At prime time, the first is showing Informant – Fear over the City this evening, a new mini-series with Jürgen Vogel and Elisa Schlott. Instead of the monotony of a crime thriller, you can expect an adaptation of a British terror thriller that impresses with its complex story. In this article you will find:
In the thriller series, a terrorist attack must be prevented – with devastating consequences
The series is based on the BBC series Informer with House of the Dragon star Paddy Considine, with author and director Matthias Glasner (Die) transferring and adapting the story to Hamburg.
The series begins with a catastrophe, then we jump back to answer the question of how it happened. LKA man Gabriel Bach (Jürgen Vogel in the Considine role) has to investigate clues about a planned terrorist attack on the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie with the ambitious BKA officer Holly Valentin (Elisa Schlott).
After an informant is found dead, recruit the two Raza Shaheen (Ivar Wafaei), who knew the dead man but had not yet had any contacts with the criminal scene. Raza hopes to save his girlfriend Sadia (Bayan Layla) from deportation. However, the newcomer to the informant game quickly takes a liking to the dangerous challenge.
Broadcast dates: Then comes Informant – fear over the city on TV
The story will be told in six episodes, which will be broadcast on the first from today, October 16, 2024. There are the following episodes or parts:
The broadcast dates on ARD are as follows:
The reruns run the night after, but you don’t have to stay up late to watch the series.
Informant – Fear over the City is already streaming on Arte and in the ARD media library:
All episodes of Informant – Fear over the City are already streaming in the ARD media library and the Arte media library, which means you can watch them without additional costs or a subscription.
The thriller series has received positive responses
“Unfortunately it fits the current mood perfectly”is the shortened conclusion in the criticism from Tittelbach.tv, in which a “more outstanding” Ivar Wafaei is praised as the titular informant:
Glasner wanted to ‘tell how the paranoia of the state and the fear of Islam lead to an escalation of the situation’ […] and so you can see Glasner’s adaptation in realistic big city look can also be seen as a warning about the consequences of the current social climate.
DWDL highlights stereotypes and clichés in the story, but…
However, all the platitudes are purely formal flaws in an amazingly clever thriller series with courtroom aspects to criticize bureaucracy.
The taz says:
That’s where this series goes […] far beyond the usual style of public crime thrillers. Informant has a dramaturgically complex story that tells a lot about police work and prejudices against migrant communities […]but without using the flat enemy image of the ‘bad cop’.
Now you can get your own idea of the series.