White Collar (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | White collar |
| Original title | White collar |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2009-2014 |
| length | 42 minutes |
| Episodes | 81 in 6 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Crime , dramedy |
| idea | Jeff Eastin |
| production | Jeff Eastin |
| music | Jon Honest |
| First broadcast | October 23, 2009 (USA) on USA Network |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 13, 2011 on RTL |
| occupation | |
White Collar is an American crime series that revolves around Special Agent Peter Burke and master thief and art forger Neal Caffrey, who have to work together. It ran in the US from October 23, 2009 to December 18, 2014 on the cable station USA Network and comprises six seasons with a total of 81 episodes. The series was produced by Jeff Eastin .
The broadcasters ATV and 3+ as well as Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland have secured the series for the German-speaking countries . The German premiere on RTL was on September 13, 2011. The title White Collar (white collar) alludes to the distinction in English usage between blue collar and white collar employees, as well as the English term for white collar crime (white -collar crime), whose department Agent Burke is part of the FBI.
action
The art and diamond thief and forger Neal Caffrey is arrested by Special Agent Peter Burke. The circumstances of the arrest are not discussed in the first season. After a successful escape attempt by Neal, Peter finds him and takes him back to prison without Neal resisting. Because he would have to stay in prison for a long time because of his involvement in various art thefts, his girlfriend Kate Moreau leaves him. Thereupon Neal turns to Peter and offers him to help the FBI with the investigation of thefts - on the condition that he, equipped with a GPS- ankle cuff, can move relatively freely in New York. Reluctantly, Peter accepts Neal's offer and allows him three kilometers to run around his home, a shabby hotel. In the following, Neal meets the rich widow June, who invites him to live in her villa in the future. Since this is within a three-kilometer radius, he accepts the offer.
season 1
The first season is predominantly dominated by various intrigues within the FBI; one of the most important storylines is Neal's search for his girlfriend Kate. Forced by unknown backers, Kate tries to track down Neal's secret art theft. It's not exactly clear who these backers are - just that they are connected to the FBI. The individual episodes deal with different criminal cases from art to diamond theft, with Neal's insider knowledge often leading to or at least contributing to the solution of the cases. To Peter's surprise, Neal acts consistently within the legal framework. Neal's old accomplice Mozzie, who shows signs of paranoia and a pronounced dislike of the police, tries to persuade Neal to flee, but then also supports him in his legal activities for the FBI.
Another important role is played by Peter's wife Elizabeth, who is initially skeptical of Neal, but then repeatedly defends him against her husband. As the season progresses, it emerges that Kate is being held captive by Special Agent Garrett Fowler. In exchange, he wants a music box, which Neal eventually steals with the help of Alex Hunter, who is also an international art thief. At the end of the first season, Neal tries to go into hiding with Kate, but the getaway plane explodes with Kate.
season 2
The second season begins some time after the explosion. Neal is in custody as he is held responsible for the airplane explosion and the death of Kate. Peter again offers Neal the agreement, which Neal accepts. Neal has to wear the shackles again and helps Peter solve cases for the FBI. At the same time, Mozzie finds out that Fowler does not own the music box, but that Peter has it. Mozzie, Neal, Peter and Diana (FBI agent on Burke's team) try to solve the riddle of the music box and find out that the music box has a secret compartment. In this compartment there is an alternative tone comb that plays a different melody. They suspect a secret code behind the melody and ask Mozzie for help to crack it. Neal and Peter learn that the attack on Kate was not Garrett Fowler, but Vincent Adler. He trained Neal and Kate also worked for him as a personal assistant. When Mozzie cracks the code with the help of a friend, he is shot by an eagle's henchman; Mozzie survived.
The code contains a blueprint for a fractal antenna with the frequency for an emergency signal from a submarine. When the henchman was arrested, the FBI discovered a box of Nazi porcelain. The trail leads to Argentina. Adler had a property there and was looking for the Nazi and radio operator Gerhard Wagner, who came to the United States after the Second World War . After breaking out of prison, he had to change his identity to Michael Hunter. Based on the new name, Mozzie and Neal find out that Gerhard Wagner aka Michael Hunter is the grandfather of Alex Hunter. While searching for Alex, Peter and Neal are kidnapped by Adler. Adler takes them to a warehouse where Alex and the submarine are located. Neal is supposed to break into the submarine, which is secured with an explosive device, and finds gold and valuable Nazi paintings there. When Adler's men want to kill Neal, Peter and Alex, the FBI steps in and saves them. The FBI is looking for the warehouse where the treasure is located. When Neal goes looking for it alone, he finds the right one and is surprised by Adler. The warehouse explodes and the FBI is on its way there.
