You are wanted

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Television series
Original title You are wanted
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2017-2018
Production
company		 Pantaleon Films GmbH,
Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH,
Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH
length 44-48 minutes
Episodes 12 in 2 seasons
genre thriller
Director Matthias Schweighöfer ,
Bernhard Jasper
idea Hanno Hackfort,
Bob Konrad,
Richard Kropf
production Dan Maag ,
Matthias Schweighöfer ,
Marco Beckmann ,
Willi Geike
music Josef Bach,
Arne Schumann
Initial release March 17, 2017 on Amazon Video
occupation

You Are Wanted (English for "you'll searched") is a German thriller - TV series directed by and starring Matthias Schweighofer and the first German house production of the streaming provider Amazon Video . The entire first season was released on March 17, 2017. The focus of the series is the hotel manager and family man Lukas Franke, who one day is hacked by an unknown person, causing his life to spiral out of control.

In November 2018, it was announced that the series had been discontinued after two seasons.

action

The personal data of the hotel manager Lukas Franke are hacked. Someone changes their digital identity and rewrites their life story. He is suspected of being a member of a terrorist group. Eventually even his son is threatened. Together with Lena Arandt, who is also a victim of the hackers, he tries to track down the perpetrators.

In the end it turns out that the perpetrator is the boss of Lukas' wife, Marc Wessling. He tries to open a program whose password he needs. As it turns out, this password is the fingerprint of Leon, Lukas' son. Because of this situation, a hostage-taking takes place, which ends in the headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service.

Episode list

season 1

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		Original title First publication D
1 1 blackout 17th March 2017
After a total power failure in Berlin, Lukas Franke is the victim of a hacker attack. Unordered electronics are delivered to him, secret video recordings of his son Leon and countless pages of the terrorist group "Antipode" appear on his laptop, and he is added to their chat group via smartphone. His brother Thomas, with whom he had no contact for several years, referred Lukas, who was looking for advice, to the hacktivist Dalton. Lukas suspects a man who introduced himself to him as Jens Kaufmann during the power failure. But he learns that the real Jens Kaufmann committed suicide four weeks ago. Before he called in the police, they had already searched his apartment, as he is suspected of being the cause of the power failure and a terrorist due to his online activities.
2 2 X-ray 17th March 2017
Lukas is forced to transport a package to Frankfurt that was given to his son by the supposed Jens Kaufmann in a careless moment at a busy train station. There he hands it over to Lena Arandt, who is also being blackmailed. On the return flight he is prevented by the police because of traces of explosives on his hands. His wife Hanna, who is designing a new video game for her new client Marc Wessling, begins to doubt her husband, because on the one hand she unexpectedly receives a drug for psychosis prescribed for her husband in the pharmacy and on the other hand Julia reveals herself to her as Lukas' liaison. Julia was also forced to make this revelation.
3 3 Trust 17th March 2017
Lukas steals a video recording from a shop that shows the package being handed over to Leon. Using facial recognition software, Dalton uses this recording to find out that the supposed Jens Kaufmann is actually called Frank Jeryczek. When Lukas visits him, Frank explains his motive to him. He wants to show the world how hacking can be used to rewrite a person's entire life. Frank wants to clear everything up with a video message, but he is shot in front of Lukas' eyes. Hanna's doubts are further nourished because Lukas admits his one-night stand with Julia and she learns from his electronic medical record that he has been treated for a psychosis for years. The investigating policewoman Sandra Jansen suspects a leak in her department, as the press unwittingly reported about the manhunt against Lukas.
4th 4th Noob 17th March 2017
After Frank's death, Lena shows up at the scene with a gun. Shortly afterwards they both have to flee from the police, who they now suspect of murder. Lukas' fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. Dalton researches that Frank was in contact with a certain Slomo. Lukas finds him with Lena. It's Marc, Hanna's client. He wants an access code that the real Jens Kaufmann sent Lukas before his death. If he does not receive it within 72 hours, Lukas' family will die. The only clue about the code is the number 1.8 × 10 10 . Meanwhile, the evidence suggests that the police officer Siebert is the leak.
5 5 Roller blind 17th March 2017
Lukas realizes that the game Mill 1.8 × 10 10 game variants. This leads him back to the "Klaps mill", in which he once looked after Jens Kaufmann as a community service provider, and to the realization that the handprint of his son Leon is the access code. But he keeps this to himself. Lena reveals to Lukas that Marc threatened to kill her brother Rollo if she didn't spy on Lukas for him. When Rollo visits Lena in her hiding place, his foster mother notifies the police, who track down Lena and Lukas. Lena is shot while trying to escape and Lukas is caught and transferred to the BND . There he realizes that Marc is an agent of the BND. Siebert can prove his innocence by proving that Frank Jeryczek hacked the police.
6th 6th Burning Man 17th March 2017
After the hacked data is leaked to police officer Jansen via Dalton, she realizes Lukas' innocence and that Marc wants to cover up a hacker attack on the BND. She and Siebert go to Marc's apartment, where Siebert is seriously injured and Jansen is slightly injured by a bomb. Meanwhile, Marc helps Lukas, who has been immobilized in a psychiatric hospital, to escape so that he can get him the code. Marc also kidnaps Leon. Using the pretext of playing an agent, he puts an explosive belt on Leon. In the BND headquarters he wants to eliminate an NSA agent who is in his way. In the showdown, Lukas, Hanna and the police are able to stop Marc, who unconsciously that Hanna removed the explosive belt, blows himself up. Lukas does not tell the police that he found the code he was looking for. This is the access to the “Burning Man” program, through which every person on earth could be blackmailed. In the last scene, Lukas is about to start uploading the program to WikiLeaks .

season 2

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		Original title First publication D
7th 1 File Not Found 18th May 2018
8th 2 Crypto Angel 18th May 2018
9 3 virus 18th May 2018
10 4th Shift memory 18th May 2018
11 5 shut down 18th May 2018
12 6th reboot 18th May 2018

production

You Are Wanted is the world's first series to be produced in Ultra HD resolution (2160p) and High Dynamic Range and released on Ultra HD Blu-ray.

