East German spies in Africa, the arms trade, love Affairs, and at home in the GDR collapses, the economy. The German series “86” focuses on international locations and starts, accordingly, at Amazon.
Radiant sun instead of miefigem gray in East Berlin, South Africa instead of East Germany: “Germany 86” begins, as you should have expected it after the last part of the “Germany 83” for sure. The locations of the series have changed radically, initially at least. South Africa, Angola and Libya, the exotic locations are, only then it goes to Europe and Germany.
There, Germany had played “83”, an eight-part series, which was produced by the private television broadcasters RTL in 2015 and into the evening program and the circles in the tray, at least – for the world-wide attention was taken care of. In “Germany 83” it was the East German intelligence and the relationship between West and East Germany in times of the Cold war, of love and seduction, politics and Private.
In the centre of the action: the actor Jonas Nay and Maria Schrader
The series was launched in the USA, only later in RTL. And abroad she was also a success: “Germany 83” was sold in over 100 countries. In Germany, the success was limited. The RTL viewers were rates weak. Internationally, however, Germany was seen “83” a lot and also excellent. 2016, there was an “International Emmy Award”. Germany, it was said suddenly, high to compete on the internationally popular series market.
Amazon took over – RTL withdrew
Somehow, it was clear that there should be a sequel – only where? RTL didn’t want to in view of the weak rates. The U.S. giant Amazon jumped in and funded the continuation of “86”, which was produced by the German company “UFA Fiction.” And it was clear, then, that the series should get a international paint.
“86” begins first in South Africa. The protagonists are familiar, for the most part already from the previous season. Lenora smoke (Maria Schrader) is a management officer of the HVA (main intelligence Directorate, foreign intelligence service of the GDR), and in southern Africa the mission of the East Berlin foreign exchange, to acquire, through shady arms deals.
The new German Star Florence Kasumba (m.) adds to the “86”-Cast
To ruin at home in the GDR, it is the year 1986, the economy. The Soviet Union under Gorbachev is prepared to pump money into the ailing economy of the Eastern European States. Gorbachev has other goals of Glasnost and Perestroika, the dominant buzzwords.
So most of the money to save the GDR. In the process, Lenora smoke and their peers is each and every means and all of the humanistic and socialist Ideals are thrown overboard. So, too, Sergeant Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay), nephew of Lenora and Central figure of the first season, comes back into the game. Lenora smoke brings the young man from the socialist brother state of Angola to South Africa. Martin to assist you in your operations.
Action-Packed series with a political claim
What Action and arms trafficking, espionage and love banter against an African backdrop is as follows – the Whole is told against the Background of the apartheid system. “The Association between the apartheid system and the split of Germany is somewhat baseless to wear inner-German conflicts in the world, but it is a enjoyable more relaxed whenever handling the substance, to deny him a fee,” wrote the reviewer for the daily newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” for the series beginning on Amazon.
Visually appealing in the scene, Jonas Nay set: in “86”
Striking at all, that the first German reactions to the sequel were more positive than the judgments about “Germany 83”. The previous series was discussed in the beginning, but was criticized more and more that there is a lack of the characters of their psychological depth, and the German-German history would arg be a lump sum, told. Not to be wrong.
“Picture strong series with a fresh coat of paint”
The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” praised, though not exuberant, but came to the following verdict: “Like the plot (…) between historical, nostalgic, adventurous, bombastic and absurd fluctuate, like tend to the dialogues once in a while to Explain, and the characters are not completely believable, is still a tempo, entertaining, visually powerful series with a fresh coat of paint, good situation Comedy and a certain Punk attitude in terms of the Africa action arose.”
And the daily newspaper “The world” means even, “86” earn now, in fact, the success that had the first season: “The narrative stance is seriously roughened, only gently of irony – one might almost say, all RTL-like you lost.”
Charismatic Star: Jonas Nay at the Germany Premiere in Berlin
This is a good sign for the international success of “86”, which was re-set by authors/producers, couple of Anna and Joerg Winger, a leader in the scene. In the United States, as Germany launches “86” this time a week later, at “Sundance TV” on 25. October. “Sundance TV” had already aired the previous season of “Germany 83” – at the time, with English subtitles, is an absolute exception in the highly competitive US TV market.
That “was able to assert Germany, 83”, at least in the case of a smaller audience, was a big Surprise. The opportunity for “86” are now so well – and a third season (“Germany 89”), which represents the fall of the Berlin wall to the center of the narrative plot, is already in the works.
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