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Streaming tips: Lupine, Charité, Detectorists, This Train I Ride

2021-01-09T11:55:45.129Z


The Netflix series »Lupine« portrays Omar Sy as a French gentleman crook, the third »Charité« season tells of the building of the wall, »Detectorists« celebrates the common people and »This Train I Ride« celebrates modern tramps.


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Omar Sy plays the French master thief »Lupine«

Photo: Netflix

“Lupine,” Netflix

Time budget:

five episodes of 45 minutes each


for fans of:

»Sherlock«, »Pretty Best Friends«

Arsène Lupine is as well known in France as Sherlock Holmes - and also closely associated with him: Arthur Conan Doyle's very British detective was a role model for the very French master thief, who the author Maurice Leblanc invented and had in over twenty novels from 1905.

Lupine is an elegant, rich snob, devoted to the good life, distinguished, always well dressed.

And as a criminal undetected and in countless disguises on the go to steal works of art or sometimes political secrets.

Now, with the Benedict Cumberbatch series »Sherlock«, Holmes has his post-modern series sandblasting cleaning behind him, so it was only a matter of time before Lupine's turn had to come.

The current Netflix version is now about the thief Assane Diop, who takes the gentleman crook as a model and does not bake small rolls in the opening sequence: He wants to break into the Louvre and steal a pearl necklace that Marie Antoinette already wore.

The tricks that Diop uses for this (narcotics in cleaning agent bottles) shouldn't tear viewers out of their chairs, who have looked over the shoulder of other film master thieves and vault crackers at work over the years.

The series by »Killing Eve« maker George Kay wants to score more as a large-scale crime puzzle, because Diop / Lupine solves the mystery of his father's death over the course of all episodes.

And because the character is played by the black French superstar Omar Sy, it's always about blatant and open racism.

However, and this is what “Lupine” has in common with Sys huge film success “Pretty Best Friends”, the claim to unmasking must never stand in the way of the entertainment fury of the production.

Anyone who found this uncomfortably inadequate and questionable dramaturgically in the case of the film will not be able to change their mind with "Lupine" thanks to Sys's talent for an unquestionably heartwarming grin.

Given the success of "Pretty Best Friends", that should be the minority.

I count myself among them.

Oliver Kaever

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Nina Kunzendorf as a pediatrician Dr.

Rapoport in the third season of »Charité«

Photo: Stanislav Honzik / ARD

»Charité«, Season 3, ARD Mediathek

Time budget:

six episodes of 45 minutes each


for fans of:

»Ballon«, »Germany '83«

The construction of the Berlin Wall, which began on August 13, 1961, was urgently required from a medical point of view.

This is a surprising finding that the viewers of the third season of »Charité« have to face.

The third season of the hospital series tells of the Cold War era and the building of the Wall.

The young, talented actress Nina Gummich plays a doctor who started working as an internist in the proudest hospital in the GDR in the summer of 1961.

The heroine experiences how fewer doctors and nurses are on duty every day - the medical staff flee to the West like many other citizens of the GDR.

The new "Charité" series cleverly and only sometimes too didactically describes how the German-German division divided families and became a symbol of creepy injustice.

But she also tells the reasons for which some people would prefer to voluntarily stay in the Communist East instead of moving to the West.

In addition to Gummich, Nina Kunzendorf in the role of pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport (1912 to 2017), who returned to Germany from the USA, is outstanding and extremely precise even in melodramatic moments.

In a central scene, Rapoport tries to convince young, doubtful parents of the value of a vaccination that could help against a dangerous virus.

In the case of the "Charité" season, which is really worthwhile, it is about a vaccine against polio developed in the Soviet Union.

(From January 12th at 8:15 p.m. also in double episodes in the linear ARD program)

Wolfgang Höbel

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A memorial for the "little people": Toby Jones (left) in "Detectorists"

Photo: Arte

»Detectorists«, ARD media library

Time budget:

30 minutes per episode


for fans of:

"The Office", "Waiting for the bus"

Series television can hardly be shrunk any smaller: two friends, a bizarre hobby, six to a maximum of seven half-hour episodes per season.

»Detectorists« follows the over-40s buddies Lance (Toby Jones) and Andy (Mackenzie Crook) as they use their metal detectors to explore the surroundings of their small hometown in Essex in the south of England.

Much does not happen in the BBC series and some things - for example finding treasure - also not at all, although it is the goal of every probe user.

But because the series is so close to its characters, it doesn't even need the big twists.

Because when a new member joins the Probe Club (and a bright student at that!), It feels like a big event thanks to the detailed direction by lead actor Crook, who also wrote all the books.

Quite incidentally, a »Detectorist« also brings the charms of probing close to you: After just a few episodes, you can hardly imagine a nicer pastime than strolling through nature with a friend (and a metal detector).

Will you find a treasure here?

It doesn't really matter, after all, it's the little things that count in life.

And the small series.

Hannah Pilarczyk

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Karen is 20 and travels as a stowaway through the USA on a freight train.

To be seen in the documentary "This Train I Ride"

Photo: Arno Bitschy / Arte

“This Train I Ride,” Arte

Time budget:

76 minutes


for fans of:

"Sullivan's Travels", "Life Stinks"

“I am only now realizing how confident I actually am.

I don't think many people could live like me. «The young woman who says this lives as a modern hobo, so she travels as a stowaway on surprisingly long freight trains through the film landscape of the USA, and earns an extremely narrow one with odd jobs Get by.

The Finnish documentary film director Arno Bitschy accompanied her and other protagonists with the camera and captured a poetry of dirt, steel, freedom and spiritual search.

However, he does not succumb to the danger of romanticizing poverty, only the music by Nick Cave colleague Warren Ellis suggests a stylistic exaggeration that is alien to the pictures.

Bitschy shows the beauty and pain of a life literally on the move.

If you like, you can delve even deeper into subcultures at Arte, the »Lucarne« collection brings together nine other documentaries on the search for freedom and meaning.

Oliver Kaever

And the current »crime scene« can be found here.

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Source: spiegel

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