The Last Wave
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Last Wave |
| Original title | La Dernière Vague |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| year | 2019 |
| Production company |
Kwaï |
| length | 52 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 ( list ) |
| genre | Mystery , drama |
| production | Thomas Bourguignon, Stéphanie Carrère |
| music | Jean-Pierre Taïeb |
| Initial release | October 21, 2019 on France 2 |
First publication in German |
June 26, 2020 on ZDFneo |
| occupation | |
The Last Wave (originally La Dernière Vague ) is a French mystery series from 2019. The series was planned as a miniseries from the start, and France 2 is not planning a second season either.
action
In the fictional French coastal town of Brizan on the Atlantic, a strange cloud suddenly appears in the sky. During a surfing competition, the cloud approaches the coastline and swallows the surfers who disappeared without a trace after the cloud dissolved. After an unsuccessful search, the surfers reappear after five hours. None of the disappeared can remember what happened in the five hours.
It is slowly becoming clear that surfers have changed: scars have disappeared, eye colors have changed and surfers are developing supernatural skills such as healing by the laying on of hands or breathing underwater.
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbing was created in 2020 based on a dubbing book by Katja Brügger and Joachim Kretzer, directed by Henning Stegelmann and Karin Grüger on behalf of Studio Hamburg Synchron .
Leading roles
| role | actor | Appear | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Lebon | David Kammenos | 1-6 | Sebastian Christoph Jacob |
| Lena Lebon | Marie Dompnier | 1-6 | Katharina Spiering |
| Julien Lewen | Arnaud Binard | 1-6 | Thomas Schmuckert |
| Marianne Lewen | Lola Dewaere | 1-6 | Nora Kunzendorf |
| Yael Lebon | Capucine Valmary | 1-6 | Franziska Trunte |
| Fist ketchak | Guillaume Cramoisan | 1-6 | Sascha Rotermund |
| Thomas Lewen | Gaël Raës | 1-6 | Emile Ismailov |
| Max Alcorta | Roberto Calvet | 1-6 | Nicolas Rathod |
| Mathieu Ketchak | Théo Christine | 1-6 | Let Dreyer |
| Pierre Mattéoli | Olivier Barthélémy | 1-6 | Christoph Drobig |
| Irène Lecap | Isabel Otero | 1-6 | Svantje washer |
| Juliette Dubrovsky | Alexia Barlier | 1-6 | |
| Cathy Alcorta | Odile Vuillemin | 1-6 |
Supporting roles
| role | actor | Appear | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noé Alcorta | Evan Naroditzky | 1-6 | Kian Weichert |
| Romain Portella | Timothé Grilo | 1-5 | Junus Yazdani |
| Steven | Maceo Simon | 1-6 | Max fields |
| Carla | Aurore Frémont | 1-3 | Meike Finck |
| Djibril | Mehdi Bouguetof | 1-4 | Linus Drews |
| Killian | Julien Lagueny | 1-4 | Oscar Rauker |
| Margot | Alice Varela | 1-4 | Marija wall |
| Tonio | Loïc Bouadla | 1-4 | Kaze Uzumaki |
Production and broadcast
The shooting for the miniseries took place in the summer of 2018 in the south-west French department of Landes on the Atlantic coast, among others in Mimizan , Lit-et-Mixe , Contis-les-Bains , Biscarrosse and Capbreton .
France 2 broadcast the series as double episodes on October 21 and 28, and on November 4, 2019. In France, between 3.7 and 3.2 million viewers, 13.2% to 15.2% of the relevant target group, tuned in. In Germany, all episodes were broadcast one after the other on the night of June 26th to 27th, 2020 on ZDFneo and were available from June 27th, 2020 in the ZDFmediathek .
Episode list
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in France | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Five hours | Cinq heures | October 21, 2019 | June 26, 2020 | Rodolphe Tissot | Raphaëlle Roudaut & Alexis Le Sec |
| 2 | 2 | Mysterious changes | Le retur | October 21, 2019 | June 26, 2020 | Rodolphe Tissot | Raphaëlle Roudaut & Alexis Le Sec |
| 3 | 3 | revolt | Revolt | October 28, 2019 | June 26, 2020 | Rodolphe Tissot | Raphaëlle Roudaut |
| 4th | 4th | The explosion | Deflagration | October 28, 2019 | June 27, 2020 | Rodolphe Tissot | Raphaëlle Roudaut & Sophie Hiet |
| 5 | 5 | boomerang | boomerang | 4th November 2019 | June 27, 2020 | Rodolphe Tissot | Raphaëlle Roudaut & Sophie Hiet |
| 6th | 6th | ambassador | Les messagers | 4th November 2019 | June 27, 2020 | Rodolphe Tissot | Raphaëlle Roudaut & Sophie Hiet |
reception
Overall, the series was received rather negatively by critics, Carolin Ströbele praised the beautiful plot for Zeit Online , but criticized the fact that it was a French economy production that could probably have become something in Hollywood.
Oliver Armknecht states on film-rezensions.de that The Last Wave is a series in which it is not at all clear what its concept is. He also describes the idea as successful, but the clarification of what exactly happened to the surfers happens completely casually and unkind. The shown conflicts of the individual roles are in his opinion on a soap opera level and urgent conflicts from the supernatural abilities of the characters are hardly dealt with.
Jan Lehr writes in the Nordwest-Zeitung that the scriptwriters in The Last Wave manage to create an atmosphere of uncertainty and that the characters bring plenty of conflict into play through their relationships. He rates the series as exciting and mysterious overall.
Web links
- The Last Wave in Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Last Wave at Fernsehserien.de
- The last wave in the ZDFmediathek
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Last Wave: French mini-series runs on ZDFneo. In: hitchecker.de. May 12, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c The Last Wave. German dubbing file, accessed on July 6, 2020 .
- ^ The last wave. In: femundo.de. June 4, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Claire Burckel: Landes: une serie tournée dans le département diffusée dès le 21 October sur France 2. In: sudouest.fr. October 9, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Joshua Daguenet: Audiences TV Prime (lundi 21 octobre 2019): Astérix et Obélix cartonnent, La dernière vague emporte le public, Secrets d'histoire réussit ses débuts sur France 3.Toutela Tele, 22 October 2019, accessed on 7 July 2020 (French).
- ↑ Joshua Daguenet: Audiences TV Prime (lundi 4 November 2019): Camping Paradis leader ex-aequo avec L'amour est dans le pré, La dernière Vague termine bien, Secrets d'histoire remonte. Toutela Tele, November 5, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Carolin Ströbele: Probably not: "The Last Wave". In: Daniel Gerhardt, Patrick Heidmann, Marietta Steinhart and Carolin Ströbele: The best TV series in June . Time online. May 30, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020
- ↑ Oliver Armknecht: The Last Wave. In: Film-Rezensions.de. June 28, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Jan Lehr: The Last Wave on ZDFneo: Mystery series remains mysterious for a long time. In: NWZ Online. Nordwest-Zeitung, June 26, 2020, accessed on July 7, 2020 .