Top of the Lake
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Top of the Lake |
| Original title | Top of the Lake (Season 1) Top of the Lake: China Girl (Season 2) |
| Country of production |
Australia , United States , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2013 |
| length | 45 (US) or 60 (UK, D) minutes |
| Episodes | 13 (US) and 12 (UK, D) in 2 seasons |
| genre | Crime series |
| idea |
Jane Campion , Gerard Lee |
| music | Mark Bradshaw |
| First broadcast | March 15, 2013 (USA) on Sundance Channel |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 7, 2013 on Arte |
| occupation | |
Top of the Lake is a crime series whose first season started in 2013. It was developed by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee . The television series won a Critics' Choice Television Award in 2013 and received four other nominations. The 2013 TV series was shown in a Berlinale Special at the Berlin International Film Festival .
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , Top of the Lake was shown for the first time in the history of the festival, a miniseries. Jane Campion and Gerard Lee worked on the script for the second season from autumn 2014. In spring 2016, the second season was filmed under the name China Girl in Australia and in 2017 it was broadcast on various TV channels, including BBC 2. From December 7, 2017, the second season in Germany was broadcast on Arte , two episodes in a row each week.
action
season 1
The first season takes place in New Zealand .
The twelve-year-old Tui tries to kill herself in the ice-cold lake. It turns out that Tui, daughter of the local drug lord, is five months pregnant. The Sydney police officer Robin, who is visiting her terminally ill mother, is called in as a specialist in child abuse by the youth welfare office at the Southern Lakes Police. The girl says "NO ONE" as the father of the fetus with Robin. Al Parker, the local police chief, arranges for Tui to be brought back to her father Matt Mitcham and her two adult half-brothers. At the same time, the dangerous trio Bob Platt drowns. The real estate agent had sold the "Paradise" property to a women's group against Matt's stated will. The head of the group is the androgynous GJ, who gives life support to the disaffected women living in containers. After Tui has threatened her father with a rifle without consequences, she leaves her father's fortress-like house on a horse with her dog, rifle and ammunition and rides to the paradise property. Tui reveals her pregnancy to the hospitable women and stays overnight. The next day she disappeared without a trace, the dog is back with her father and the horse is found on the street without a rider.
Robin takes over the search in the surrounding mountains. The first suspicion falls on the Austrian Wolfgang Zanic, who lives secluded in the forest and already has a criminal record for pedophilia. Robin suspects that he is hiding Tui in his basement. In his house in the woods, Robin finds photos of children in traditional costumes, including Tui. When Robin wants to ask him about it, he threatens her with a gun and can only be reassured by Robin's former friend Johnno. Even in the women's camp in “Paradise”, Robin receives no evidence of Tui's disappearance, but meets Guru GJ, who means that she will bring the search for the girl to her knees.
Soon after, Wolfgang Zanic is found hanged on his forest property. His apparent suicide raises questions. Robin's colleague Al invites her to dinner and reveals her past, which Robin would have liked to suppress and which shows parallels to Tui's fate: Robin was raped by four drunk men at the age of 15, one of whom is still living locally.
season 2
After four years in New Zealand, Robin is back working as a detective in Sydney. The body of a young Asian woman is soon found on the beach; the autopsy reveals that she was pregnant but there was no relationship to the fetus, which raises the suspicion of surrogacy . In her free time, Robin contacts the adoptive parents of her daughter Mary, who is in a relationship with the much older Alex, a failed history doctoral student who lives above a brothel and is involved in the Thai prostitute business. Meanwhile, Robin and her colleague Miranda brings a hallucinating woman who is looking for her baby on the trail of a fertility clinic. It soon turns out that Mary's mysterious friend Alex belongs to the brothel where the missing China girl worked.
occupation
The synchronization of the series was created by Studio Hamburg Synchron under the dialogue direction of Frank Wesel.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Robin | Elisabeth Moss | Simona Pahl |
| Johnno Mitcham | Thomas M. Wright | Oliver Boettcher |
| Matt Mitcham | Peter Mullan | Thomas Fritsch |
| Al | David Wenham | Michael Lott |
| Anita | Robyn Malcolm | Traudel Sparrowhawk |
| GJ | Holly Hunter | Cornelia Meinhardt |
| Prue | Sarah Valentine | Tina Eschmann |
| mark | Jay Ryan | Marios Gavrilis |
| Tui Angel Mitcham | Jacqueline Joe | Florentine Draeger |
| Julia | Nicole Kidman | Petra Barthel |
reception
season 1
“Top of the Lake tells in six to seven episodes (depending on the cut) of a criminal case and its investigation - and is still something of the craziest thing that is currently on television. The landscape through which Peter Jackson once had his hobbit wear the damned ring is rough, and the people fit in well. "
season 2
"Jane Campion takes a feminist look at the world of Robin Griffin [...] and creates realistic female figures, beyond trite clichés."
