The Last Panthers
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Last Panthers |
| Original title | The Last Panthers |
| Country of production | France , UK |
| original language | French , English , Serbian |
| year | 2015 |
| Production company |
Haut et Court TV , Warp Films |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| genre | Crime , thriller , drama |
| Theme music | Blackstar by David Bowie |
| Director | Johan Renck |
| script | Jack Thorne, Jean-Alain Raban, Jérôme Pierrat |
| production | Jack Thorne , Peter Carlton, Caroline Benjo |
| music | Clark |
| camera | Laurent Tangy 2 |
| First broadcast | October 26, 2015 on Canal + (France) |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 12th, 2015 on Sky Atlantic |
The Last Panthers is a television thriller series. It is a European joint production by Sky Atlantic and Canal + . Showrunner is Jack Thorne and directed by Johan Renck . The series was inspired by the story of the Pink Panthers , a notorious gang of jewelery thieves from the Balkan region. The six-part series premiered in France on October 26, 2015 on Canal + and in England, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria on November 12, 2015 on Sky Atlantic. In the spring of 2016 it ran on SundanceTV in the USA .
action
A bloody jewel theft in Marseille throws various people into the vortex of the European underworld, which is dominated by questionable alliances between gangsters and bankers:
The Serbian band of robbers around the former Pink Panther Milan and the war trauma claims adjuster Naomi and Tom, their nefarious boss at the insurance company and the young police commissioner Khalil, who is trying to escape his smell of the milieu with a fast career. For all characters, the journey across Europe is also a journey to their suppressed fears from the past.
characters
- Naomi ( Samantha Morton ) is a British claims adjuster for an insurance company who is used in hopeless or very expensive cases to get the stolen valuables back at any cost. She took a war trauma with her from the war in Yugoslavia, in which she was deployed as a UN blue helmet, which she is now following again because she has to go back to the Balkans on the trail of Milan's gang.
- Khalil ( Tahar Rahim ) is a young detective with Algerian parents. He acts self-confidently and career-oriented, and seems to want to set himself apart from his origins with his professional success. He lives unorganized with his parents. He uses old contacts to follow his lead in the case.
- Milan ( Goran Bogdan ) is a pink panther, he got the nickname the animal from his youth because he had no respect and was self-confident towards gang bosses. A stroke of fate in the family with his brother forces him to carry out another robbery on the jeweler after a long time.
- Tom ( John Hurt ), Naomi's manager in the insurance company, who is relentless towards the criminals and demands the same from Naomi. An MI6 veteran.
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbing is based on a dialogue book by Theodor Dopheide and directed by Natascha Schaff by the dubbing company Arena Synchron GmbH in Berlin.
| Role name | actor | Main role | Supporting role | German synchronization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naomi Franckom | Samantha Morton | Susanne Geier | ||
| Milan Celik | Goran Bogdan | Frank Schaff | ||
| Khalil Rachedi | Tahar Rahim | Tommy Morgenstern | ||
| Tom Kendle | John Hurt | Fred Maire | ||
| Zlatko | Igor Bencina | |||
| Milomir | Nikola Djuricko | |||
| Nadim Jeune | Yann Ebonge | |||
| James Davis | Kobna Holdbrook-Smith | Gerrit Hamann | ||
| Oman | Moussa Maaskri | |||
| Nadim | Adama Niane | |||
| Kirsty Wilkinson | Natasha O'Keeffe | Sonja Spuhl | ||
| Fatima | Farida Rahouadj | Arianne Borbach | ||
| Karla | Chloe Pirrie |
production
The series was produced by two production companies, the French Haut et Court TV (known for " Les Revenants ") and the British Warp Films (also produces " This is England ") on behalf of Sky Atlantic and Canal + .
The producers succeeded in a musical marketing coup on October 6, 2015 with the announcement that a new song ("Blackstar", later appeared on the album of the same name, Blackstar ) by David Bowie will be the title song of the series. Daniel Krep from Rolling Stone magazine feels reminded of the "bleak, haunting instrumentals on the back half of Bowie's 1977 album Heroes". The director Johan Renck (for all episodes) said of Bowie and the song: "The piece of music that Bowie unfolds before us embodies every aspect of our characters and the series itself: dark, brooding, beautiful and sentimental (in the best sense of the word) . Bowie inspires and fascinates me constantly and as the work went on I was overwhelmed by his generosity. "
In the process of creating the scripts, Renck received support from journalist Jerome Pierrat, who did extensive research into the true story of the Pink Panthers . By 2009 the Pink Panthers carried out more than 120 thefts in Europe and Asia, stealing jewelry worth more than 500 million euros. In the course of his work, Pierrat was in contact with both the police and the criminals.
reception
criticism
Andreas Büsche describes the setting that Jack Thorne chose as a post-democratic space. The choice of colors by the cameraman Laurent Tangy reminds him of Tarkowski's films . For him, the aesthetic aspects speak for a successful attempt to counter the successes of the newer American series television such as True Detective or House of Cards with a European counterpart. Busche cautiously enthusiastically mentions “The principles of deceleration and extravagant exposure”, which, although it has its equivalent in high-quality US series, has to show in the course of the series that it carries the plot.
Anna Meinecke calls the characters “somehow tormented souls, broken characters who are essentially united by devotion to their very individual path and their perhaps even more individual truth”.
Web links
- The Last Panthers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Last Panthers. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Sky starts new drama series "The Last Panthers" at the same time in Europe . October 2, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
- ↑ David Bowie's theme song for The Last Panthers - listen here . The Guardian. October 6, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
- ↑ JJérôme Pierrat, Svetlana Dramlic: L'attaquant: L'histoire vraie the Pink Panthers . 2015, ISBN 978-2-35887-107-5 .
- ↑ On the hunt for the big cats . SPON . November 11, 2015. Accessed November 19, 2015.
- ↑ Anna Meinecke: Klunker-Klau on a grand scale - “The Last Panthers” keep Europe in suspense. In: n-tv.de. November 12, 2015, accessed May 25, 2019 .