Night shift (film series)
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Night shift |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | since 2002 |
| Production company |
Network Movie (ZDF) |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Episodes | 16+ ( list ) |
| genre | Detective film series |
| First broadcast | March 24, 2003 on ZDF |
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Night Shift is the title of a German crime film series by director and screenwriter Lars Becker . The series is produced for ZDF .
Idea and concept
The main characters of the "Night Shift" police film series are four officers from the night shift cast of the Criminal Police Service (KDD) in Hamburg : Chief Inspector Erich Bo Erichsen ( Armin Rohde ), Chief Inspector Paula Bloom until 2005 ( Katharina Böhm ), Lisa Brenner from 2005 ( Barbara Auer ), Commissioner Mimi Hu ( Minh-Khai Phan-Thi ) and until 2008 ( serial death in the episode I'm Afraid ) the police officer Teddy Schrader ( Ken Duken ). Erichsen is the experienced street policeman on the night shift team, Bloom is a police psychologist. The two newcomers Schrader and Hu represent the younger generation in the police force.
In contrast to conventional crime series, the “Night Shift” films do not focus on the solution of a case, but rather on the dynamics of the respective plot and the people who are involved. The first four “Night Shift” films focused primarily on the small and large disasters that often provide the background for police work and condensed them into film noir- influenced city thrillers : bank robbery with hostage-taking (amok!) , The relationship of convicted offenders to their children (Father's Day) , violence against women (death in the supermarket) and the spectacle of a prison breakout (The Breakout) .
The main storyline of the individual episodes is compressed to the cycle of a night shift - from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The staging style , which is strongly based on the neo-noir thriller , also falls outside the framework of the usual police series . The individual films in the “Night Shift” series have the character of a feature film because of their length . However, certain storylines recur again and again - such as the question of the financial background of Chief Inspector Erich Bo Erichsen. The unanswered question of whether Erichsen managed to get the booty aside for himself when the former stage roadie Randy Schlosser was arrested is a more or less important theme in all night shift films.
Genre and Actor
Lars Becker, known so far mainly for big city films such as Kanak Attack (1996) or Save your skin , remained true to his kind of dramaturgy in the ZDF-produced series "Nachtschicht". He described the concept behind the series in a ddp interview as follows: “When it comes to substances, I am always interested in the relationships between people and how they relate to one another - regardless of whether they are powerful or powerless.” This is reflected in the fact that different suspects in be housed together in a transparent cell. This situation often gives the permanent criminal service information for their investigations. In the pursuit of relatively harmless crimes, investigators sometimes come across serious crimes. His wife Fana Becker was responsible for the costume design for the series. The series was heavily influenced by the down to the supporting roles prominent cast of known actors - such as the former VIVA presenter Charlotte Roche in a scene as a supermarket cashier or Götz George in the tenth row in a lead role.
The director's continuity in casting roles was noticeable in two ways in the “Night Shift” series - on the one hand through secondary characters who appear in several episodes, such as Rosa's friend, the taxi driver Floyd ( Ill-Young Kim ). Some actors embody different characters in different episodes: Ercan Durmaz in Amok, for example ! the neighbors of Rosa, on Father's Day the Outcast Santini. The supporting cast Oscar Ortega Sánchez went through a similar change : If he was seen in the first episode as the owner of an Italian espresso bar , he was the operator of a strip shop in the red-light district in the follow-up Father's Day . There was also a break in the episode Father's Day with the district management of the KDD : Instead of the usual Pierre Semmler , Christian Redl played the immediate superior of the night shift troop for one episode . In the meantime, Peter Kremer played the role that Özgür Karadeniz has since taken over. The neo-Nazi and serious criminal Alfons Töfting also appears several times, initially in a bank robbery in amok! and finally in The Outbreak where he is shot. A block of flats keeps popping up in the fictional Kennedyring.
