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1899 is a multilingual German epic period mystery-science fiction streaming television series created by Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar. It premiered on Netflix on 17 November 2022.[1] It has received mostly positive critical reviews, with praise going towards the casting, directing, cinematography, and acting, though some criticized the slow pacing.

1899
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Genre	Period drama Mystery Supernatural horror Science fiction Epic
Created by	Jantje Friese Baran bo Odar
Written by	Jantje Friese Dario Madrona López Gallego Emma Ko Jerome Bucchan-Nelson Juliana Lima Dehne Emil Nygaard Albertsen
Directed by	Baran bo Odar
Starring	Emily Beecham Aneurin Barnard Andreas Pietschmann Miguel Bernardeau Maciej Musiał Anton Lesser Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen Rosalie Craig Clara Rosager Maria Erwolter Yann Gael Mathilde Ollivier José Pimentão Isabella Wei Gabby Wong Jonas Bloquet Fflyn Edwards Alexandre Willaume Martin Greis-Rosenthal
Opening theme	"White Rabbit"
Country of origin	Germany
Original languages	English Spanish French Polish German Danish Portuguese Cantonese Norwegian Swedish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producers	Jantje Friese Baran bo Odar
Production locations	Germany United Kingdom
Running time	50–62 minutes
Production company	Dark Ways
Distributor	Netflix
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17) – present (present)

Premise

Set in 1899, just at the turn of the new century, the series follows a group of European migrants travelling from London on a steamship named Kerberos to start new lives in New York City.

Cast and characters

Main

• Emily Beecham as Maura Henriette Franklin/Singleton, a neurologist and one of the first female doctors in the UK, traveling alone to America
• Aneurin Barnard as Daniel Solace, a mysterious man who boards the Kerberos
• Andreas Pietschmann as Eyk Larsen, the ship's weather-beaten captain
• Miguel Bernardeau as Ángel, a wealthy Spaniard traveling with Ramiro
• José Pimentão as Ramiro, a faux priest traveling with Ángel
• Isabella Wei as Ling Yi, a mysterious young woman from China, traveling with Yuk Je
• Gabby Wong as Yuk Je, a middle-aged woman from China traveling with Ling Yi
• Yann Gael [fr] as Jérôme, a French stowaway
• Mathilde Ollivier as Clémence, a young woman from the Paris elite, accompanied by her new husband Lucien
• Jonas Bloquet as Lucien, an upper class Parisian, and former Lieutenant of the French Foreign Legion, newly married to his wife Clémence
• Rosalie Craig as Virginia Wilson, a sociable, wealthy British woman
• Maciej Musiał as Olek, a Polish stoker on his way to New York
• Clara Rosager as Tove, a young pregnant Danish woman traveling to New York with her family
• Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen [de] as Krester, a young Danish man with a mysterious scar on his face
• Maria Erwolter as Iben, a religious Dane traveling with her husband Anker and children, who supposedly hears the voice of God
• Alexandre Willaume as Anker, a religious Dane going to New York with his wife Iben, his son Krester, and his daughters Tove and Ada
• Tino Mewes as Sebastian, the first mate on the Kerberos
• Isaak Dentler as Franz, the captain's right-hand man
• Fflyn Edwards as Elliot a.k.a. "the boy", a mysterious mute boy found under unusual circumstances, who becomes Maura's charge on board the Kerberos
• Anton Lesser as Henry Singleton, a British investor and Maura's father

Recurring

• Vida Sjørslev as Ada, Krester and Tove's younger sister
• Alexander Owen as Landon, a stoker and friend of Darrel
• Ben Ashenden as Darrel, a stoker and friend of Landon
• Richard Hope as Dr. Reginald Murray, a boorish British doctor
• Joshua Jaco Seelenbinder as Eugen, an officer on the Kerberos
• Niklas Maienschein as Wilhelm, a crewman on the Kerberos
• Jónas Alfreð Birkisson as Einar
• Heidi Toini as Bente

