The Slap - Just a slap

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Television series
German title The Slap - Just a slap
Original title The slap
Country of production Australia
original language Australian English
year 2011
Production
company		 Screen Australia, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation , Film Victoria, Matchbox Pictures
length 52 minutes
Episodes 8 in 1 season
genre Drama series
production Tony Ayres , Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon
music Antony Partos, Irine Vela, Jono Ma, Gabriel Winterfield
camera Andrew Commis, Andy Canny
First broadcast October 6, 2011 (Australia) on ABC1
German-language
first broadcast		 September 5, 2013 on Arte
occupation
synchronization

The Slap - Only a slap (original title: The Slap ) is an eight-part Australian television - Miniseries . It is based on the award-winning novel Just a Slap by the Australian author Christos Tsiolkas . The starting point of the plot is that a man slaps a child to whom he is not related.

The series was first broadcast on the Australian broadcaster ABC1 between October 6 and November 24, 2011. The German dubbed version was first broadcast on Arte from September 5 to September 26, 2013 .

Critics received The Slap largely benevolently. The series received several Australian television awards and was internationally nominated for an Emmy , among others .

content

main characters

The main characters are linked by friendship or family at the beginning of the plot. The friendships sometimes change over the course of the series.

  • Hector is an Australian of Greek descent. He is forty years old and has apparently achieved everything. He belongs to the middle class , is financially secure and in good physical shape. He is married to the beautiful Aisha, with whom he has two children. They live together in a house with a garden in a suburb of Melbourne .
  • Aisha is Hector's wife. She has Mauritian and Indian roots. With her strength and temperament, she sets the tone in the family. She is a veterinarian and runs her own practice.
  • Anouk is a friend of Aisha. She is chief dramaturge and author of an internationally successful soap opera. However, she dreams of writing a novel. She has a relationship with Rhys, the star of the soap opera, who is around twenty years younger than her.
  • Rosie is also a friend of Aisha. She adores her five-year-old son Hugo, whom she still breastfeeds . Her husband, Gary, is a drinker.
  • Harry is Hector's cousin and a successful self-made man who runs his own garage as a mechanic. He lives with his wife and son in a modern house on the beach with a pool and tennis court.
  • Manolis is Hector's father. He immigrated to Australia from Greece as a young man. He is nearing the end of his life; his friends die one by one. Honor and the cohesion of the family are important to him, even if he often does not share the views of the following generations.
  • Connie is a 17 year old orphan who lives with her aunt. She is doing her final year of high school , works as a babysitter and helps out in Aisha's practice. She raves about the much older Hector.
  • Richie goes to school with Connie and is her best friend. Like Connie, he is still unsure of his identity and moral values.

action

Each episode shows the events from the perspective of one of the main characters. The first episode describes how the slap came about. The subsequent episodes describe how the event affects the main characters in the weeks that follow.

Episode 1: Hector

On the occasion of Hector's 40th birthday, his friends and family get together for a barbecue. Hector also invites Connie to the party at short notice. She brings her best friend Richie with her. Hector flirts with her again and again, hidden from the other guests. Meanwhile, the children present are playing in the garden. When Rosie's spoiled five-year-old son Hugo attacks the other children with a cricket bat, Harry intervenes and slaps him in front of the other guests. Thereupon the party society breaks up in a heated argument.

Episode 2: Anouk

Anouk is involved in caring for her mother, who is suffering from cancer. She rejects Rhys' suggestion that they both quit their jobs and travel across Europe. Rosie has reported Harry because of the slap, the party guests are supposed to testify in court. Anouk refuses to protect Hugo because, in her opinion, he deserves the slap. As a result, she turns her friends Rosie and Aisha against her. Even childless, she does not feel taken seriously by them. At the same time, Rhys seems too young to start a family with him. When he becomes pregnant, she has an abortion.

Episode 3: Harry

The circle of friends is increasingly dividing into two camps. Anouk stands between the fronts: She thinks Hugo's parents' reaction is excessive, but feels connected to Rosie as a friend. Hector feels the same way: If he is loyal to his cousin Harry, he will turn Rosie and with it his wife Aisha against him. Harry meets with a lawyer to prepare for the trial. At the urging of his family, he also tries to apologize to Rosie and Gary in order to avert the lawsuit. During the conversation that Hector accompanies him to, he is provoked by Rosie until the situation escalates again and Harry curses and goes away.

Episode 4: Connie

Connie continues to love Hector. One evening, at Aisha's request, she takes care of Aisha and Hector's children. Then Hector drives her home. On this occasion Connie starts another approach, which Hector responds to. The following evening Connie confesses her love to him. But Hector explains to her that he regrets what happened the night before and that he will not leave his family. Connie confides in her friend Richie. Angry with Hector, she claims he raped her, but asks Richie to keep this a secret. Then she throws herself into party life.