Adler wants to shoot Neal, but Peter is faster and saves Neal by shooting Adler. When Peter sees a piece of a painting on the floor that he saw at Neal's house, he believes that Neal stole the treasure before the explosion. Neal denies this. When Neal comes home, he finds a key to a warehouse and a note. Neal takes a look at the warehouse and finds the treasure there.
season 3
At the beginning of the third season, the relationship between Neal and Peter is still tense, as Peter is not sure whether he stole the treasure. Neal knows Mozzie is the culprit, but isn't sure whether to tell Peter. Still, the two have to work together to catch a thief. Sara Ellis, as the insurance investigator who testified against Neal, gets closer to Neal, and the two develop a romantic relationship over the course of the season. Peter's wife, Elizabeth, is kidnapped by Matthew Keller, an old rival of Neal. In the season finale, Agent Kramer tries to sabotage Neal when he tries to iron out an old mistake from his past. Peter warns Neal that Kramer only wants him to work for himself and therefore tries to prevent any cooperation with the FBI. In the last scene you see Neal removing his ankle cuffs and fleeing with Mozzie.
Season 4
Neal is hiding with Mozzie in the Cape Verde Islands , where the FBI finds him. Peter wants to help Neal and flies there too. He discovers that an island gang boss is actually one of the FBI's most wanted criminals. They manage to arrest him and thereby wash Neal's vest clean. But Peter is transferred to a sentence because he disregarded some orders from his superiors and from now on he has to catalog evidence. After Peter helps solve a case, he is transferred back. Ellen is killed but is able to give the name of a person Neal is looking for, Samuel Phelps, before she dies. Peter finds out that this man has long been dead and the man who poses as Sam is James Bennett, Neal's father. After the son of the late mobster Dennis Flynn, for whom James worked, is convicted of the murder of Ellen, he is killed on a prisoner transport. The transport was carried out on Senator Pratt's instructions, so that he is now the investigators' sights. A key Neal finds in Ellen's belongings leads her to a box in the Empire State Building , through which Neal finds out that his father committed the murder after all. When they get the box, James shoots the Senator with Peter's gun and escapes. Peter is arrested for murder.
Season 5
Neal gets a chance to get Peter out of jail. For this he uses the contacts of the criminal Curtis Hagen, for whom he is supposed to steal gold coins in return. Peter is released and promoted to chief of the fraud department. That's why Neal gets a new partner: David Siegel, who will be murdered very soon. However, Hagen had set a trap for Neal to steal the coins and filmed him so that he could blackmail him. He is supposed to destroy evidence so that Hagen will be acquitted in his upcoming renegotiation of his case. After Hagen is released from prison, he continues to blackmail Neal. So he forces him to steal a chapter of the Mosconi Code from the museum. To decipher this, they recruit the museum employee Rebecca, who is very familiar with Mosconi. You will find a reference to a church window that was made by Mosconi and in which a piece of special glass must be stuck that can make invisible ink in the codex visible.
Shortly before they succeed, Neal destroys the pages of the original code in order to force Hagen to release Rebecca - whom he had previously kidnapped - although Hagen has no idea that Mozzie had previously stored the important symbols in his head. But he himself is eliminated by a sniper after trying to pass on explosive information to Peter. While investigating this murder, Peter and Neal come across the fact that Rebecca is not who she claims to be. She is looking for the counterpart of the Hope Diamond , which she hoped to find through clues from the Mosconi Codex. Peter and Neal can prove that they killed Curtis Hagen because he wanted to betray them to the FBI. She is also charged with the murder of Agent Siegel, so she is arrested.
Peter will then be promoted further and will move to Washington, DC for some time . Since Peter owes this promotion to Neal's help, the latter asks him to recommend him for a pardon. Until then he wants to look for the diamond himself with Mozzie and with the help of the information from the Mosconi Codex. They succeed, but Rebecca also manages to escape from prison and get the diamond. With Peter's help, he can catch and arrest Rebecca. Peter, however, was unable to fulfill Neal's wish and so he renounces his promotion to the management floor and returns. However, Neal is disappointed and wants to flee when he is suddenly kidnapped.