Guest

• Cloé Heinrich as Nina Larsen
• Alexandra Gottschlich as Sara Larsen
• Kaja Chan as Mei Mei
• Martin Greis as Villads

Episodes

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No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"The Ship"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
On October 19, 1899, the steamship Kerberos is sailing from England to New York City. Four months earlier, its sister ship Prometheus disappeared without a trace on the same route. Maura and many of the first-class passengers on Kerberos are in the dining room when third-class passenger Krester bursts in pleading for a doctor. Krester is thrown out by Franz, but Maura follows Krester down into third-class, where she resolves Tove's tangled umbilical cord. Lucien and Clémence struggle with intimacy. Maura has strange visions. She encounters Eyk, who warns her to follow the ship's rules. After receiving a message of only a set of coordinates from presumably Prometheus, Eyk changes course of the Kerberos to those coordinates, to the opposition of many passengers. Kerberos sights the Prometheus, which appears to be abandoned. Eyk boards Prometheus with Maura, Ramiro, Olek and Jérôme. Ángel takes an interest in Krester. A mysterious man boards Kerberos and moves into the room next to Maura's. On Prometheus, Eyk finds a strange hairband, and discover that the telegraph is destroyed. Maura follows a scarab beetle to a cabinet, opening it to find a boy, who hands her a black tetrahedron object.
2	"The Boy"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese & Dario Madrona López Gallego	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
Eyk receives a message from the shipping company reading "sink ship". Maura houses the boy, the only person discovered on Prometheus, in her room. She discovers a ring in his possession, and a symbol of an upside-down triangle with a horizontal line behind his left ear. The mysterious man introduces himself to Maura as Daniel. Ángel gives Krester a cigarette tin. Jérôme breaks into Lucien and Clémence's room and leaves a Legion of Honour medal. Eyk has hallucinations of his wife and daughters, who died in a house fire some years ago; one of his daughters wears the same hairband found on Prometheus. He wakes up to find a shaft has appeared under the bed in his room. Tove finds the cigarette tin and angrily returns it to Ángel; Ángel and Ramiro have an argument which led to them having sex. Jérôme is discovered to be a stowaway and subdued. Maura shows the boy a letter bearing the same triangle symbol which led her to board the ship, but he remains mute. Eyk decides to tow Prometheus back to Europe, to the displeasure of many passengers and crew. Eyk shows Maura a similar letter that led him to Kerberos, and he believes answers lie with Prometheus. Ada is found dead. Elsewhere, someone is monitoring the ship's occupants on screens.
3	"The Fog"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese & Emma Ko	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
Ada's cause of death is unable to be determined. After Kerberos runs into heavy fog, Eyk orders the ship to stop and wait until the fog clears. Eyk shows Maura the hairband and the shaft in his room. The two head back to Prometheus to find its logbook. Sebastian uncovers a panel and inputs a sequence made of triangles. While hiding from her mother after an argument about her training to be a geisha, Ling Yi has flashbacks of her sister's accidental death which led to her boarding Kerberos. Olek finds Ling Yi and comforts her. Disobeying Eyk's orders to keep Ada's death secret, Franz lets Tove retrieve her body. Krester gives Ángel a handjob. Daniel enters Maura's room and meets with the boy. On Prometheus, Eyk and Maura find another shaft bearing the triangle symbol, which is also the ship company's logo. More bodies are found on Kerberos. Eyk finds a document in Prometheus's furnaces which he hides from Maura. Ling Yi entertains Lucien, though he has a seizure after an interruption by Clémence earlier prevented him from taking medication. Franz arms the third-class passengers and urges them to launch a mutiny. Olek attempts to warn Eyk but is beaten up and thrown in the same jail as Jérôme. Ramiro warns Eyk, but both are arrested by mutineers led by Tove. Daniels uses a device resembling a sliding puzzle to teleport the Kerberos.
4	"The Fight"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese & Jerome Bucchan-Nelson	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
5	"The Calling"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese & Juliana Lima Dehne	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
6	"The Pyramid"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese & Emil Nygaard Albertsen	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
7	"The Storm"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
8	"The Key"	Baran bo Odar	Jantje Friese	17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)