Episode 5: Rosie

At the trial against Harry, only Connie and Rosie's friend Shamira are willing to testify in his favor. Harry's lawyer brings Rosie up by revealing details of her personal life that make her look like an irresponsible mother. The court will not punish Harry for triviality . After the trial, Gary gets drunk and announces that he doesn't want to come home. Shamira's husband Bilal's reluctant attempt to bring Gary home fails and ends with Bilal forbidding Rosie from contact with Shamira.

Episode 6: Manolis

Manolis angrily watches how his family has become estranged since the slap. Because Aisha cannot forgive Harry, she distances herself from Hector's family and does not even appear at the funeral of Hector's godparents. Hector argues with Harry because Harry has passed on private information about Rosie to his lawyer. Manolis tries to reconcile the cousins. But Hector is preoccupied with his own problems: he is repeatedly cursed as a "rapist" by a stranger via SMS .

At the funeral, Manolis beats his old friend Thanasis after he flirted with Manoli's wife. Hector then takes him away from the funeral service. In a Greek pub, Hector confesses his affair with Connie to his father, and Manolis reveals that he only married Hector's mother because she was pregnant. Manolis gets drunk on the way home with an old friend who is terminally ill; then he visits a prostitute. When he returns home, he has long felt closer to his wife again.

Episode 7: Aisha

Rosie cut off contact with Aisha after the trial. Aisha argues with Hector over and over again about the process and because she has canceled her vacation in Greece with Hector's family. At a congress for veterinarians, Aisha meets the successful and charismatic doctor and spends a night with him. Then she drives to Hector in a resort , where the two want to celebrate their wedding anniversary. At dinner, however, Hector breaks down crying and confesses to Aisha that he was having an affair without telling who he was with. Aisha pretends to be indignant, but has hardly any feelings for Hector.

Aisha tries to make up with Rosie. However, when she tells her that Harry has been violent against his wife before, the argument starts again because this would have been important for the trial against Harry.

Episode 8: Richie

Believing that Hector raped Connie, Richie pressures him with anonymous text messages. At the same time, he feels drawn to the attractive man. When he secretly tries to photograph him in the locker room of a swimming pool, Hector catches him and recognizes him as the SMS writer. Richie runs away.

Connie cannot be persuaded by Richie to report Hector because of the alleged rape. Desperate, Richie confides the secret to Rosie and Gary. They confront Aisha with it. However, Connie explains that Hector did not rape her and reveals that Richie is attracted to Hector. Ashamed, Richie attempts suicide, but is saved by his mother. After that he develops more self-confidence, apologizes to Hector and is open about his homosexuality .

Production history

Pre-production

In May 2009, production company Matchbox Pictures announced that it would be adapting Christos Tsiolkas ' novel Just a Slap as a television series . This was preceded by a bidding competition for the rights to the film adaptation of the work. The author Tsiolkas himself took part in the selection of the production company. An important person for him was Tony Ayres from Matchbox Pictures, whose films Tsiolkas knows and likes. Ayres became the showrunner of the series, as well as acting as producer and directing two episodes . Other producers were Helen Bowden and Michael McMahon. They were supported by Penny Chapman as executive producer .

Development of the scripts

Since the novel tells eight episodes from the perspective of a main character, she gave the series an eight-part structure. At the same time, it should be avoided that eight self-contained episodes arise that make the adaptation look like an episode film. To counteract this effect, two story arcs were developed that connect the individual episodes with one another: for one, the court case initiated by Rosie provided the material, for the other, Connie's crush on Hector.

The episodes were also separated in terms of personnel. Four directors were selected to each produce two of the episodes in their own style. In addition to Ayres, these are Robert Connolly, Jessica Hobbs and Matthew Saville. Likewise, different authors are responsible for the scripts of the individual episodes. Kris Mrksa, Emily Ballou and Brendan Cowell wrote two of the scripts, and Alice Bell and Cate Shortland wrote one each. Tsiolkas, the author of the novel, acted as a consultant to the scriptwriters. However, he declined to write the scripts himself because he believed that new influences were important when adapting the novel for the screen.

For three weeks, the directors worked through the scripts together with Tsiolkas and the scriptwriters. They discussed the style of the series and the presentation of the characters. They made a philosophy that each episode should explore a character without criticizing them. The characters should keep their corners and edges and be presented with all the openness and severity that characterized the novel. At the same time, the audience shouldn't be denied the ability to understand and empathize with a character. Later, during the film editing , the results of this approach were checked. Two test groups were shown excerpts from the series; some had read the novel, others hadn't. The first ones liked the episode Rosie the most , although they particularly disliked the one in the book. According to producer Bowden, the test subjects all stated that Rosie was no different, but more understandable.

