Real Humans - real people
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Real Humans - real people |
| Original title | Äkta masculine kor |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Year (s) | 2012-2014 |
| Production company |
Matador Film AB, SVT, DR, YLE |
| length | 58 minutes |
| Episodes | 20 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Science fiction |
| idea | Lars Lundström |
| production | Stefan Baron, Henrik Widman |
| music | Rikard Borggård |
| camera | Trolls Davidson |
| First broadcast | January 22, 2012 on SVT 1 |
| German-language first broadcast |
April 4, 2013 on Arte |
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Real Humans - Real people (original title: Akta människor , Swedish for Real People ) is a Swedish drama series with science fiction -elements from the year 2012 by Lars Lundström .
The central element of the series are human-like robot , called Hubots (short for Hu to Ro bots = Human robots). You can do tasks that are too complicated for ordinary machines. There are household robots that vacuum, do the washing up, work in the garden and prepare meals. Some can also drive and some are capable of sexual activity. There are robots for construction sites and for elderly care.
action
First season
In an unspecified area in Sweden: Most people have got used to the Hubots, while others are hostile to them.
Leo, Mimi, Niska, Max, Flash and Gordon belong to a group of "free" Hubots who make their own decisions and thus can and even want to live without an owner. This is illegal. They are on the run from the police and looking for a way to charge their batteries. While they are forcibly entering a house for this purpose, Mimi is stolen by two black market traders. Leo and Max separate from the group to look for Mimi. The rest of the group leaves the house the next morning. Without the others knowing, Niska kills the two residents so that they cannot inform the police.
Hans Engman visits a Hubot department store with his father-in-law Lennart to buy a replacement for Lennart's previous Hubot Odi, which is causing problems due to malfunctions. The seller sells you an expensive model, her name is Vera, with geriatric care functions and gives you a simple model free of charge that Hans would like to use as a domestic help for the family. Hans's wife, the lawyer Inger, is initially not very enthusiastic and only reluctantly allows the Hubot to stay with them. They give him the name Anita. Little did you know that Anita is the reprogrammed Mimi.
Roger works in a warehouse where, to his annoyance, Hubots do most of the work. His wife Therese leaves him with their son Kevin and Hubot Rick, whom they have illegally reprogrammed by Leo so that a sexual relationship is also possible. Roger then joins a group that opposes the use of the Hubots, where he learns the police officer Bea , who works for the special police unit "EHURB" ( E nheten för hu bot r elaterad b rottslighet = unit for Hubot crime), and the postman Malte know. The three decide to form an action group and not only to protest, but also to arouse their fellow human beings with deeds.
In the course of the ten episodes of the first season, the paths of the various protagonists cross again and again. In several complementary flashbacks one learns that Leo is the biological son of the doctor David Eischer: As a child, Leo had to watch his mother Beatrice (Bea) drowned in a swimming accident in a lake near the house. In the hopeless attempt to save her, Leo himself narrowly escaped death by drowning. Leo was brought ashore by the Hubot Mimi and fell into a permanent coma. David Eischer, unwilling to accept what happened, decided to at least "bring his son back to life" as a cyborg . Leo was then used by his father in a medical operation robotic hardware. His damaged brain was also supplemented by a digital memory. However, David Eischer could no longer save his wife Beatrice. He therefore decided to create Bea from scratch as Hubot. In addition to Leo and Bea, David Eischer also created the free Hubots Mimi, Niska, Fred, Flash, Gordon, Marylyn and Max, all of which he marked with DB (“David's Barn”, translated “David's children”) on the right forearm. He also improved the cognitive and emotional abilities of his “creatures” through a further developed Hubot software . The secret service tries by all means to discover the secret of the free Hubots.
At the end of season one, Leo is killed and all other free Hubots are destroyed except for Mimi, Bea, Marylyn, Gordon, and Flash. But Bea managed to save the software that turns normal Hubots into creatures with their own personality.
Second season
Six months later. The incomplete Eischer code from Bea's data stick, which Tobias Engman unintentionally uploaded to the Internet, behaves like a Trojan horse and infects and destroys Hubots. Silas, who went to jail for Jonas Boberg, is released, and Jonas makes him manager of Hub Battle Land, a paintball facility where people can fight against Hubots. Mimi lives with the Engman family and gets a job in the law firm where Inger works.
In the meantime, Bea was switched off and after being reactivated she goes in search of David Eischer's clone. David's mother, an elderly woman with dementia , tells her that the clone's body has been buried in David's place - according to this information, Bea kills David's mother to cover up traces. After David was exhumed, Bea discovered that the artificial brain was missing. It was kept by the wife of David Eischer's partner, who gives it to her son Jonas, who activates the theft protection and takes Bea and David with him to Hub Battle Land. Before that, Bea kills Jonas' mother and cuts off her finger, which can be used to deactivate the theft protection.
