The Frankenstein Chronicles

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Television series
Original title The Frankenstein Chronicles
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Year (s) 2015-2017
Production
company		 Rainmark Films
length 43-53 minutes
Episodes 12 in 2 seasons
genre Drama , fantasy
idea Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford
First broadcast November 11, 2015 (UK) on ITV Encore
German-language
first broadcast		 April 19, 2016 on TNT Series
occupation
synchronization

The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television series starring Sean Bean . The first broadcast of the six-part first season took place on November 11, 2015 on the British broadcaster ITV . The German-language first broadcast was on April 19, 2016 on the pay-TV channel TNT Serie . In this reinterpretation of the Frankenstein myth, the protagonist John Marlott encounters several famous personalities of the 19th century, including Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and the poet William Blake .

action

John Marlott was inspector in London in 1827. The police are about to arrest a gang of opium smugglers when Marlott comes across the body of a girl. Due to the circumstances of the death and the condition of the corpse, because the victim is a being sewn together from the body parts of eight children, Marlott is commissioned by Interior Minister Sir Robert Peel to lead the investigation and to maintain confidentiality. Apparently a scientist tries to bring the dead back to life with body parts and even commits murders to get the necessary “spare parts”. Marlott and policeman Nightingale do everything in their power to track down the man. Fatally, a journalist found out the connections and published a newspaper article about the Frankenstein murders, which caused great unrest in the population and threw the inspector far behind in his work. The Lord Daniel Hervey is increasingly emerging as the perpetrator. Marlott, convinced of his guilt, sets out to search the hospital grounds. There he frees a young girl who was held captive by Hervey's loyal servant Lloris, but now gets into Hervey's hands. When Marlott wakes up a few hours later, he is covered in blood and a lifeless female body lies on his kitchen table. Although Marlott protests his innocence, he ends up being sentenced to death for murder.

Three years after his execution and subsequent resurrection, ex-policeman Marlott flees the forensic psychiatry to seek revenge on Lord Daniel Hervey. But before he knows it, he finds himself in a series of new brutal murders and takes up the fight against evil again.

background

Filming for the second season began again in Belfast and Northern Ireland in March 2017. It aired in England from November 2017 to early December 2017. In Germany, the 6 episodes of the 2nd season could be seen again on the TNT series from December 27, 2017.

Reviews

Bernd Graff from the Süddeutsche Zeitung judged: “These bone-deep British 'Chronicles'” are “not horror tales with tired, swaying homunculi with screws in their necks and skulls, but icy investigations on the threshold of modernity in which the figures even indoors have the clouds of breath of winter at their mouths - or the breath of death. So it's no wonder that Sean Bean almost never takes off his formidable felt hat: that's the only way he's protected. "

At goldenekamera.de they found words of praise and said: “Anyone who wants to experience the unadorned dark side of Victorian England cannot ignore this brilliantly played mini-series! A cleverly constructed detective story unfolds in front of the breathtakingly furnished nightmare backdrop of the London underworld, illuminated exclusively with natural light sources, in which poverty, crime, scientific progress and political intrigue collide. "

Gian-Philip Andreas from TV Wishlist wrote: In the first season it is “not yet very clear [which elements should be in the foreground], the police-technical murder search [...], the historical image of a blatantly divided society on the eve of modernity or the mystery -Aspect. What has worked well so far is the atmospheric control: the horror of the grave robbers, the melancholy of the protagonists and the panic of conspiracy are in perfect balance. Even moments of shock and shock are played effectively. What, on the other hand, has not yet been so completely convincing is the crime drama. The investigative work has so far been rather confused, random and constructed. The sudden finding of obscure clues in artfully wrinkled old book pages fits more into adventure purrs like 'The Librarians' than into what the 'Frankenstein Chronicles' seem atmospherically intended. "

Episode list

season 1

The first broadcast of the first season was from November 11 to December 16, 2015 on the British TV channel ITV Encore . The German-language first broadcast was on the TNT series from April 19 to May 24, 2016.

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		German title Original title First broadcast in UK German language first broadcast (D) Director script
1 1 A horrible find A World Without God Nov 11, 2015 April 19, 2016 Benjamin Ross Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford
2 2 A suspicion Seeing things Nov 18, 2015 Apr 26, 2016 Benjamin Ross Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford
3 3 The creator of the monster All the Lost Children Nov 25, 2015 May 3, 2016 Benjamin Ross Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford
4th 4th Wrong tracks The Fortune of War Dec 2, 2015 May 10, 2016 Benjamin Ross Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford
5 5 Convicted? The Frankenstein Murders Dec 9, 2015 17th May 2016 Benjamin Ross Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford
6th 6th Frankenstein Lost and Found Dec 16, 2015 May 24, 2016 Benjamin Ross Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford

season 2

The first broadcast of the second season was from November 1 to December 6, 2017 on the British television channel ITV Encore . The German-language first broadcast was on the TNT series from December 27, 2017 to January 10, 2018.

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		German title Original title First broadcast in UK German language first broadcast (D) Director script
7th 1 The lost Son Prodigal Son Nov 1, 2017 Dec. 27, 2017 Alex Gabassi Michael Robert Johnson
Benjamin Ross
8th 2 See things Not John Marlott Nov 8, 2017 Dec. 27, 2017 Alex Gabassi Paul Tomalin
Benjamin Ross
9 3 See the dead Seeing the Dead Nov 15, 2017 Jan. 3, 2018 Alex Gabassi Barry Langford
Benjamin Ross
10 4th The lost little boy Little boy go Nov 22, 2017 Jan. 3, 2018 Alex Gabassi Glenn Patterson
Colin Carberry
11 5 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Nov 29, 2017 Jan. 10, 2018 Alex Gabassi Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford
12 6th Bride of Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein Dec 6, 2017 Jan. 10, 2018 Alex Gabassi Benjamin Ross
Barry Langford

synchronization

role German voice Original actor / speaker
John Marlott Torsten Michaelis Sean Bean
Nightingale Markus Pfeiffer Richie Campbell
Lady Jemima Hervey Julia Kaufmann Vanessa Kirby
Sir Bentley Warburton Peter Flechtner Elliot Cowan
Sir Robert Peel Sebastian Christoph Jacob Tom Ward
Lord Daniel Hervey Julien Haggège Ed Stoppard
Billy Oates Oliver Stritzel Robbie Gee
Sir William Chester Frank Schaff Samuel West

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Harder: The Frankenstein Chronicles: Premiere with Sean Bean on ITV Encore . Serienjunkies.de .
  2. ↑ Adam Arndt: The Frankenstein Chronicles: German premiere in April on TNT Series - Serienjunkies.de .
  3. ↑ Shooting at wunschliste.de
  4. ↑ TNT series: "The Frankenstein Chronicles" continues after Christmas, Game of Thrones at the turn of the year .
  5. ↑ The need for human corpses in the "Frankenstein Chronicles" is high at sueddeutsche.de
  6. ↑ Very disturbing: New mini-series "The Frankenstein Chronicles" at goldenekamera.de
  7. ^ Gian-Philip Andreas: Dark game with the Frankenstein motifs Film review for the first season at wunschliste.de
  8. ↑ voice actor at the German voice actor file