Casting the roles

The selection of actors was led by Jane Norris as casting director ; Norris is married to the director Connolly. When casting the roles, it was important to those responsible that the actors matched the characters' ethnic origins as well as possible. In the case of Aisha - a character of Anglo-Indian origin in the novel - this led to a lengthy selection process. Connolly flew to London to audition actresses of British-Indian descent. After meeting Sophie Okonedo , who has Nigerian and Ashkenazi roots, the decision was made to adapt the script; the role was now of Mauritian-Indian descent. Tsiolkas was very open to these changes, Connolly reported later. It was essentially important to him that Aisha did not see herself in the middle of Australian society because of her origins, a commonality that connects her with Hector and his closely connected Greek family.

It was also important for producer Bowden to find actors who would come across as fresh and unknown. As a revelation, she said that Norris had proposed Jonathan LaPaglia for the role of Hector. To have found in him an Australian actor of the right age, who is both experienced and still unknown to the general public in Australia, is “a jewel”.

Filming

Filming began on January 19, 2011. The series was shot as close as possible to the locations that the novel suggests. However, it does not show the viewer this geographical accuracy through landmarks or similar landmarks. The main location of the action is the Australian metropolis of Melbourne , especially the districts of Alphington , Northcote and Fitzroy . There are deviations, for example, in the location of Hector and Aisha's house, which the novel is based in Northcote, and the television series in Alphington. To celebrate their wedding anniversary, Hector and Aisha go to Byron Bay , not Bali . Tsiolkas reacted calmly to these changes: What matters is what happens to the characters, not where it happens.

German dubbed version

The German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron . Directed by Monica Bielenstein based on dialogue books by Reginakette; Uta Cappel was responsible for the editing.

Actor and voice actor

role actor Voice actor
Hector Jonathan LaPaglia Peter Flechtner
Anouk Essie Davis Sabine Arnhold
Harry Alex Dimitriades Jan-David Rönfeldt
Connie Sophie Lowe Maximiliane Häcke
Rosie Melissa George Manja Doering
Manolis Lex Marinos Kostas Papanastasiou
Aisha Sophie Okonedo Katrin Zimmermann
Richie Blake Davis Dirk Petrick
Gary Anthony Hayes Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Hugo Julian Mineo
speaker William McInnes Oliver Siebeck

Episodes

No. German title Original title First broadcast in Australia German language first broadcast (D) Director script
1 Hector Hector Oct 6, 2011 5th Sep 2013 Jessica Hobbs Kris Mrksa
2 Anouk Anouk Oct 13, 2011 5th Sep 2013 Jessica Hobbs Emily Ballou
3 Harry Harry Oct 20, 2011 Sep 12 2013 Matthew Saville Brendan Cowell
4th Connie Connie Oct. 27, 2011 Sep 12 2013 Matthew Saville Alice Bell
5 Rosie Rosie Nov 3, 2011 19 Sep 2013 Robert Connolly Cate Shortland
6th Manolis Manolis Nov 10, 2011 19 Sep 2013 Tony Ayres Kris Mrksa
7th Aisha Aisha Nov 17, 2011 26 Sep 2013 Robert Connolly Emily Ballou
8th Richie Richie Oct 24, 2011 26 Sep 2013 Tony Ayres Brendan Cowell

Publication and audience numbers

The Slap premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival . The first two episodes were shown there on August 4, 2011. The screening, which was attended by actors and members of the film crew , was sold out. The audience voted them among the ten best screenings at the festival.

It premiered on Australian television on October 6, 2011 on ABC1 . The station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from then on showed the series on a weekly basis every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. One day later, the episodes were repeated on sister station ABC2 at 9:30 p.m. When it was first broadcast on ABC1, The Slap - Just a Slap in the Face achieved stable ratings, but fell short of expectations. The first episode was seen by around 946,000 viewers. The premiere thus remained below the one million mark, which is considered to be the hallmark of success on ABC1.

The German dubbed version was published by Arte on September 5, 2013 . The station always broadcast two episodes on Thursdays from 8:15 p.m. The audience ratings were very good at the beginning: The first episode reached 250,000 viewers, the second afterwards even 270,000. The market share was thus one percent, an above-average value for Arte. The other double consequences could not keep this quota. An average of 210,000 viewers each saw the eight episodes, which corresponds to a market share of 0.8 percent. This corresponds exactly to the channel average that Arte achieved in the 2012/2013 season.

Selected critic voices

Australia

The Australian press received the series largely positively. The Daily Telegraph praised the series as "arguably the best Australian drama series of the year [2011]". Dimitriades, Lowe and George had "delivered breathtaking representations that should find worldwide recognition." What is great about the series, however, are "the shades between black and white, [and] the quicksand that devours those who feel morally right."