The team of writers Hanno Hackfort, Bob Konrad and Richard Kropf wrote the scripts for all episodes of the first season. Matthias Schweighöfer and Bernhard Jasper directed. Filming for the first season started in May 2016. The film was shot in Berlin , Brandenburg , Munich and New York City . Filming lasted until August 9, 2016.

Shooting for the second season began on September 14, 2017. The scripts for this season were written by Markus Hoffmann, Uwe Kossmann and Arndt Stüwe. Again Matthias Schweighöfer and Bernhard Jasper directed. The film was shot until January 15, 2018.

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main actor

actor Role name Main role
(episodes) 		Main role
(seasons)
Matthias Schweighofer Lukas Franke 1-12 1-2
Alexandra Maria Lara Hanna Franke 1-12 1-2
Franz Hagn Leon Franke 1-12 1-2
Karoline Herfurth Lena Arandt 1-5 1

supporting cast

actor Role name Supporting role
(episodes)
Catrin Striebeck Sandra Jansen 1-12
Jörg Pintsch Thomas Franke 1-10
Edin Hasanović Thorsten Siebert 1-6, 8-9, 11-12
Aleksandar Jovanovic Case / Jens Kaufmann 1, 4-10
Markus Gertken Lorenz 1-6, 8
Tom Beck Marc Wessling 1-6, 10
Lucie Aron Vero 1-5
Louis Hofmann Dalton 1, 3-6
Thomas Schmauser Frank Jeryzcek 1-4
Alexander Khuon Johnny 1, 3-5
Toni Garrn Katja 1-2
Katrin Bauerfeind Julia Gracht 2-3, 8, 10
Lorna Ishema Dilara Dogan 3-6
Benjamin Lutzke Roller blind 5
Luise Bähr Jennifer Kaminski 7-12
Michael Landes Admiral Bruce Gardner 7-12
Jessica Black Nelly Hallaska 7-11
Minh-Khai Phan-Thi Vu Mai-Ly 7, 9-12
Long Dang Ngoc Ngo 7, 9-12
Alexander Radszun Rolf Wankura 7, 9-12
Bastian von Bömches Manuel Borchert 7-8, 10, 12
Ken Duong Hoang 7, 9-10
Hannah Hoekstra Angel / Frida Bosman 8, 10-12
John Keogh John Sullivan 9-12

reception

Reviews

Adam Soboczynski von der Zeit criticizes the “somewhat thickly applied family sentimentality”, but the viewer still wants to “see the third and fourth episodes”, which is “rare enough with the current flood of series”.

Axel Schmitt from serienjunkies.de gave the first episode 2 out of 5 stars. The characters would correspond to “every common television cliché”, every “dramaturgical set piece” of the episode is known “from other formats” and the dialogue work is “simply a shame for others”. German is also part of the series "only the penetrant product placement ". Ultimately, the format is "a product like Krombacher, Mercedes and Nutella - but not a good series."

TV feature film finds "even if the rapid production is sometimes reflected in small logic holes and a certain set-like nature", the series is "overall very exciting", which is "the most important quality for a thriller plot".

Awards and nominations

publication

Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Home theater releases

Literary adaptation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No third season: Schweighöfer's “You are Wanted” is buried , accessed on November 12, 2018
  2. ↑ Amazon publishes first series on 4K Blu-ray. 4K Movies, June 14, 2017, accessed June 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Start of shooting for You Are Wanted - the first German Amazon Originals series by and with Matthias Schweighöfer, alongside Alexandra Maria Lara, Karoline Herfurth, Tom Beck and Toni Garrn. In: current news . Amazon , May 26, 2016, accessed September 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ You Are Wanted • Season 2 with Matthias Schweighöfer. In: Listen . September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .
  5. ^ Official Facebook post of the production company at the end of the shoot. Pantaleon Films GmbH, August 9, 2016, accessed on September 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Start of shooting for the second season of the Amazon original record series You Are Wanted: Matthias Schweighöfer brings Jessica Schwarz on board. In: current news . Amazon , September 7, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  7. ↑ You Are Wanted. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Adam Soboczynski: Farewell to the idiot. In: Zeit Online . March 16, 2017. Retrieved March 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Axel Schmitt: Review You are Wanted 1x01: Episode 1. In: Serienjunkies.de . March 17, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 5/2017, page 192
  11. ↑ GTA18 Nominees (2017). In: Golden Trailer Awards. Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English).
  12. ^ Kurier: ROMY special prices: Schweighöfer, "Babylon", Ninjas & Universum . Article dated March 29, 2018, accessed March 29, 2018.
  13. ↑ You Are Wanted: Broadcast Dates. In: Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  14. ^ Arno Strobel : You Are Wanted . 1st edition. Edition M, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-1-4778-2416-0 .