Episodes
There are two versions of the first season: a seven hour episode version that was shown at the 2013 Sundance Festival and from March 18 to April 15, 2013 on the Sundance Channel. The episodes of this version have no titles, but are simply numbered (episodes 1–7). In Germany, on the other hand , the broadcaster Arte resorted to an edited version that was first broadcast by the British broadcaster BBC Two in July and August 2013 and consists of six one-hour episodes with their own titles. The following list contains the six-part version.
season 1
| No. | German title | Original title | First broadcast in UK | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paradise sold | Paradise Sold | July 13, 2013 | Nov 7, 2013 | Jane Campion | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 2 | The search | Searchers Search | 20th July 2013 | Nov 7, 2013 | Garth Davis | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 3 | At the edge of the universe | The Edge of the Universe | July 27, 2013 | Nov 7, 2013 | Garth Davis | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 4th | Under the rainbow | A Rainbow Above Us | Aug 3, 2013 | Nov 14, 2013 | Jane Campion | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 5 | The dark creator | The Dark Creator | Aug 10, 2013 | Nov 14, 2013 | Garth Davis | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 6th | Without saying goodbye | No goodbyes thanks | 17th Aug 2013 | Nov 14, 2013 | Jane Campion | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in UK | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th | 1 | China girl | China girl | 27 Jul 2017 | 7th Dec 2017 | Jane Campion | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 8th | 2 | Blood ties | The Loved One | 3rd Aug 2017 | 7th Dec 2017 | Ariel Kleiman | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 9 | 3 | The surrogate mother | Surrogates | 10 Aug 2017 | Dec 14, 2017 | Ariel Kleiman | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 10 | 4th | Birthday | Birthday | 17th Aug 2017 | Dec 14, 2017 | Ariel Kleiman | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 11 | 5 | Who is your daddy? | Who's your daddy? | 21 Aug 2017 | Dec 21, 2017 | Jane Campion | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
| 12 | 6th | The struggle of the mothers | The Battle of the Mothers | 31 Aug 2017 | Dec 21, 2017 | Ariel Kleiman | Jane Campion & Gerard Lee |
Awards and nominations
- Primetime Emmy Awards
- Nomination for Best Miniseries or TV Movie
- Nomination for leading actress in a miniseries or a television film (Elisabeth Moss)
- Nomination for supporting actor in a miniseries or a TV movie (Peter Mullan)
- Nomination for directing a miniseries, a television film or a special (Jane Campion and Garth Davis)
- Nomination for a script for a miniseries, a TV movie or a special (Jane Campion and Gerard Lee)
- Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- Nomination for a casting for a miniseries, a television film or a special
- Award for camera work for a miniseries or a television film (Episode: Part 1 )
- Nomination Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or Movie (Episode: Part 5 )
- Nomination for Best Miniseries or TV Movie
- Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie (Elisabeth Moss)
- Nomination for Best Film or Miniseries
- Award for Best Actress in a Film or Mini-Series (Elisabeth Moss)
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series (Peter Mullan)
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series (David Wenham)
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Film or Mini-Series (Thomas M. Wright)
Web links
- Top of the Lake in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Arte
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.berlinale.de/de/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/02_programm_2013/02_Filmdatenblatt_2013_20134053.php
- ↑ http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/sundance-top-of-the-lake-jane-campion-elisabeth-moss-holly-hunter.html
- ↑ Axel Schmitt: Top of the Lake: Jane Campion and Gerard Lee are working on season 2 . Serienjunkies.de . October 16, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
- ↑ https://www.musikexpress.de/in-der-2-staffel-top-of-the-lake-spielt-ein-game-of-thrones-star-mit-510287/ accessed on May 7, 2016
- ↑ German synchronous index | Series | Top of the Lake. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Katharina Riehl: Very big television. Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed on August 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Strong mothers and a wild daughter. femundo.de, accessed on January 6, 2018 .