The joint critics of the sister newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald came to a mixed verdict . While most of his colleagues in the series praised the series, Clem Bastow - after just one episode - came to a different point of view: “… listless direction and lifeless editing (long pauses between large swaths of dialogue), an adaptation of the long sections of the story squeezes into bite-sized nibbles (you watch Hector and Connie's swooping glances and kisses until Connie suddenly thinks he's repulsive), the actors wander between all of this. ”Bastow also describes the main actor LaPaglia as“ one of the least charismatic actors [of Australia] ”, and“ usually dependable talents ”like George, Hayes, Dimitriades and Okonedo would have lost on him and appeared to panic at times.

In contrast, Jason Steger, for example, also wrote after the first episode that it promised a lot for the next seven: “That was 55 minutes of skillfully written television that stayed true to Tsiolkas' desire to portray the Melbourne of the present. [...] What impressed me was the casting and the acting. "Larissa Dubecki said:" Quite simply, The Slap [...] is a triumph, [...] a series that has to be seen. "And Jim Schembri said The Slap as a “brilliant, enchanting, elaborately knitted mini-series. […] The Slap is quite simply a great adult story, so disturbing in exploring deeply ingrained suburban prejudices and equally gorgeous. ”Ultimately, the Sydney Morning Herald unanimously voted for the series with its Couch Potato Award for Best Australian drama series 2011.

The online magazine Crikey praised it: “The processes and interpersonal relationships are captivating from the start, the story actually has bite and tension, without giving in to prejudices about race or culture. The Slap shows the multi-cultural Australian middle class in a way that is seldom seen in film and television. "Directors and actors are a solid cast of Australian talent. Based on the first two episodes, "it is likely that The Slap will be a huge hit with critics and audiences."

German language area

In the German-speaking area, too, the reviews were mostly good. The daily newspaper described The Slap as "a self-contained story over eight episodes that not only wants to look behind the freshly plastered terraced house facades, but also paints a panorama of the entire Australian society, across immigrant milieus and social classes."

Similarly, the Süddeutsche Zeitung highlighted the series' narrative structure. It is “not a large, visually powerful narrative television, but a collection of small stories that result in a large picture.” The standard also saw one of the strengths of the series in the combination of individual fates into an overall story: “Eight episodes combine eight individual stories to a big whole: a family celebration as a trip on the ghost train of human abysses. "

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted that The Slap was characterized by “a tendency towards the melodramatic that was difficult to bear.” This, however, underlined the depressing emptiness of the figures, hollowed out by financial carelessness. In this way, the series succeeds in demonstrating the failure of life's plans. It is strongest “when there is no arguing or mourning, but everyone is standing in a circle with their drinks and keeping silent to one another.” For Spiegel Online this was thanks to the television adaptation: “It is the great achievement of the actors and the Directed that the characters do not degenerate into decals of moneyed Aussie Asis. Under her rage, new facets of her person are revealed, the consumption mania goes hand in hand with fine spirit, even sensitivity. "

The Hamburger Abendblatt stated: “The series penetrates deeply and vividly into the characters and problems, shows doubts and despair, lost illusions. A wonderful social panorama was created. [...] And it's entertaining. All of this is much more than we usually see on TV. "

Awards

Diana Glenn with her AACTA Award

The series has been nominated internationally for several television awards, including an Emmy , the British television award BATA and the Monte Carlo television festival . It was mainly awarded in the country of origin, including five AACTA Awards and two Logie Awards .

price category person Result
AACTA Awards 2012 Best Telefeature, Mini Series or Short Run Series The slap Won
Best Lead Actor Alex Dimitriades Won
Jonathan LaPaglia Nominated
Best Guest or Supporting Actress - Drama Diana Glenn Won
Best Director Matthew Saville Won
Jessica Hobbs Nominated
Best screenplay Brendan Cowell Won
Kris Mrksa Nominated
Best male performance Lex Marinos Nominated
Australian Directors Guild Awards Best Direction in a TV Drama Series Matt Saville Won
Australian Writers' Guild Awards Television Mini Series - Adaptation The slap Won
BATA 2012 Best International Program The slap Nominated
International Emmy Award 2012 Best drama series The slap Nominated
Logie Awards 2012 Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie The slap Won
Most Outstanding Actor Alex Dimitriades Nominated
Most Outstanding Actress Melissa George Won
Essie Davis Nominated
Nymph d'Or 2012 Outstanding International Producer (Drama Series) Michael McMahon , Helen Bowden , Tony Ayres Nominated
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series Melissa George Nominated
Sophie Okonedo Nominated
Outstanding Actors in a Drama Series Blake Davis Nominated
Anthony Hayes Nominated
Screen Music Awards Best Television Theme Antony Partos Won
Best soundtrack album Antony Partos , Michael Lira , Jono Ma , Irine Vela Won
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Antony Partos Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

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