Tabula Rasa (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tabula rasa |
| Original title | Tabula rasa |
| Country of production | Belgium , Germany |
| original language | Dutch |
| year | 2017 |
| Production company |
Caviar Films |
| length | 48-53 minutes |
| Episodes | 9 in 1 season ( list ) |
| genre | Drama , thriller |
| Director | Kaat Beels, Jonas Govaerts |
| idea | Malin-Sarah Gozin |
| script | Malin-Sarah Gozin, Christophe Dirickx & Veerle Baetens |
| music | Lachlan Anderson |
| First broadcast | October 29, 2017 on Eén |
First publication in German |
January 31, 2018 on ZDFneo |
| occupation | |
Tabula Rasa (original tabula rasa ) is a Belgian - German drama - miniseries in 2017, produced on behalf of ZDFneo and the VRT , based on the idea of Malin-Sarah Gozin who also co-wrote the screenplays.
action
After a car accident, Annemie D'Haeze, called Mie, has a special form of memory loss and therefore lives in a closed psychiatric ward . She remembers life before the accident very well. But she forgets new memories after a day. She herself describes this as a sandstorm that goes by and sweeps everything away. In particularly stressful situations, she forgets things particularly quickly. Mie was the last to have seen contact with the missing scrap dealer Thomas de Geest, so the police are hoping to solve the case with her help.
In order to find her way in everyday life, Mie has started to record her daily experiences in a personal diary. These personal notes also contain the information that her own house burned down and that she then moved with her family to her grandfather's house in the forest. But somehow it seems to Mie as if someone is manipulating her notes, so she doesn't know who to trust and who to trust.
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbing was based on a dubbing book by Harald Wolff and directed by Harald Wolff on behalf of Cinephon Filmproduktion Berlin.
main actor
| role | actor | Appearance (episodes) | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annemie Mie D'Haeze | Veerle Baetens | 1.01–1.09 | Anja Stadlober |
| Benoit D'Haeze | Stijn Van Opstal | 1.01–1.09 | Till Endemann |
| Thomas De Geest | Jeroen Perceval | 1.01–1.09 | Jan Andres |
| Jacques Wolkers | Gene Bervoets | 1.01–1.09 | Rüdiger Joswig |
| Dr. Mommaerts | Natali Broods | 1.01–1.09 | Mareile Moeller |
| Romy D'Haeze | Cécile Enthoven | 1.01–1.09 | Lily Alma Bredack |
| Karen | Ruth Beeckmans | 1.01–1.09 | Vera Bunk |
| Rita | Hilde Van Mieghem | 1.01–1.08 | Katja Brugger |
| Vronsky | Peter van den Begin | 1.01–1.08 | Markus Pfeiffer |
| Nikki | Lynn Van Royen | 1.02-1.08 | Leonie Dubuc |
supporting cast
| role | actor | Appearance (episodes) | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter | François Beukelaers | 1.02-1.03, 1.05-1.06, 1.08 | Lothar Hinze |
| ranger | Marc Peeters | 1.02-1.04, 1.08-1.09 | Thomas Petruo |
| Oliver | Tom Audenaert | 1.02, 1.05-1.07 | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
| Jackson | Gregory Frateur | 1.02–1.05 | Dirk Stollberg |
| Mozes | Bilall Fallah | 1.02-1.03, 1.05-1.06 | Marios Gavrilis |
| patient | Jan Debski | 1.02-1.04, 1.07 | Stefan Krause |
| psychiatrist | Steven van Watermeulen | 1.01, 1.09 | Christian Intorp |
| Reftermadam | Lea Witvrouwen | 1.06-1.07 | Philine Peters-Arnolds |
Episode list
| No. | German title | Original title | First broadcast in Belgium | German language first broadcast ( ZDFneo ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The sandstorm | De Geest | October 29, 2017 | January 31, 2018 |
| 2 | Houdini | Houdini | 5th November 2017 | February 7, 2018 |
| 3 | The silence in the forest | Vogel voor de kat | November 12, 2017 | February 14, 2018 |
| 4th | The Red Thread | De draad van Ariadne | November 12, 2017 | February 21, 2018 |
| 5 | Who is V.? | V. | 19th November 2017 | February 28, 2018 |
| 6th | A moment of light | De Berenput | 19th November 2017 | March 7, 2018 |
| 7th | The walls have ears | Wally | November 26, 2017 | March 14, 2018 |
| 8th | The end of the lies | Het bos door de bomen | November 26, 2017 | March 21, 2018 |
| 9 | On a collision course | bob | 3rd December 2017 | March 28, 2018 |
Production and broadcast
Tabula Rasa celebrated its international premiere at the Fantastic Fest in Austin in September 2017. In Germany, the episodes were broadcast on ZDFneo on a weekly basis from January 31, 2018, and all episodes were available for streaming in the ZDFmediathek from January 31, 2018 . The publishing rights for Great Britain were secured by the video-on-demand service Walter Presents from Channel 4 . Netflix secured the broadcasting rights worldwide.
