Trapped - Trapped in Iceland

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Television series
German title Trapped - Trapped in Iceland
Original title Ófærð
Country of production Iceland , Germany
original language Icelandic , English , Danish
Year (s) since 2015
Production
company		 RVK Studios
length Original version: 50 minutes,
ZDF version: 95 minutes
Episodes Original version: 20 in 2+ seasons ( list )
genre Crime , drama , thriller , Nordic noir
idea Baltasar Kormákur
First broadcast December 27, 2015 on RÚV

First publication in German		 February 17, 2017 on ZDFmediathek
occupation

For more actors see main article
Season 1 and Season 2

Trapped - Gefangen in Iceland (original title Ófærð , isl. For impassable ) is an Icelandic- German crime TV series that began in 2015. In the original version it consists of two 10-part seasons, a third season is planned. In the German version of the second season broadcast by ZDF, the series is called Trapped II - Gefangen in Iceland . The main role of the police investigator Andri Ólafsson is played by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson . The series is about the investigation of violent crimes by a police team in a small Icelandic town led by Ólafsson.

action

At the center of the plot are the investigations of a team of police officers, which is headed in the first season by Inspector Andri Ólafsson and which also includes Hinrika Kristjánsdóttir and Ásgeir Þórarinsson. The main location is the small town of Seyðisfjörður , which is located on the fjord of the same name on the east coast of Iceland.

The starting point for the first season in 2015 is a male torso that is found by chance in the fjord. In the course of the plot there are further deaths, including the murder of the mayor. There is also a death in 2008, about the cause of which new information is revealed. Some of the deaths are related to personal gain, fraud, revenge, rape, and human trafficking, as well as plans that include building a port on the fjord where ships will stop on the route between China and America.

The second season begins with an assassination attempt on a politician in Reykjavík . The trail leads Ólafsson, who had meanwhile moved to Reykjavík, back to the coastal town. He is investigating again together with Hinrika Kristjánsdóttir - meanwhile the local police chief - and Ásgeir Þórarinsson. The right-wing extremist group "Thors Hammer" seems to be involved in the attack. Shortly afterwards, the mayor who wants to sign a deal with an American company is kidnapped. Events come to a head as more murders occur and old, grim family histories come to light.

History of origin

Idea and project planning

Sigurjón Kjartansson , development manager, producer and showrunner at the Icelandic production studio RVK Studios , pursued the intention of creating a television drama series for the international market together with producer Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson . RVK Studios, headed by Baltasar Kormákur , developed the series with the help of foreign scriptwriters and also entered into a partnership with the transatlantic production and distribution company Dynamic Television . The German Klaus Zimmermann , active as Executive Producer at Dynamic Television, helped to hire the British Clive Bradley as a screenwriter. On the basis of the script written by Bradley for the pilot episode, ZDF also began to participate in the project. The screenwriters for the first season were Zimmermann, Bradley, Kjartansson and the French Sonia Moyersoen , whose connections with the channel France 2 led to the fact that it aired the series. For these reasons, the series is financially and artistically an international co-production with the participation of RVK Studios, the Icelandic broadcaster RÚV , ZDF, France Télévisions , Danish broadcasting , Swedish broadcasting , Norwegian broadcasting , Finnish broadcasting and the British BBC .

Locations

Most of the recordings for the first season were made in the town of Siglufjörður , which is closer to Reykjavik than the location Seyðisfjörður and is therefore cheaper.

publication

The Icelandic public television broadcaster RÚV began broadcasting the first season on December 27, 2015 and broadcast the remaining episodes of the season weekly until February 2016. The second season followed in a similar rhythm from December 2018 to February 2019.

The German broadcaster ZDF broadcast the first season synchronized with German from February 19 to March 19, 2017, the second season from October 20 to November 17, 2019. However, ZDF broadcast the seasons in a different cut than the Icelandic original version . Originally ten episodes, 45 to 50 minutes long, became five 90-minute television films per season. Before they were first broadcast on television, ZDF made the films available for viewing via video-on-demand in the ZDF mediathek , in the case of the first season from February 17, 2017.

In Germany, at least the first season of 2018 was also shown on the pay TV broadcaster Sky Atlantic , but here in the 10-part version. In this version and in German, Amazon Prime Video also made both seasons available for download. In addition, the first season was released in German on March 20, 2017 on DVD and Blu-ray .

A third season is in the works (as of January 16, 2020).

