Noble House (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Noble house |
| Original title | Noble house |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 1988 |
| length | 355 minutes |
| Episodes | 4th |
| genre | Action , drama |
| idea |
James Clavell ( novel ), Eric Bercovici ( screenplay ) |
| production |
Eric Bercovici , Frederick Muller , James Clavell (executive producer), Gary Nelson ( director ) |
| music | Paul Chihara |
| camera | Cristiano Pogany |
| First broadcast | February 21, 1988 on NBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 26, 1988 on ZDF |
| occupation | |
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Noble House is the title of a 1988 US television series with Pierce Brosnan in the lead role. James Clavell's 1981 novel Noble House Hong Kong served as a template . While the novel is set in Hong Kong in the early 1960s , the series is set contemporary to its production time in the late 1980s . The setting is Hong Kong , which was then still under British administration . The sideshow is Macau . It is the second film adaptation of a work by James Clavell by the American television station NBC after Shogun .
content
Ian Dunross is the CEO of Struan & Co., Hong Kong's oldest and largest trading house. The Chinese therefore also refer to it as the “ Tai-Pan ” of the Noble House . The trading house gets into economic difficulties, whereupon Dunross asks for financial support from the American investor Linc Bartlett, CEO of Par-Con Industries . However, Bartlett is also in negotiations with Struan & Co.'s biggest competitor, Quillan Gornt, and is trying to gain power in the Noble House himself . Dunross is getting help from mainland China and Casey Tcholok, the vice president of Par-Con Industries . This leads to numerous intrigues.
synchronization
The German synchronization was created in 1988. Lutz Riedel directed the dialogue .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Dunross | Pierce Brosnan | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Casey Tcholok | Deborah Raffin | Karin Buchholz |
| Lincoln Bartlett | Ben Masters | Christian Rode |
| Quillan Gornt | John Rhys-Davies | Klaus Sunshine |
| Orlanda Ramos | Julia Nickson | Simone Brahmann |
| Four fingers Wu | Khigh Dhiegh | Gerd Duwner |
| Robert Armstrong | Gordon Jackson | Edgar Ott |
| Phillip Chen | Burt Kwouk | Eric Vaessen |
| Claudia Chen | Nancy Kwan | |
| Jacques DeVille | John van Dreelen | Peter Neusser |
| Paul Choy | Ping Wu | Stefan Krause |
| Brian Kwok | Kay Tong Lim | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Ah Tam | Lisa Lu | |
| Lando Mata | Damien Thomas | Lutz Riedel |
| Commissioner Roger Crosse | Dudley Sutton | Hermann Ebeling |
| Tsu-yan | Ric Young | Hans-Jürgen Dittberner |
| Venus Poon | Tia Carrere | Sabine Jaeger |
| John Chen | Steven Vincent Leigh | Nicolas Boell |
| Sir Geoffrey Allison | John Houseman | Helmut Heyne |
| Alastair Struan | Denholm Elliott | Heinz Giese |
Awards
Noble House in 1988 for the Emmy in 1989 for the ASC Award nomination.
TV broadcast
In Germany, Noble House was first broadcast by ZDF on December 26, 1988 . Further broadcasts in the public service program followed later. In recent years the television series has been shown on Premiere , Anixe and Tele 5 .
DVD release
After only DVD versions for the North American and Australian markets were released for a long time, such a version has also been available in Germany since April 17, 2009.
Web links
- Noble House in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Ian Dunross Noble House (1988) Mini-series Homepage ( Memento of October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Noble House ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on synchrondatenbank.de