Production

Development

On 13 November 2018, it was announced that Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar were developing the project for Netflix under their overall deal at the streaming service.[2] The series was confirmed to be moving forward two weeks later during a Netflix press conference showcasing European original programming.[3] By July 2020, bo Odar revealed via Instagram that Friese had completed writing the script for the pilot episode, titled "The Ship."[4] During an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Friese explained how the European migrant crisis and Brexit were influential to the series, saying:

The whole European angle was very important for us, not only story wise but also the way we were going to produce it. It really had to be a European collaboration, not just cast but also crew. We felt that with the past years of Europe being on the decline, we wanted to give a counterpoint to Brexit, and to nationalism rising in different countries, to go back to that idea of Europe and Europeans working and creating together. Being true to the cultures and the languages was really important, we never wanted to have characters from different countries but everyone speaks English. We wanted to explore this heart of Europe, where everyone comes from somewhere else and speaks a different language, and language defines so much of your culture and your behaviour.

As with Dark, Jantje Friese served as the head writer of the show. The staff writing team comprised writers of different nationalities including Emma Ko from Hong Kong and the UK, Coline Abert from France, Jerome Bucchan-Nelson from the UK, Juliana Lima Dehne from Brazil and the US, Joshua Long from the US, Darío Madrona from Spain, and Emil Nygaard Albertsen from Denmark. According to director Baran bo Odar, all scripts were first written in English, then the non-English sections were translated by the staff writers and/or translators. Odar had phonetic copies of the script on set, and language assistants were present during filming to ensure the accuracy of the non-English dialogue.[5]

Budget

The budget for the series was at least €60 million ($62.2 million) with €2 million coming from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,[6] €10 million coming from the German Motion Picture Fund,[7] and Netflix investing €48 million in the project. 1899 is the most expensive German television series of all time.[8]

Casting

On 16 December 2020, it was announced that Emily Beecham was cast in the lead role.[9] On 2 May 2021, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau, Maciej Musiał, Anton Lesser, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Rosalie Craig, Clara Rosager, Maria Erwolter, Yann Gael, Mathilde Ollivier, José Pimentão, Isabella Wei, Gabby Wong, Jonas Bloquet, Fflyn Edwards, and Alexandre Willaume were added to the cast, with each character speaking in the actor's native language.[10]

Filming

Pre-production for the series officially commenced on 24 November 2020, with a week-long lens test shoot taking place.[11][12] The series was initially scheduled to begin principal photography on 1 February 2021,[13] but was later pushed back by 3 months. Filming officially began on 3 May 2021 at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, the only designated UNESCO Creative City of Film in Germany.

The series was shot in a new virtual production stage called Volume, operated by bo Odar and Friese's sister company Dark Bay, at Studio Babelsberg.[14] Filming also took place in London, United Kingdom.[13] Creative studio Framestore provided visual effects for the series.[15]Filming wrapped in November 2021 with Baran bo Odar posting on Instagram.[16]

Release

1899 had a two-episode premiere on 47th Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2022. The series launched on Netflix on 17 November 2022,[1][17] along with a companion making-of documentary titled Making 1899.[18]

Reception

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On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an 84% approval rating based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 7.20/10.[19] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the series has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 11 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[20]

References

External links

• 1899 on Netflix
• 1899 at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] 1899 (TV series)

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[ru] 1899 (телесериал)

«1899» (англ. 1899) — запланированный европейский драматический телесериал с элементами мистики и ужасов. Создателями сериала являются Янтье Фризе[en] и Баран бо Одар, известные по сериалу «Тьма». Сериал из восьми эпизодов[1] выйдет на платформе Netflix в 2022 году.

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