Episode list

season 1

RÚV version ZDF version
Ep. First issue Ep. First issue Director Screenwriters
1 Dec. 27, 2015 1 19th Feb 2017 Baltasar Kormákur Sigurjón Kjartansson , Clive Bradley
2 0Jan. 3, 2016 Baldvin Zophoníasson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson
3 Jan. 10, 2016 2 Feb. 26, 2017 Baldvin Zophoníasson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley, Ólafur Egilsson
4th Jan. 17, 2016 Baldvin Zophoníasson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley, Ólafur Egilsson, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson
5 Jan. 24, 2016 3 05th Mar 2017 Óskar Thór Axelsson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley, Ólafur Egilsson
6th Jan. 31, 2016 Börkur Sigþórsson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson
7th 0Feb 7, 2016 4th March 12 2017 Óskar Thór Axelsson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley, Ólafur Egilsson, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson
8th Feb 14, 2016 Óskar Thór Axelsson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley, Ólafur Egilsson, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson
9 Feb 21, 2016 5 19 Mar 2017 Börkur Sigþórsson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley
10 Baltasar Kormákur Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley

season 2

RÚV version ZDF version
Ep.
(Total) 		Ep.
(St.) 		First issue Ep.
(St.) 		First issue Director Screenwriter (s)
11 1 26 Dec 2018 1 Oct. 20, 2019 Baltasar Kormákur Clive Bradley , Sigurjón Kjartansson
12 2 Dec 30, 2018 Börkur Sigþórsson Clive Bradley
13 3 0Jan. 6, 2019 2 Oct. 27, 2019 Börkur Sigþórsson Margrét Örnólfsdóttir , Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley
14th 4th Jan. 13, 2019 Ugla Hauksdóttir Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley
15th 5 Jan. 20, 2019 3 0Nov 3, 2019 Börkur Sigþórsson Clive Bradley
16 6th Jan. 27, 2019 Börkur Sigþórsson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley
17th 7th 03rd Feb 2019 4th Nov 10, 2019 Ugla Hauksdóttir Holly Phillips , Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley
18th 8th Feb 10, 2019 Óskar Thór Axelsson Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley
19th 9 17th Feb 2019 5 17th Nov 2019 Óskar Thór Axelsson Clive Bradley
20th 10 Feb. 24, 2019 Baltasar Kormákur Sigurjón Kjartansson, Clive Bradley

criticism

German media were mostly satisfied with the first season. Spiegel online emphasized an “excellently written script”. The Berliner Morgenpost found Trapped to be a convincing series, its director Kormákur had the right feeling "for the little moment that can shake a person's life inside". The Stuttgarter Zeitung judged the series overall as “worth seeing”, but criticized the German dubbing of some actors as “cheek” and complained about the lighting, because it was apparently disregarded that it was completely dark half day in Iceland at the beginning of February. Zeit online emphasized that the series stands out from other Nordic noir thrillers both because of its “political plot” and because of its aesthetics, in which the relationship between nature and humans predominates .

The film critic Barbara Schweizerhof highlighted the seriousness of the series as her best asset in epd Film in 2020 . You don't have to make the audience laugh in order to pull them to the side of the characters. In the two previous seasons, the scriptwriters have also managed to make the links between the crimes and Andri's family seem natural.

Awards

  • Edda
    • 2016: five nominations, including four awards, including TV drama / comedy of the year
    • 2017: Awarded TV program of the year
  • Prix ​​Europa , 2016: Award for the best episode of a fictional television series
  • Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, 2016: Award for the best fictional television series
  • Camerimage , 2015: nomination for best pilot film

literature

  • Berit Glanz : Icelandic Nature and Global Evils - Concepts of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Nordic Noir TV Series from Iceland , in: European Journal of Scandinavian Studies Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2019, pp. 128–140
  • Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade: Locating Nordic Noir. From Beck to The Bridge. , Palgrave Macmillan , Cham ZG 2017 (Palgrave European Film and Media Studies), pp. 247–268: Trapped and Original Noir from Iceland and Norway

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alva Gehrmann: Lots of thrillers, hardly any murders , in: Der Spiegel from Feb. 16, 2017
  2. ↑ Hansen and Waade 2017, p. 252 f.
  3. ↑ Hansen and Waade 2017, p. 253
  4. ↑ a b broadcast dates at fernsehserien.de , accessed on Feb. 15, 2020
  5. ^ Ragnar Tómas: What Is the Current Status of Trapped: Season Three? , in: Iceland Review on Jan 16, 2020, accessed Feb 16, 2020
  6. ↑ Original version of the first season , in: fernsehserien.de , accessed on Feb. 2, 2020
  7. ^ ZDF version of the first season , in: fernsehserien.de , accessed on Feb. 2, 2020
  8. ↑ Original version of the second season , in: fernsehserien.de , accessed on Feb. 2, 2020
  9. ↑ ZDF version of the second season , in: fernsehserien.de , accessed on Feb. 2, 2020
  10. ↑ Alva Gehrmann: Many thrillers, hardly any murders , in: Der Spiegel from Feb. 16, 2017, accessed on Feb. 15, 2020
  11. ^ Arnold Hohmann: "Trapped - Gefangen in Iceland" - Murden in the Far North , in: Berliner Morgenpost from Feb. 19, 2017, accessed on Feb. 15, 2020
  12. ↑ Jan Friday: Murder in the refrigerator , in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of Feb. 14, 2017, accessed on Feb. 15, 2020
  13. ↑ Carolin Ströbele: Entfesselte Gier , in: Zeit online from Feb. 17, 2017, accessed on Feb. 15, 2020
  14. ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: Snow and bad weather , in: epd film No. 1/2020, pp. 18–19