Trapped - Trapped in Iceland / Season 2

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Season 2 of Trapped
title Trapped II - Trapped in Iceland
Original title Ófærð
Episodes 10 (original version)
or 5 (ZDF version)
Country of production Iceland , Germany
First broadcast Dec. 26, 2018 - Feb. 24, 2019 on RÚV

First publication in German		 Oct. 18, 2019 on ZDFmediathek
German-language
first broadcast		 Oct. 20, 2019 - Nov. 17, 2019 on ZDF
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synchronization

This article covers the 10-part second season of the Icelandic-German TV series Ófærð in the Icelandic version , which is called Trapped II in the German version of this season .

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In front of the parliament building in Reykjavík, the sheep farmer Gísli, who comes from the Seyðisfjörður area , set off an arson attack on his twin sister Halla, who is the Icelandic minister of industry. Gísli dies and Halla is seriously injured. Commissioner Andri Ólafsson begins to investigate the background to the attack and is working with his former police colleagues Hinrika and Ásgeir in the Siglufjörður area . Halla recently pushed ahead with the expansion of a power plant to include an aluminum plant with geothermal energy with the support of the Icelandic Prime Minister and the mayor of Siglufjörður . The police investigate that shortly before his death Gísli was expropriated from his property due to the expansion of the power plant. The US company American Aluminum is an investor in the aluminum plant . The expansion of the power plant has been heavily criticized in public, on the one hand by residents, who fear earthquakes and the release of toxic gases, and on the other hand by nationalists who are against foreign influence. The latter also includes the right-wing extremist group Thors Hammer , to which the brothers Skúli and Torfi are close.

Less than 24 hours after the attack, Gíslis and Halla's brother-in-law Finnur, who was employed in the power station, was found dead in his barn, murdered by a nail gun. The police suspect Skúli and Torfi of the murder. While Skúli is on the run from the police, Torfi confesses to the murder, as Finnur is a traitor to the fatherland. But since he lies about the confession, Andri realizes that he cannot be the murderer. During his detention, Torfi indicated to the police that something specific was about to happen. A little later, Skúli, exhausted, is picked up in the mountains by special police officers before he is taken to a hospital in Reykjavík. There the doctors found life-threatening poisoning.

Public anger is also directed against the mayoress Hafdís, who one day finds her house smeared with a warning that she will atone as a traitor. Hafdis is kidnapped the day before the planned signing of a letter of intent between the Prime Minister and American Aluminum , making Torfi's suggestion come true. The hooded kidnappers are three supporters of Thor's Hammer , including Hafdis' hairdresser Anna Stina and her partner Thomas. They force Hafdis, doused with blood-red liquid and threatened with death, to read aloud the group's demand that all contracts with foreign companies be terminated, especially those that employ Muslims . The group then disseminates the sentences read as a video on the Internet. When Hafdis learns Anna Stina's identity unplanned, the kidnappers get into an argument, as a result of which Hafdis is shot. In the meantime, the police have tracked down the kidnappers with the help of a journalist and surveillance recordings. Through Skúli's information to his father Ketill, the police find the hijackers' hiding place and free Hafdis. Thomas is shot dead by a police officer. The group achieved its goal of not signing the letter of intent after all.

A cell phone video showing Skúli and Torfi proves to the police that the brothers cannot possibly have been Finnur's murderers and that someone is trying to accuse them of the murder. Therefore, the policemen shed light on Finnur's surroundings and past. They learn that Finnur actually broke his arm, which was caused by an alleged accident, while at work in an argument because of his racist and anti-gay remarks. Gísli's son Víkingur and - as part of a squad of foreign construction workers - the black Ghanaian Ebo also work on the power plant site . They keep their homosexual relationship a secret in order to spare Ebo professional and social disadvantages.

Meanwhile, Andri's daughter Þórhildur and Finnur's son Aron, who are young lovers, secretly sleep in Finnur's house, which is sealed by the police. There Aron happens to find a bag full of money. In it, Þórhildur discovers a cell phone with an SMS conversation that she continues out of curiosity and the answer is asked whether "you" shouldn't have been dead long ago. A little later the police find the bag with the money - around 80,000 euros -, a map of Gisli's property, which is located in a geothermally active area, and an empty property purchase agreement. The police interrogate Þórhildur and Aron. In doing so, Þórhildur does not tell her father and his colleagues that the cell phone was found. Using this, she continues the SMS conversation and allows herself to be invited to a meeting with the stranger, who only observes her and thereby learns her identity.

On the occasion of Gisli's funeral, Halla visits her homeland and her family for the first time in 18 years. It becomes clear that there are some secrets and long-unexplained problems in the family. Halla's sister Elín observed Halla and Gisli doing something important during their childhood. At the funeral service, Víkingur made serious accusations against his mother Steinunn, Halla and the whole mourning society, such as a lack of interest in him in the past. Afterwards, he drives to the power plant, drunk, to meet Ebo. Ebo's brother-in-law and other work colleagues find out about the homosexual relationship. When Ebo is pursued by the anti-gay Polish construction worker Pawel, Vikingur goes back to the power station and is found covered in blood near Pavel's body during a power failure. The police then arrest him as the alleged murderer of Pavel and Finnur, while Vikingur denies having committed the murders. The police start to doubt Vikingur's guilt when they discover that it is impossible for him to have caused the blackout himself.

Meanwhile, Ketill draws the police's attention to dead birds that he has found by the sea. For their death as well as for the poisoning of Skúli he blames poisonous wastewater from the power station. After countless dead fish have been discovered on the coast, the city's water supply is cut off. This led to further protests against the power plant among the population. Jamal, the representative of American Aluminum , to Halla's disappointment, withdraws from the planned contract for the time being because he has concerns about the dire and strange events in the village.

