Stateless (TV series)

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Television broadcast
German title Stateless
Original title Stateless
Country of production Australia
original language English
year 2020
Production
company
Matchbox Pictures, Dirty Films
length 50-55 minutes
Episodes 6 ( list )
genre drama
production Sheila Jayadev, Paul Ranford
music Cornel Wilczek
First broadcast March 1, 2020 on ABC

First publication in German
July 8, 2020 on Netflix
occupation
synchronization

Stateless is a 2020 Australian drama series based in part on the story of Cornelia Rau, a German citizen with a permanent Australian residency permit .

action

The German-born flight attendant Sofie Werner flees from her life in which she is patronized by her parents. She ends up in an obscure sect. After Sofie realizes what is really behind the sect, she flees again. While she was on the run, she was arrested by the Australian authorities and taken to a refugee detention center. There she meets an Afghan family of four, the Australian family man Cam, who works as a guard there, and the government official Clare, who has been assigned by the government to solve the problems in the refugee camp.

Parallels to the Cornelia Rau case

In 2004/2005, the flight attendant Cornelia Rau of German descent was accidentally interned in an Australian refugee camp for about ten months. Rau disappeared from a mental illness hospital in Sydney in March 2004 . In February 2005 it became known that she had been falsely detained first in Brisbane Women's Prison and later in the Baxter Detention Center because she did not want to reveal her true identity and was therefore classified as an illegal migrant by the Australian Immigration Service . The character Sofie Werner is based on Cornelia Rau.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing was based on a dubbing book by Ariane Huth and Boris Tessmann and directed by Boris Tessmann on behalf of SDI Media Germany.

role actor Episodes Voice actor
Sofie Werner Yvonne Strahovski 1-6 Sonja Spuhl
Cam Sandford Jai Courtney 1-6 Boris Tessmann
Clare Kowitz Asher Keddie 1-6 Katrin Zimmermann
Ameer Fayssal Bazzi 1-6 Karim Chamlali
Gordon Masters Dominic West 1-6 Viktor Neumann
Pat Masters Cate Blanchett 1-6 Bettina White
Margot Marta Dusseldorp 1-6 Aline Staskowiak
Brian Ashworth Darren Gilshenan 1-6 Hans Bayer
Angie Sanford Maria Angelico 1-6 Rieke Werner
Sharee Rose Riley 1-6 Maria Burghardt
Elka Werner Catherine Wilkin 1-2, 4 Isabella Grothe

Episode list

No. German title Original title First broadcast in Australia Director script Spectator
(australia)
1 Under what conditions they come The Circumstances in Which They Come March 1, 2020 Emma Freeman Elise McCredie 441,000
2 Incognita Incognita March 8, 2020 Emma Freeman Elise McCredie 363,000
3 What is right The right thing March 15, 2020 Emma Freeman Belinda Chayko 390,000
4th Sofie runs Run Sofie Run March 22, 2020 Jocelyn Moorhouse Elise McCredie 430,000
5 Panis Angelicus Panis Angelicus March 29, 2020 Jocelyn Moorhouse Belinda Chayko 409,000
6th The seventh circle The Seventh Circle April 5, 2020 Jocelyn Moorhouse Elise McCredie 469,000
It was released outside of Australia on July 8, 2020 on Netflix.

Production and broadcast

Cate Blanchett at the launch of Stateless at the Berlinale 2020

The shooting of Stateless took place from June 2019 in the state of South Australia in the Adelaide Studios, the field shots for the Baxter Detention Center were filmed in Port Augusta .

Stateless premiered at the Berlinale 2020 , in Australia the broadcast on ABC began on March 1, 2020, Netflix secured the worldwide publication rights and published all episodes worldwide on July 8, 2020.

With Stateless , Cate Blanchett made her television debut as a producer. Blanchett describes the series as a heart project and wants to draw attention to the inhumane Australian refugee policy.

reception

The series was received quite positively in the media. In the Internet Movie Database , the series has a rating of 7.0 / 10 based on approximately 900 votes. At Metacritic , the first season is rated 73/100 (based on 17 reviews), at Rotten Tomatoes 75% of the critics give it a positive rating.

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Oliver Junge writes that Stateless is a television series that is psychologically poignant, aesthetically fulminant, narrative refined and content-wise , and it creates a plot that only takes place in an internment camp, as exciting as a crime thriller and moving as a drama series to stage without appearing kitschy.

Emily Thomey from WDR is of the opinion that the creators succeeded in a good mixture of entertainment and education about the conditions in Australian refugee camps and to shed light on the motives of the guards, journalists and demonstrators. She praises the complex story, the acting, the exciting script and the surreal setting in the Australian sun.

Web links

Commons : Stateless  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

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  8. David Knox: Sunday 29 March 2020. Retrieved on July 10, 2020 (English).
  9. David Knox: Sunday 5 April 2020. Retrieved on July 10, 2020 (English).
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