boxshall
also nominated for:
- Best Actor - David Morrissey
- Best Drama Series - David Yates, Hilary Bevan Jones & Paul Abbott
- Best TV Music - Nicholas Hooper
- Best Cinematography (fiction) - Chris Seager
Cologne Conference 2004
- Best Fictional Program - David Yates
- Best Screenplay for a TV Movie or Miniseries - Paul Abbott
RTS Television Award 2004
- Best drama series
- Best Screenplay - Paul Abbott
also nominated for:
- Best Actor - Bill Nighy
RTS Television Award 2003
- Best Cinematography (Drama) - Chris Seager
also nominated for:
- Best Production Design (Drama) - Donal Woods
- Best Sound (Drama) - Simon Okin, Stuart Hilliker, Jamie McPhee & Pat Boxshall
- Best Editing (Drama) - Mark Day
Web links
- State of Play in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Page of the series on the BBC (English)
- Page of the German-language website of the BBC, including a detailed summary of the individual episodes
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Murder on page one. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 6, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Audio commentary on the British DVD version from 2005
- ^ IMDb info about the release of the movie of the same name
- ↑ a b c d e http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362192/awards , accessed on July 12, 2010