Episode list
| episode | title | Director | script | Premiere | First broadcast ( ZDF ) | Episode actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amok! | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | - | March 24, 2003 | Uwe Ochsenknecht , Charlotte Roche , Cosma Shiva Hagen , Florian Lukas |
| 2 | Fathers day | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | - | March 22, 2004 | Jasmin Gerat , Anja Kling , Wotan Wilke Möhring , Axel Prahl |
| 3 | Death in the supermarket | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | Sep 24 2005 Hamburg Film Festival | Jan. 23, 2006 | Devid Striesow , Susanne Bormann , Henriette Heinze , Christian Redl |
| 4th | The outbreak | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | October 8, 2006 Hamburg Film Festival | Jan. 29, 2007 | Martin Brambach , Jan Josef Liefers , Anna Loos , Florian Lukas, Bela B. |
| 5 | I'm afraid | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | - | Jan. 28, 2008 | Ulrike Krumbiegel , Matthias Brandt , Manuel Cortez , Claudia Mehnert , Sandra Borgmann |
| 6th | Bloody city | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | - | Jan. 26, 2009 | Sibel Kekilli , Maja Maranow , Fritz Karl , Uwe Kockisch |
| 7th | We are the police | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | October 1, 2009 Hamburg Film Festival | Jan. 18, 2010 | Roeland Wiesnekker , Oliver Stokowski , Elyas M'Barek , Cosma Shiva Hagen |
| 8th | The dead girl | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | October 3, 2010 Hamburg Film Festival | Nov. 18, 2010 ( ZDFneo ) | Jürgen Prochnow , Dietmar Bär , Anna Schudt , Kai Wiesinger |
| 9 | One murder too many | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | - | Jan. 17, 2011 | Nora von Waldstätten , Martin Brambach , Mišel Matičević , Joachim Król , Katja Flint , Olli Dittrich |
| 10 | Journey to death | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | October 5th, 2011 Filmfest Hamburg | Jan. 13, 2012 | Christian Redl, Clemens Schick , Götz George , Liz Baffoe |
| 11 | Money makes the world go round | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | 28 Sep 2012 Hamburg Film Festival | Jan. 20, 2013 ( ZDFneo ) | Ben Becker , Fahri Yardim |
| 12 | We are all not angels | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | - | Apr 27, 2015 | Alina Levshin , Katrin Bauerfeind , Clemens Schick, Hans-Jochen Wagner |
| 13 | The last job | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | - | Feb. 1, 2016 | Jan Georg Schütte , Maja Maranow, Florian Lukas, Rainer Bock |
| 14th | Ladies first | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | October 1, 2016 Hamburg Film Festival | Feb. 20, 2017 | Nora Waldstätten, Jürgen Vogel , Henry Hübchen |
| 15th | Long live death | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | October 2, 2018 Hamburg Film Festival | Nov 12, 2018 | Natalia Wörner , Frederick Lau , Murathan Muslu , Almila Bagriacik , Roland Koch , Gustav-Peter Wöhler , Kida Khodr Ramadan |
| 16 | Cash & Carry | Lars Becker | Lars Becker | September 27, 2019 Hamburg Film Festival | 4th May 2020 | Benno Fürmann , Pit Bukowski , Friederike Becht , Albrecht Ganskopf , Nadeshda Brennicke , Liz Baffoe , Hassan Akkouch , Maximilian Brückner , Lorna Ishema |
Success and criticism
The broadcast of the first film in the series was extremely successful. With a total of 5.7 million viewers, the first “night shift” broadcast on March 25, 2003 as the TV film of the week had a market share of 17.3 percent. The film was also well received by the critics. The TV magazine Prisma ruled amok! : "A tight story, consistently good actors, upbeat dialogues and the necessary portion of tension." In 2004 this debut episode was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize , as was the seventh episode Wir sind die Polizei 2011; most of the episodes ran in the competition for television films at the Hamburg Film Festival . In addition to the first broadcast on the producing station ZDF, the episodes already filmed were repeated several times on TV; Amok! for example as part of the 3sat audience award at the end of 2006. After being broadcast on television, all episodes of the series have been available on DVD since 2007 and 2015 respectively.
Others
In an interview with ZDF-online, the leading actress Katharina Böhm praised the socio-critical attitude of the series in particular: “I find something very nice about › Night Shift ‹ that the film casts an image on this society. To a society in which children starve to death in an apartment and neighbors say: 'It's none of my business that they scream, they always scream.' It has a lot to do with looking away. In this society there are so many extreme situations because we simply no longer take care of each other and no longer live together. "
Web links
- Night shift in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Night shift at Fernsehserien.de
- Night shift on the ZDF side of the broadcast
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press kit: The ZDF at the Hamburg Film Festival 2018: ZDF press portal. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.filmfesthamburg.de/de/programm/Film/32642/Nachtschicht_Cash_Carry
- ↑ http://www.networkmovie.de/nachtschicht-cash-and-carry/
- ↑ Night shift: Amok! at prisma.de, accessed on January 22, 2013