The Game (Miniseries)

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Television series
German title The Game
Original title The Game
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
year 2014
length 60 minutes
Episodes 6 in 1 season ( list )
genre Thriller , drama
idea Toby Whithouse
production Radford Neville
music Daniel Pemberton
camera Sam McCurdy ,
Urszula Pontikos
First broadcast November 5, 2014 (UK) on BBC Two
German-language
first broadcast		 August 26, 2015 on WDR
occupation
synchronization

The Game is a British thriller - miniseries by writer Toby Whithouse . The series is set in the 1970s in an espionage environment during the Cold War . It premiered from November 5 to December 10, 2014 on BBC Two . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast on WDR from August 26 to September 9, 2015 .

action

Through the Russian defector Arkady, the British domestic intelligence service MI5 learns of a secret plan by the KGB , code-named "Operation Glass", which is supposed to deal a heavy blow to Great Britain. The secret service chief with the code name "Daddy" then puts together a team to investigate the threat. These include the young secret agent Joe Lambe, his experienced colleague Sarah Montag, her husband Alan, an unworldly wiretapping specialist, the ambitious officer Bobby Waterhouse, the police officer DC Jim Fenchurch and Daddy's shy but capable secretary Wendy Straw. The team monitors the activation of various Soviet sleeper agents by Arkady and can just prevent the disclosure of the Letters of Last Resort , the prime minister's instructions in the event of a nuclear strike .

When rumors emerged that the Soviet actions were being led by a notorious KGB officer with the cover name "Odin", Joe Lambe pursued his own goals. A year ago he wanted to defer to the Soviet Union to live with the Russian Yulia, with whom he had fallen in love. But the deal went wrong, Yulia was gunned down, Joe captured and later exchanged for Soviet spies. "Daddy" covered up the action of his protégé and passed it off as a failed secret operation in order to secure the loyalty of his agent. But Joe still hates irrepressible hatred of "Odin", whom he blames for the death of his lover. He puts Arkady, whose credibility MI5 is beginning to doubt, with the safety of his family under pressure to lure Odin from the reserve. This succeeds, but only leads to the murder of Arkady, while Odin inexplicably spares Joe.

With another ruse, the false accusation of MI6 agent Kate Wilkinson, the KGB incites the two British secret services against each other and thus paralyzes the clout of “Daddy's” troop. The former British soldier Philip Denmore then carried out an attack on the headquarters of the Conservative Party , which ostensibly bears the signature of the IRA , but was staged by the Soviet side. There are increasing signs that there must be a mole in the innermost circle of MI5 , which reveals the actions of the team in advance. Finally, Alan Montag is caught using a dead Soviet mailbox . He frankly admits to being the mole, code-named "Phoenix".

A false Soviet passport allegedly issued for Joe Lambe convinces “Daddy” that his protégé is also a traitor, and he hunts down the young agent. So it doesn't help Joe much when he - with the help of sound recordings from which the personal pronoun "she" has been deleted - reveals Sarah as the real "Phoenix", for which her husband Alan sacrifices himself only out of love. Sarah blackmailed Joe with the surprisingly lively Yulia. It turns out that Joe is charged with a planned assassination attempt on the British Prime Minister while he was visiting the site of the bombing. With this ruse, the KGB would have eliminated not only the British Prime Minister, but the entire management team of MI5, who would have been sacked because of the involvement of their agent. Afterwards, long-time bred moles of the KGB, above all the British Vice Prime Minister, filled the vacant management positions.

Joe Lambe, however, thwarted the attack, which he had previously reported to "Daddy". The Prime Minister is doubled by Jim Fenchurch, a British sniper shoots "Odin" down. Before he dies, he can infect Joe with the suspicion that Yulia had worked for the KGB all the time. When Joe meets his lover, he remains reserved. He fails to get rid of his doubts, and so “Odin” won in the end: Doubts kill as surely as any weapon.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing was created under the dialogue direction of Engelbert von Nordhausen by the dubbing company Rainer Brandt Filmproduktions in Berlin .

Role name actor Voice actor
Joe Lambe Tom Hughes Nicolás Artajo
Daddy Brian Cox Engelbert von Nordhausen
Bobby Waterhouse Paul Ritter Oliver Siebeck
DC Jim Fenchurch Shaun Dooley Olaf Reichmann
Sarah Monday Victoria Hamilton Silvia Missbach
Alan Monday Jonathan Aris Peter Flechtner
Wendy Straw Chloe Pirrie Josefin Hagen
Hester Waterhouse Judy Parfitt Luise Lunow
Yulia Zana Marjanović Franca Orlia
Odin Yevgeny Sitochin Yevgeny Sitochin

Episode list

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		German title Original title First broadcast in UK German language first broadcast (D) Director script
1 1 Shadow of the past Episode 1 Nov 5, 2014 26 Aug 2015 Niall MacCormick Toby Whithouse
2 2 Controversial information Episode 2 Nov 12, 2014 26 Aug 2015 Niall MacCormick Toby Whithouse
3 3 Wrong plans Episode 3 Nov 19, 2014 Sep 2 2015 Niall MacCormick Sarah Dollard
4th 4th Old friends Episode 4 Nov 26, 2014 Sep 2 2015 Daniel O'Hara Debbie O'Malley
5 5 The attack Episode 5 3 Dec 2014 Sep 9 2015 Daniel O'Hara Toby Whithouse & Sarah Dollard
6th 6th At the last second Episode 6 Dec 10, 2014 Sep 9 2015 Daniel O'Hara Toby Whithouse

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Game. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 6, 2015 .