Yorkshire Killer

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Television broadcast
German title Yorkshire Killer
Original title Red Riding
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
year 2009
length 90 minutes
Episodes 3
genre Neo noir
production Wendy Brazington ,
Andrew Eaton ,
Anita Overland
music Adrian Johnston
Dickon Hinchliffe
Barrington Pheloung
First broadcast March 5, 2009 on Channel Four
German-language
first broadcast		 January 2, 2011 on Das Erste
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Yorkshire Killer is a British three-part crime thriller from 2009 about the hunt for the mysterious Yorkshire Ripper. Directed by Julian Jarrold , James Marsh and Anand Tucker . The trilogy is very loosely based on the real search of the investigative authorities for Peter William Sutcliffe .

Tony Grisoni's script was based on the four novels of the Red Riding Quartet by David Peace . Andrew Eaton produced the films for Channel 4 .

The main roles were played by Andrew Garfield in part one , Paddy Considine in part two , David Morrissey and Mark Addy in part three . In addition, are Warren Clarke , Sean Bean and Peter Mullan to see.

action

1974

The Yorkshire Post's new police correspondent, bachelor Eddie Dunford, comes dangerously close to solving the perhaps delusional religiously motivated child murders of an impenetrable conspiracy that reaches the highest echelons of business, press, politics and police administration. Corrupt police officers and those involved in the conspiracy direct suspicion on gypsies who are settling on a building site on which the likewise corrupt real estate agent John Dawson wants to build a shopping mall, and burn the gypsy camp on Dawson's behalf in a night-and-fog operation .

A colleague and friend of Dunford finds out about the conspiracy and is murdered in an arranged traffic accident. Dunford's friend, mother of one of the victims who had sexual relations with Dawson, suspects that Dawson was involved in the child murders; she is also murdered. After being brutally mistreated in a basement by corrupt police officers involved in the conspiracy, Dunford procures a gun and shoots several people present and the construction lion John Dawson, whom he believes to be the killer of the children. He himself leaves Dawson's nightclub injured, is chased by the police and deliberately drives his getaway car to his death (in the credits).

1980

Under public pressure, Peter Hunter is called up as an outside investigator for the West Yorkshire Police against the elderly Bill Molloy, who had a nervous breakdown on television. Hunter was once involved in the investigation into the massacre caused by Dunford, which is still pending investigation. The investigative officer with integrity would like to re-open the evidence with full powers and stir up a lot of dirt. Many investigators are burned out or traumatized after years of manhunt. The authorities are still receiving anonymous reports by the sacks, press conferences end in turmoil. The assignment of a single murder seems difficult, possibly it is a free rider. The events immediately following Dunford's rampage become clear. An earlier affair between the childless married Hunter and a colleague involved in the investigation gets in his way. His house is set on fire and burned down, he is denounced and given leave. Finally, the perpetrators lure him into a trap that he cannot escape.

1983

The official Maurice Jobson (known since episode one), who has been entrusted with the investigation since the beginning, takes center stage and next to him the local lawyer John Piggott. The mentally retarded alleged perpetrator was apparently coerced into his confession and badly defended. Jobson falls in love with a medium that was heard about the events. Reverend Laws from the coal town of Fitzwilliam moves into the center of the research; Dunford was then the victim of a traffic accident. Jobson feels compelled to rethink his choice of methods. Piggots father, who was friends with the perpetrator, died by suicide. Piggot is knocked down and falls into an underground shack. The prostitute BJ (also with part one) tries to shoot Rev. Laws to put an end to the killing, but fails. The joining Jobson eventually kills Laws. Piggot remembers in his dungeon that he saw one of the deeds as a child. He is freed from the vaulted cellar by Jobson and he manages to rescue little Hazel Atkins from there. BJ flees south by train.

criticism

“[...] There have been [...] three films by three different directors that are not often seen on television. Overlapping narratives, threads of action that occasionally cross, images full of violence and cruelty. "

- Peter Körte : FAZ

“The television year begins with an absolute highlight [...] a disturbing epic of violence and conspiracy. [...] a trilogy that draws at least as much tension from their aesthetic juxtapositions as from their plot. "

- Hannah Pilarczyk : Spiegel Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Red Riding: Das Erste shows British crime trilogy on Serienjunkies.de , accessed on December 10, 2010
  2. ↑ Red Riding: Das Erste shows British crime trilogy on Serienjunkies.de, accessed on December 10, 2010
  3. ^ FAZ of January 2, 2011
  4. ^ Crime trilogy "Yorkshire Killer": Nightmare Province under the spell of the Ripper . Spiegel Online from January 2, 2011.