Motel (Swiss TV series)
| Television series | |
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| Original title | motel |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| year | 1984 |
| Episodes | 40 |
| Theme music | Dire Straits - Telegraph Road |
| First broadcast | January 8, 1984 (Switzerland) on Swiss television (DRS) |
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Motel is one of the most successful Swiss television series from the 1980s and was first broadcast during 1984. The action took place in a motel in Egerkingen in the Swiss canton of Solothurn . The episodes were shot while the motel was still in operation.
Since July 2020, SRF has been broadcasting all episodes as a repeat on SRF 1 and making them available on the Internet.
production
The 40 episode series was a TV DRS production . The individual episodes were filmed from Monday to Thursday and broadcast on Sunday evening. In this way current topics could be taken up. Authors of the series were among others Hanspeter Gschwend and Lukas Hartmann . In 1994 the series, which was originally spoken in Swiss German, ran in a shortened and dubbed version on 3sat .
The theme tune for Motel was "Telegraph Road" by the British group Dire Straits .
Media coverage
The series was the subject of intense coverage, mainly in the Swiss tabloid Blick with editor-in-chief Peter Uebersax . The reason for this was that the series showed controversial topics for the time, such as drug use , homosexuality and nudity. The series was the first to show a kiss between two men and a woman's nipples on TV at prime time. The series was generally criticized for showing a gray and sad everyday life.
actor
The main characters in the series were Jörg Schneider , Silvia Jost and Dani Levy .
Web links
- Motel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Motel - memories of the cultural series (SRF archive)
- Motel on SRF.ch
swell
- ^ SRF morning guest Dani Levy , July 3, 2020
- ↑ Mani Neubacher: "Motel" back on TV - with this series the SRF lost its innocence. In: SRF.ch, July 14, 2020.
- ↑ Motel on SRF.ch
- ^ "Motel" in a NZZ Folio ( Memento from August 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Swiss television media relations: Motel . Program portrait, as of January 2003, accessed on May 21, 2010
- ↑ Erich Aschwanden: TV series "Motel". A gay love scene excites the nation. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 18, 2017.