The series was partly funded by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, and Minister Van Overtveldt made use of the Belgian tax break scheme .
reception
spectator
On the Internet Movie Database , viewers gave a rating of 8.1 out of 10 to around 7,300 votes.
critic
Veronica Wulff writes in her review in the Süddeutsche that the dialogues seem awkward, there is no real tension and the music reliably leads to every climax. She perceived Veerle Baetens positively in the role of Mie, from her point of view she looks natural and portrays both the self-confident and sensible side of her character as well as the erratic confused side well.
Frederiksson also praises the multi-faceted presentation of Baetens in the Frankfurter Rundschau . He also emphasizes that the sound effects and the music create a constant horror and that the camera work is refreshingly different from German productions. But he also notes that the plot is not new and follows the expected twists, but that these are well designed in terms of film.
Vanessa Schneider from Bayerischer Rundfunk is enthusiastic about the imagery, which reminds her of Scandinavian productions. What is particularly arty in her eyes is that Mie's forgetting is represented by the fact that objects in the picture run down to sand.
Critics in English-speaking countries are also enthusiastic about the imagery, writes Euan Ferguson in the British Guardian that the imagery in Tabula Rasa reminds him of a good 50s film. In the US NY Times , Margaret Lyons writes that Tabula Rasa is frighteningly unsettling, but not in a slasher way , but more like a kind of poisoned poem.
Awards
Ensors Awards 2018
- Award winner in the category of Best Actor, TV Series for Peter Van Den Begin
- Winner for Best Actress, TV Series for Lynn Van Royen
- Winner in the Best Screenplay, TV Series category
Web links
- Tabula Rasa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tabula Rasa in the ZDFmediathek
- Tabula Rasa on Netflix
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tabula Rasa. In: German synchronous card index. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ TABULA RASA. In: fantasticfest.com. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ WALTER PRESENTS secures TABULA RASA for Great Britain. ZDF Enterprises, February 12, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b ZDF Enterprises and Netflix cooperate on TABULA RASA. ZDF Enterprises, March 15, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Tabula Rasa. In: Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Veronica Wulff: Sand in the Gears. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 30, 2018, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
- ^ DJ Frederiksson: The Belgian Memento. Frankfurter Rundschau, January 31, 2018, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Vanessa Schneider: The woman without memory. Bayerischer Rundfunk, January 31, 2018, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
- ^ Euan Fergusson: The week in TV: The Bridge; Tabula rasa; Homeland; Gender quake; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The Guardian, May 13, 2018, accessed July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Margaret Lyons: Tabula Rasa. New York Times, accessed July 15, 2020 .
- ^ "Le fidèle" and "Tabula Rasa" big winners of the Ensor film awards. Belgian Broadcasting, September 16, 2018, accessed July 15, 2020 .