Season 6
Neal was kidnapped by a man named Boothe who hopes to blackmail the Hope Diamond, which the FBI has confiscated and which he is supposed to get as an entrance exam for the club of the "Pink Panthers". However, Boothe can be caught and so Neal offers Peter to convict the Panthers, which in return should bring him his freedom. This time he is guaranteed by a legally binding contract with the FBI and so he infiltrates the Pink Panthers. There he surprisingly meets Matthew Keller, who knows him as an FBI employee, but does not reveal himself because he is trying to smash the Panthers for Interpol. Without further ado, the two of them work together and discover that the Pink Panthers are about to steal half a billion dollars in cash, which is being returned to America by European exchange offices.
The new boss of the Pink Panthers notices that he has a traitor in his ranks and that is why Keller is to be withdrawn from the case. Keller then kills his contact at Interpol, removes his implanted tracking chip and places it in the pocket of another Pink Panther member, who is then identified as a traitor and executed. Shortly after the Panthers raid, the FBI intervenes and arrests all members, including Keller and Neal. He fears that he will be betrayed by the police again and flees with Keller.
They meet with Mozzie, who managed to siphon about $ 30 million from the Panthers' money before they were arrested. But there is a dispute over the booty and in the exchange of fire, Neal is hit by Keller and, according to the hospital, died of his gunshot wound. Peter doesn't let Neal's death rest, however, and a year later he finds out that Neal was only faking his death so that he could finally live in freedom.
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbing was created by the dubbing company Scalamedia GmbH in Berlin. The German dialogue books were created by Christian Weygand (1st season) and Holger Twellmann (2nd season). Christian Weygand directed the dialogue.
Main cast
| role | actor | image | Main role (episode) |
Supporting role (episode) |
German dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neal Caffrey | Matt Bomer |
|
1.01–6.06 | Simon hunter | |
| Special Agent Peter Burke | Tim DeKay |
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1.01–6.06 | Thomas Nero Wolff | |
| Teddy Winters "Mozzie" | Willie Garson |
|
1.01–6.06 | Dietmar miracle | |
| Elizabeth "El" Burke | Tiffani Thiessen |
|
1.01–6.06 | Ranja Bonalana | |
| Special Agent Lauren Cruz | Natalie Morales |
|
1.06-1.14 | 1.02-1.04 | Natascha Geisler |
| Special Agent Diana Barrigan | Marsha Thomason |
|
2.01-6.06 | 1.01, 1.14 | Vera Teltz |
| Sara Ellis | Hilarie Burton |
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3.01-3.16 | 2.05-2.16, 4.04-4.16 | Solveig Duda |
| Special Agent Clinton Jones | Sharif Atkins |
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4.01-6.06 | 1.01-3.16 | Markus Pfeiffer |
Supporting cast
| role | actor | Supporting role (episode) |
German dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|---|
| June Ellington | Diahann Carroll | 1.01–6.06 | Monica Bielenstein |
| Kate Moreau | Alexandra Daddario | 1.01-1.14, 2.11 | Shandra Schadt |
| Special Agent Reese Hughes | James Rebhorn | 1.02-5.13 | Bodo Wolf |
| Rachel Turner aka Rebecca Lowe | Bridget Regan | 5.01-5.13, 6.01 | Magdalena Turba |
| Special Agent Garrett Fowler | Noah Emmerich | 1.07-1.14, 2.09 | Walter von Hauff |
| Alexandra "Alex" Hunter | Gloria Votsis | 1.11-1.14, 2.03, 2.09-2.16, 4.08 | Marie Bierstedt |
| Agent Kramer | Beau Bridges | 3.10, 3.14, 3.16 | Kaspar Eichel |
| Vincent Adler | Andrew McCarthy | 2.11, 2.16 | Erich Rauker |
Production and broadcast
| Season | Episodes | First broadcast on the USA USA Network |
First broadcast in Germany RTL (up to 2.06) / RTL Crime (from 2.07 to 4.16) Netflix (from 5.01) |
First broadcast in Austria ATV |
First broadcast in Switzerland 3+ |
| season 1 | 14th | October 23, 2009 to March 9, 2010 | September 13 to December 13, 2011 | June 21 to September 25, 2012 | October 21, 2011 to January 20, 2012 |
| season 2 | 16 | July 13, 2010 to March 8, 2011 | October 4, 2012 to May 30, 2013 | June 4 to November 26, 2013 | |
| season 3 | 16 | June 7, 2011 to February 28, 2012 | September 19, 2013 to January 16, 2014 | December 3, 2013 to April 1, 2014 | |
| Season 4 | 16 | July 10, 2012 to March 5, 2013 | May 30, 2014 to September 12, 2014 | September 26, 2015 to November 28, 2015 | |
| Season 5 | 13 | October 17, 2013 to January 30, 2014 | July 27, 2015 | ||
| Season 6 | 6th | November 6th to December 18th, 2014 | July 27, 2015 |
United States
The series was broadcast for the first time on October 23, 2009 by the US television station USA Network in the 2009/2010 season. 14 episodes were ordered for the first season. The premiere was seen by 5.4 million people, making it the second most successful premiere of a series for the pay-TV channel USA Network after Monk . Due to the success, a second season was ordered on December 18, 2009.
