Protectors - To life and death

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Television series
German title Protectors - To life and death
Original title Livvagterne
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Year (s) 2008-2010
length 90 or 55 minutes
Episodes 10 (D) / 20 (DK) + DVD in 2 (5/10 episodes each) seasons
genre Crime , drama
music Jacob Groth
First broadcast January 1, 2009
German-language
first broadcast
October 25, 2009 on ZDF
occupation
  • Cecilie Stenspil - Jasmina El-Murad
  • Søren Vejby - Rasmus Poulsen
  • André Babikian - Jonas Goldschmidt
  • Thomas W. Gabrielsson - Leon Hartvig Jensen
  • Ditte Gråbøl - ​​Diana Pedersen
  • Tommy Kenter - Jørgen Boas
  • Rasmus Bjerg - 'Lille Kurt' Birk
  • Ellen Hillingsø - Benedict 'Tønne' Tønnesen
  • Michael Sand - Store Kurt
  • Benjamin Boe Rasmussen - Trikker
  • Kim Jansson - Fjorby

Protectors - Auf Leben und Tod (Original title: Livvagterne ) is an award-winning Danish crime series , which was broadcast there in 2 seasons of 10 parts each. The series was produced by the Danish public broadcaster DR in cooperation with ZDF .

action

The plot revolves around bodyguards of a Copenhagen special unit of the Danish police . The bodyguards are each entrusted with guarding a particularly endangered person out of politics or the public interest and must ensure that nothing happens to the person entrusted to them. While each episode is basically about the solution of a case, it is also about current trends in Danish society, such as B. dealing with religious minorities, Islamism, women in a community of men like the special task force etc. The series belongs to the group of high quality and lavishly shot Scandinavian productions ( Scandinavian Noir ) like Wallander or the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson .

format

A season consists of ten episodes each 55 minutes in length. For the first broadcast, ZDF combined two episodes into one and shortened these double episodes to 101 to 109 minutes each.

The individual cases were broadcast on ZDF in the Sunday crime series at 10 p.m. On average, over two million viewers followed the German premieres.

DVD publications

Germany

  • Season 1 was released on November 23, 2009
  • Season 2 was released on August 15, 2011

Awards

The series won an Emmy for Best Non-American Crime Series in 2009 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ZDF Enterprises Coproduction "The Protectors" awarded International Emmy® for Best Drama Series ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf-enterprises.de
  2. SpiegelOnline: Popular award for ZDF series