River (TV series)

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Television series
German title River
Original title River
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
year 2015
Production
company		 Kudos
length 54-58 minutes
Episodes 6 in 1 season
genre Crime , drama
idea Abi Morgan
production Chris Carey
music Harry Escott
First broadcast October 13, 2015 (UK) on BBC One
German-language
first broadcast		 November 18, 2015 on Netflix
occupation

River is a British crime series directed by Abi Morgan . Stellan Skarsgård and Nicola Walker can be seen in the leading roles . The miniseries consists of six episodes and premiered on BBC One from October 13 to November 17, 2015 . It was published in German-speaking countries on November 18, 2015 on the video-on-demand provider Netflix .

Cast and dubbing

Cast and dubbing
Actress role Speaker
Stellan Skarsgård John River
Detective Inspector of the Metropolitan Police Service 		Detlef Bierstedt
Nicola Walker Jackie "Stevie" Stevenson Heath Domanowski
Lesley Manville Chrissie Read Karin Grüger
Adeel Akhtar Ira King Daniel Montoya
Eddie Marsan Thomas Neill Cream
The Lambeth poisoner 		Lutz Schnell
Georgina Rich Rosa Fallows Police Psychologist
 Bianca Krahl
Owen Teale Marcus McDonald Roland Hemmo
Turlough Convery Frankie Stevenson Marcel Collé
Michael Maloney Tom Read Uwe Jellinek
Sorcha Cusack Bridie Stevenson Isabella Grothe
Steve Nicholson Jim Stevenson Eberhard Haar
Jim Norton Michael Bennigan Rudiger Evers
Shannon Tarbet Erin Fielding Laurine Betz
Joseph Altin Christopher Riley Valentin Stilu
 
Dubbing company Scalamedia GmbH, Berlin
Dialogue book Regina chain
Dialogue director Frank Schröder

action

In the opening scenes of the series, Detective Inspector John River pursues a potential suspect in London who throws himself into his death, and he comes under heavy pressure from the media to do so. River is haunted by visions from his recently murdered colleague Detective Sergeant Jackie "Stevie" Stevenson. He has the gift of sensing her closeness and talking to her. He goes to great lengths to find her killer, although he is excluded from the case due to bias. River must undergo a psychiatric evaluation to avoid being suspended.

Through Stevie, River came into contact with her brother Jimmy and other Stevies family members. Stevie had no connection to her family for years after testifying in court against Jimmy, who was subsequently sentenced to a long prison term for murder. Her decision to become a police officer had further deepened the argument with her family. River is attacked by the pregnant girlfriend of the man who has thrown himself into death. He then begins to doubt the man's guilt. Stevie had a second cell phone and led a double life. DNA evidence showed she had been in the car that was driven by her killer before. River and the pregnant woman begin to trust each other, and he investigates the origin of the killer's car.

River gets a new partner named Ira who wants to report the discovery of Stevie's second cell phone to his superiors. River agrees, but makes it clear that he first wants to follow the leads the phone has in store for himself. At the same time, he and Ira investigate the serious injuries suffered by a site manager in a suspicious work accident. River is surprised to find that the psychiatric report commissioned by his superiors after Stevie's death shows that he can continue to work.

River investigates Stevie's relationship with a worker in a kebab shop and learns that his colleague has secrets. He and Ira spend an evening at their supervisor Read's home. River makes a surprising discovery: One of the people Stevie called on her second cell phone the night she died was Read's husband, a judge. River attends a group for people who hear voices, led by his psychologist Rosa.

River and Ira are investigating the murder of kebab shop worker Haider Jamal Abdi, who was stabbed to death in a public library. They focus on both a cleaner who was videotaped but didn't appear in the library's cleaning company's books, and the lawyer who represented Haider in an immigration court. Her findings lead her to a possible lead that Stevie had also investigated and which may have led to her death.

River and Ira continue to follow in the footsteps of Stevie's previous unofficial investigations. She found out that immigrants could get work permits in exchange for money and were then exploited. They find a connection between the exploitative enterprise that employs the lawless and secrets from Stevie's personal life. River decides to convict her killer, even though he knows that he will lose her as a companion and friend forever.

music

As a leitmotif , the song by Tina Charles I Love To Love is used.

production

Filming began in London in October 2014 . Abi Morgan , who had also written the scripts for The Hour and Die Eiserne Lady , named the film How crazy and from the bottom of my heart , in which the late lover ( Alan Rickman ) of a grieving woman ( Juliet Stevenson ) appears again as inspiration .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Abi Morgan to pen new detective series for the BBC . In: TheDailyTelegraph , September 24, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2017. 
  2. ↑ Netflix Acquires BBC's 'River' Starring Stellan Skarsgård . In: Deadline.com . October 13, 2015. Accessed March 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ synchronization. Synchronized files, accessed on February 5, 2018 .