The second season started on July 13, 2010. After the first, 14-episode season had been broadcast in one piece, the second season was divided into two parts. USA Network broadcast the first episodes in the summer of the respective year, the remaining episodes in the spring of the following year. The same scheme was used for the third season, which aired between June 7, 2011 and February 28, 2012.
At the end of August 2011, a fourth season with 16 episodes was ordered, which began broadcasting on July 10, 2012. Again, the broadcaster extended the series in September 2012 by a fifth season with 16 episodes (later reduced to 13), which was shown from October 17, 2013. In March 2014, White Collar was renewed for a sixth and final season with six episodes.
Germany
The broadcast of the first season began on September 13, 2011 on RTL and ended on December 13, 2011. From October 11, 2012, RTL 'broadcast the first six episodes of the second season, but then stopped broadcasting on November 15, 2012 due to a lack of viewers from. This was continued from March 18, 2013 by the RTL Crime pay TV broadcaster, which also belongs to the RTL Group , and ended on May 30, 2013. The third season was broadcast by RTL Crime from September 19, 2013 to January 16, 2014, the fourth season from May 30, 2014. The fifth season was broadcast on RTL Nitro (NITRO) on free TV from December 27, 2019.
Austria
In Austria, the station ATV began broadcasting the first season on June 21, 2012 and ended on September 25, 2012. The second season of the series was broadcast from June 4 to November 26, 2013. The third season from December 3, 2013 to April 1, 2014. The broadcast of the fourth season started after more than a year on September 26, 2015 and ended on November 28, 2015.
Switzerland
The first season of the series aired on 3+ in Switzerland from October 21, 2011 and ended on January 20, 2012.
Publications on DVD
- United States
- Season 1 was released on July 13, 2010
- Season 2 was released on June 7, 2011
- Season 3 was released on June 5, 2012
- Season 4 was released on October 8, 2013
- Season 5 was released on November 4, 2014
- Great Britain
- Season 1 was released on July 26, 2010
- Season 2 was released on February 18, 2013
- Germany
- Season 1 was released on March 16, 2012
- Season 2 was released on April 12, 2013
Web links
- White Collar in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- USA Network Official Site
- White collar at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Junklewitz: ATV secures many new US series . Serienjunkies.de . April 28, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
- ↑ Manuel Weis: 3+ secures “Modern Family” . Oddsmeter.de . February 15, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
- ↑ USA Network extends White Collar, Royal Pains and Psych . Serial junkies. September 28, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: White Collar: RTL will include the series in September . Serial junkies . August 1, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
- ↑ White Collar. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: USA Network orders second season for White Collar . The Hollywood Reporter. December 18, 2009. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010. Retrieved on March 29, 2010.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: White Collar: USA Network orders 4th season . Serial junkies . August 26, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
- ↑ a b Adam Arndt: White Collar: Zeljko Ivanek and Rebecca Hazlewood in season 5 . In: serienjunkies.de . September 10, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: USA Picks Up Medical Drama Pilots' Rush '& Complications' To Series, Confirms' White Collar' Renewal . In: Deadline.com . March 21, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: White Collar: RTL changes the series Thursday, throws White Collar out . In: Serienjunkies.de . November 13, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: White Collar: Season 4 starts in May on RTL Crime . In: Serienjunkies.de . April 2, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.