After Finnur's funeral, David, the head of the power plant, gives Elín 500,000 kronor in cash and is watched by Andri. Since the wad of money is tied together with a ribbon, which, like the noose around the neck of Finnur's corpse , was tied with a figure of eight , Andri investigates David on the assumption that he is a murderer. Andri and Hinrika confront David in a personal conversation at the power plant, but David brings up a credible alibi for the time of Finnur's murder. Meanwhile, Þórhildur has brought himself to inform Aron and subsequently also the police about the cell phone found in his pocket. Ásgeir takes it and agrees to meet the stranger in the SMS conversation at short notice. Since he cannot reach Andri because of his conversation at the power plant, he takes the appointment alone. At the meeting point, a masked person steals his cell phone, lures him into an ambush, stabs him and drives him away by car. Andri and his colleagues only now notice Ásgeir's disappearance and pursue the car, which they find burning after a short drive with Ásgeir's corpse.

Vikingur is no longer a suspect and is released from prison. Meanwhile, Ketill discovers numerous illegally disposed of barrels with toxic waste in a river-traversed cave in the coastal mountains, which apparently pollutes the water. Assuming that there is a connection between this find and the murders, the police are investigating the head of waste disposal at the power plant, Stéfan, but they cannot find him. The suspicion of murder against Stéfan is corroborated by the knowledge that Stéfan was also at Gisli's funeral service and made a comment to Þórhildur about her dress via SMS, which she passed on to Andri. While Andris sister Laufey drives Þórhildur and Aron to Reykjavík by car, Stéfan kidnaps Þórhildur in the hope of getting the money out of his pocket.

The police are investigating Stéfan's, Vikingur and Elin's private sphere and learn from the woman Jórunn, who raised Stéfan, that she is not his birth mother at all, but that Stéfan was born by Halla. Secretly observed by Elín and in the presence of Gisli, Halla was raped several times at a young age by her father, who fathered Stéfan. Gisli therefore slew his father and, with Halla's help, threw his corpse before the pigs to eat before Halla, now pregnant, fled to Reykjavík at the age of 16 and gave the newborn to Jórunn for upbringing.

The police corner Stéfan on a mountain and learn more details from him. For example, he wanted to save money when disposing of the power station waste and, with Finnur's knowledge, had a number of foreign workers, including Ebo, dispose of the barrels in the cave instead of shipping them to Europe. In the dispute, also about the use of the money, Stéfan learned first from Gisli and then from Finnur that Jórunn was probably not his mother. Out of bitterness and because Finnur wanted to use the money to buy Gisli's property, Stéfan murdered him. Gisli, again feeling abandoned by Halla, turned to Halla for help, but she refused; therefore he carried out the arson attack on them. Bitter about feeling like a bastard , Stéfan finally commits suicide shortly after learning that the police have found the injured Þórhildur.

Cast and voice actor

actor Role name German Voice actor role
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Andri Ólafsson Matti Klemm Detective superintendent based in Reykjavík , father of Þórhildur
Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir Hinrika Kristjánsdóttir Anne Helm Police chief of Seyðisfjörður , wife of Bárður
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson Ásgeir Þórarinsson Frank Röth police officer
Baltasar Breki Samper Hjörtur Stefánsson Henning Nöhren Employees in the power plant
Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir Agnes Victoria Storm Andri's ex-wife
Elva María Birgisdóttir Þórhildur Sophie Lechtenbrink Daughter of Andri and Agnes
Stormur JK Baltasarsson Aron Sebastian Fitzner Nephew of Gísli and Vikingur, son of Finnur and Elín
Aron Már Ólafsson Víkingur Amadeus Strobl Son of Gísli and Steinunn, worker in the power station
Jóhanna Vigdís Arnardóttir Hafdís Magnúsdóttir Heike Schroetter Mayoress of Seyðisfjörður
Kingsford Siayor Ebo Kaze Uzumaki Construction workers in the power plant, Ghanaians
Hinrik Ólafsson Peter Lontzek Icelandic Prime Minister
Sólveig Arnarsdóttir Halla Thórisdóttir Mareile Moeller Icelandic Minister of Industry, sister of Gísli and Elín
Þorgeir Tryggvason Gísli Thórisson Sheep farmer, brother of Halla and Elín
Vignir Rafn Valþórsson Torfi Dennis Sandmann Brother of Skúli, son of Ketill
Sigurbjartur Sturla Atlason Skúli Daniel Gardener Brother of Torfi, son of Ketill
Guðjón Davíð Karlsson Finnur Brother-in-law of Gísli and Halla, father of Aron
Gudjón Pedersen Bárður Frank Kirschgens Husband of Hinrika
Steinn Ármann Magnússon Ketill Reinhard Scheunemann Father of Skúli and Torfi
Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir Elín Sonja Sabine Reichelt Sister of Gísli and Halla, mother of Aron
Katla Margrét Thorgeirsdóttir Laufey Sabine Jaeger Sister of Andri, aunt of Þórhildur
Elva Ósk Ólafsdóttir Steinunn Víkingur's mother, Gisli's ex-wife
Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson Stefan Marc Bluhm Head of waste disposal in the power plant, colleague from Vikingur

Episode list

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

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Trapped II - Gefangen in Iceland" in ZDF and ZDFmediathek , press release from October 16, 2019, from ZDF Press and Information, accessed on February 15, 2020
  2. ↑ Trapped - Trapped in Iceland. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ cf. End credits of the episodes of the ZDF version
  4. ↑ Original version of the second season , in: fernsehserien.de , accessed on Feb. 2, 2020
  5. ↑ ZDF version of the second season , in: fernsehserien.de , accessed on Feb. 2, 2020