How did this sneak by? It's a combo escapist spy story, engrossing soap opera, and historically accurate Cold War flashback to the time of Duran Duran and Blondie, produced in Germany with a great cast of young and/or unfamiliar actors. Sure, the expected unlikelihoods are there, but so is an essential authenticity. Great fun! Deutschland 83 DVD (Season 1) Kino Lorber 2015 / Color / 1:78 enhanced widescreen / 336 min. / Street Date September 29, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sonja Gerhardt, Ulrich Noethen, Ludwig Trepte, Sylvester Groth, Alexander Beyer, Nikola Kastner, Errol Trotman Harewood, Godehard Giese. Cinematography Philipp Haberlandt, Frank Küpper Music Reinhold Heil Written by Anna Winger Produced by Joerg Winger, Nico Hoffman, Henriette Lippold Small>Directed by Edward Berger, Samira Radsi
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
This is something extraordinary, an exciting TV serial about the misadventures of an East German spy during the Cold War's '80s high point,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
This is something extraordinary, an exciting TV serial about the misadventures of an East German spy during the Cold War's '80s high point,...
- 9/15/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Deutschland 83, Season 1, Episode 4, “Northern Wedding”
Written by Andrea Willson and Anna Winger
Directed by Edward Berger
Airs Wednesdays at 11pm (Et) on SundanceTV
Things just got serious on Deutschland 83. Deadly serious. If Martin—or viewers—had any doubts as to the stakes involved in his accidental spy career, “Northern Wedding” dispels them with taut, gutting efficiency. As the series hits the mid-point of its 8-episode run, nearly every relationship on the show is brought to a head, and the fallout leaves literal and emotional casualties everywhere. Unfortunately, most of them are innocent bystanders.
The tension begins immediately, as the bug Martin planted under Linda’s expensive new antique desk in last week’s “Atlantic Lion” is discovered by a maid. Throughout the series, Martin’s inexperience has led him to make error after error from which he has barely escaped. It’s ironic that one of his more...
Written by Andrea Willson and Anna Winger
Directed by Edward Berger
Airs Wednesdays at 11pm (Et) on SundanceTV
Things just got serious on Deutschland 83. Deadly serious. If Martin—or viewers—had any doubts as to the stakes involved in his accidental spy career, “Northern Wedding” dispels them with taut, gutting efficiency. As the series hits the mid-point of its 8-episode run, nearly every relationship on the show is brought to a head, and the fallout leaves literal and emotional casualties everywhere. Unfortunately, most of them are innocent bystanders.
The tension begins immediately, as the bug Martin planted under Linda’s expensive new antique desk in last week’s “Atlantic Lion” is discovered by a maid. Throughout the series, Martin’s inexperience has led him to make error after error from which he has barely escaped. It’s ironic that one of his more...
- 7/10/2015
- by A.R. Wilson
- SoundOnSight
Deutschland 83, Season 1, Episode 3, “Atlantic Lion”
Written by Anna Winger
Directed by Edward Berger
Airs Wednesdays at 11pm (Et) and SundanceTV
Throughout its first two episodes, Deutschland 83 introduced its characters, plots, and politics with such blithe adventure and fun that it was easy to miss that all the pieces were being placed on the chess board. But “Atlantic Lion” pulls back to reveal the board and starts to slowly circle the pieces around each other, letting the show’s interweaving character dramas finally begin to percolate and providing a glimpse of where this may all be headed.
Fresh off of Martin’s successful pilfering of a Nato official’s floppy disc in “Brave Guy,” he is sent off with General Edel to a Nato conference in Brussels. The dynamic between Edel and Martin really works. Edel faces tremendous job stress, has a strained marriage, and feels his children, both of whom have pacifist tendencies,...
Written by Anna Winger
Directed by Edward Berger
Airs Wednesdays at 11pm (Et) and SundanceTV
Throughout its first two episodes, Deutschland 83 introduced its characters, plots, and politics with such blithe adventure and fun that it was easy to miss that all the pieces were being placed on the chess board. But “Atlantic Lion” pulls back to reveal the board and starts to slowly circle the pieces around each other, letting the show’s interweaving character dramas finally begin to percolate and providing a glimpse of where this may all be headed.
Fresh off of Martin’s successful pilfering of a Nato official’s floppy disc in “Brave Guy,” he is sent off with General Edel to a Nato conference in Brussels. The dynamic between Edel and Martin really works. Edel faces tremendous job stress, has a strained marriage, and feels his children, both of whom have pacifist tendencies,...
- 7/3/2015
- by A.R. Wilson
- SoundOnSight
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