Rellik

Television series
German title	Rellik
Original title	Rellik
Country of production	United Kingdom , United States
original language	English
Year (s)	since 2017
length	up to 60 minutes
Episodes	6 in 1 season
genre	Drama , crime thriller
idea	Harry Williams, Jack Williams
First broadcast	11 September 2017 (United Kingdom) on BBC One
; First publication in German	November 10, 2017 on Amazon Video
occupation
synchronization

Rellik (read backwards killer ) is a television series commissioned by BBC One and Cinemax as a British - US co-production. It was managed by the British brothers Harry and Jack Williams and their production company Two Brothers Pictures, who were previously involved in the series The Missing , which was also co-produced . In Germany, the series has been available on Amazon Video since November 10, 2017 . In the UK, the series has been on BBC One since September 11, 2017. Since the series will not have its premiere at co-producer Cinemax until April 13, 2018, a sequel beyond season 1 has not yet been decided.

Production background

The plot of the series, with the exception of the sixth episode of the season, is shown in reverse order, starting with the point in time at which the main suspect is caught or killed, and is told in sections backwards from that point on. The corresponding time in which the corresponding scene is at a distance from the previous one is always displayed to the viewer at the beginning of this.

content

The series tells the story of the hunt for a serial killer, who always burns his victims with acid, by the police officer Gabriel Markham, who was himself the victim of the perpetrator, but was able to survive the attack. As soon as the alleged perpetrator is apprehended or shot, doubts arise as to whether he was responsible for the crimes at all.

Cast and dubbing

The German-language dubbing of the series was created at Studio Hamburg Synchron GmbH under the dialogue book by Thomas Maria Lehmann and dialogue direction by Sascha Draeger .

Main cast

Role name	actor	Voice actor
DCI Gabriel Markham	Richard Dormer	Michael Lott
DI Elaine Shepard	Jodi Balfour	Neda Rahmanian
Dr. Isaac Taylor	Paterson Joseph	Clemens Gerhard
Patrick Barker	Paul Rhys	Sascha Draeger
Steven Mills	Michael Shaeffer	Nicolas King
Christine Levison	Rosalind Eleazar	Lo Rivera
Beth Mills	Georgina Rich	Tanja Dohse
Lisa Markham	Lærke Winther	Anne Moll
Hannah Markham	Shannon Tarbet	Elise Eikermann
DSI Edward Benton	Ray Stevenson	Jürgen Holdorf

Episode list

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first publication (D / A)	Director	script
1	Episode 1	Episode 1	Sep 11 2017	Nov 10, 2017	Sam Miller	Harry Williams, Jack Williams
2	Episode 2	Episode 2	Sep 18 2017	Nov 10, 2017	Sam Miller	Harry Williams, Jack Williams
3	Episode 3	Episode 3	25 Sep 2017	Nov 10, 2017	Sam Miller	Harry Williams, Jack Williams
4th	Episode 4	Episode 4	Oct 2, 2017	Nov 10, 2017	Hans Herbots	Marston Bloom
5	Episode 5	Episode 5	Oct 9, 2017	Nov 10, 2017	Hans Herbots	Harry Williams, Jack Williams
6th	Episode 6	Episode 6	Oct 16, 2017	Nov 10, 2017	Sam Miller	Max Barnes

Publication in German-speaking countries

In German-speaking countries, the series was released on DVD and BluRay by Concorde Home Video , a Tele München Group company , on December 15, 2017.

reception

According to Matthias Hannemann from the FAZ , "Not only is the title of the series [...] cryptic, it captivates with its weird narrative." In addition, "The basic mood in 'Rellik' [...] is as black as it is in the story of a multiple murderer." have to be; sometimes spooky when Markham visits a cemetery at night to bury his hands in the gravel over a coffin. ”However,“ the series, with which the BBC picks up and refines elements of the ' Nordic Noir ' genre, must not get too deep Tangle investigators' private lives. If you have a strange narrative style, then please consistently. "

Katja Belousova from Die Welt nach is the series, “As if Christopher Nolan had shot a 'crime scene'.” She also feels: “'Rellik' demands full attention from its viewers, because the reverse narration is unusual and initially very confusing. It is not new. It was exactly this method that Christopher Nolan chose 17 years ago in his film 'Memento' and fans of Quentin Tarantino will not be able to recognize a spirit of innovation in this type of storytelling. "However," Markham's reverse search for the acid killer [...] only works because of There were doubts about Mills' perpetration from the beginning or the end. And so, after five episodes, the viewers get the ketchups flowing back into the bottle, cigarettes smoldering back and trains moving backwards, the real acid killer. Just like a last, sixth episode, which cancels the backward telling, returns to the starting point of the first episode and ends 'Rellik' exactly as a crime series does: with a final confrontation between robber and gendarme. For this ending, the makers really didn't have to bother rewinding. ”So she comes to the conclusion:“ If the series creators Harry and Jack Williams really wanted to be unconventional, they would have simply ended the series after episode five with the sublime feeling, that the viewer knows more than the investigator and the perpetrator, contrary to tradition, cannot be found. "

Trivia

When the series aired, there was a novelty on British television. At the same time as Rellik was broadcast on BBC One, the series Liar , which was also conceived and produced by Harry and Jack Williams, was broadcast on ITV . It was the first time that two productions from the same company were broadcast in direct competition with one another.