Flash, who now calls herself Florentine, wants to start a family and falls in love with Douglas Jarmeus, the stepson of Inger Engman's boss. Douglas initially does not notice that she is a Hubot, but when he finds out, he is initially repulsed, but manages to find Florentine in her hotel room, where she is about to commit suicide. He takes her home and the two eventually get married. The wedding takes place in the church where the group stopped earlier, and both are married by the priestess Asa from the first season. When they run into problems with the adoption agency, Florentine remembers her hotel neighbor, who is addicted to drugs and has a newborn, and makes an agreement with her to take over the child. Douglas manages to get his name on the child's birth certificate and the little family is perfect. However, Gordon doesn't see it that way and unceremoniously kills Douglas with a stun gun. After the murder, Florentine does not go with her brother, as Gordon planned, but casts him out. When inheritance disputes reveal that she is a Hubot, there is a lawsuit in which she and Mimi are awarded the same status as a real person. Nevertheless, she loses the adopted child because Douglas is not the biological father.
Jonas Boberg plans to transfer his ghost to a Hubot clone and forces David to reprogram the code, but David and Bea, who are held by Jonas in Hub Battle Land, have other plans. Grandfather Engman had a clone made of himself that, together with the housekeeper Vera, stirs up the entire Engman household. When Sofia downloads a dance program for her grandfather and installs it incorrectly, Tobias and Matilda take their grandfather and the Eischer code, which has meanwhile been completed by Mimi, with them to Einar, a transhuman Hubot friend who reprograms their grandfather and in doing so inadvertently frees them. Unfortunately, he transfers the entire data set at once, which causes great unrest in the grandfather. He then runs into town, where he is captured by the Hubsec. After some back and forth, he comes to Hub Battle Land, where David finally frees him and he meets his old companion Odi again, who is now only powered by cable because his batteries have been destroyed.
Mimi caught the virus while working in the law firm, and this brings back, among other things, the old memories of Yun Moon, of which she is originally a clone. Mimi testifies as a witness in Florentine's trial, while Hans searches for Mimi's relatives in Korea and brings her biological brother to the trial. Whose statement signifies a turning point in the Florentine trial. Jonas Boberg remembers his old friend Einar and forces him to give him the code. In the Hub Battle Land, he compares Einar's code with the one that David has reprogrammed and finds differences that lead him to try the new code first on David's clone, which destroys it. Finally, Roger, who still loves Bea, frees her from her prison, and together they both free all Hubots from the Hub Battle Land with the Eischer code. After Roger and Bea leave the Hub Battle Land with the freed Hubots, Silas returns with a battery for Odi. In the last scene you can see Tobias watching over Mimi, who is still infected, while Bea enters the room.
Charisma
The first broadcast of the first season took place from January 22, 2012 on the Swedish broadcaster SVT 1. The German first broadcast of the first season took place from April 4, 2013 on Arte . The second season was broadcast by Arte from December 1, 2013 on SVT 1 and from May 15, 2014 on German television.
synchronization
The series was set to music by Hamburger Synchron. Kira Uecker wrote the dialogue books and directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Leo Eischer | Andreas Wilson | Leonhard Mahlich |
| Mimi / Anita | Lisette Pagler | Celine Fontanges |
| Beatrice "Bea" Eischer / Novak | Marie Robertson | Schaukje Könning |
| Inger Engman | Pia Halvorsen | Arianne Borbach |
| Hans Engman | Johan Paulsen | David C. Bunners |
| Tobias "Tobbe" Engman | Kåre Hedebrant | Anton Wilms |
| Matilda Engman | Natalie Minnevik | Leonie Landa |
| Sofia Engman | Aline Palmstierna | |
| Lennart Sollberg | Sten Elfström | Achim Schülke |
| Roger Larsson | Leif Andrée | Rainer Schmitt |
| Kevin | Fredrik Silbersky | Tim Kreuer |
| Therese | Camilla Larsson | Traudel Sparrowhawk |
| Douglas | Alexander Karim | Tobias Schmidt |
| Flash / Florentine | Josephine Alhanko | Mia Diekow |
| Gordon | André Sjöberg | Tobias Diakow |
| Marylyn | Saunet Sparell | Lo Rivera |
| Niska | Eva Röse | Jennifer Bottcher |
| Odi | Alexander Stocks | Tim Knauer |
| Vera | Anki Larsson | Anja Topf |
| Rick | Johannes Kuhnke | Rasmus Borowski |
| David Eischer | Thomas W. Gabrielsson | Clemens Gerhard |
criticism
“The series is original because it reverses the old golem myth (man creates an artificial companion and loses control over him): the problem is not the new machine, the problem is the old man. He doesn't keep up. The inauthentic is the new real: (...) "
"With this multi-perspective treatment of the topic, the series succeeds in raising important questions about being human in general (...) a breathtaking, intelligent and original vision of a perhaps not too distant future."
Awards
- The series received the rating of particularly valuable from the German Film and Media Assessment .
Adaptation
Lars Lundström's idea has also been filmed as " Humans " since 2014 and broadcast on British / American television.
Web links
- Real Humans - Real people in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Real Humans - real people on fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mario Giglio: Real Humans: Arte shows season 2 of the Swedish sci-fi drama . In: Serienjunkies.de . March 19, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
- ↑ Real Humans. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Film review by Iris Radisch , Die Zeit No. 16, April 11, 2013, accessed on April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Real Humans: Echte Menschen / Jury statement - predicate particularly valuable. German Film and Media Assessment (FBW), accessed on May 17, 2014 .