Ken Follett's dramatic tension out of a textbook: "Christmas is canceled!"
Scotland, a day before Christmas Eve. Still, the island is green. In the research laboratory of Stanley Oxenford Excitement. A dose of the anti-virus against the deadly Madoba-2 virus is missing, an infected rabbit was also smuggled out of the high-security laboratory. An animal-loving staff obviously wanted to free the animal in order to save it with the anti-virus, not knowing that the remedy is not effective. documented on a video the man's own decline. Presumably he's been bitten by the rabbit. Perhaps appreciate Oxenford laboratory owner and his security chief, the situation wrong.
because it threatens a second blow to the institution. Oxenford gambling-addicted son became involved in a dangerous trade in with a unscrupulous creditors: the theft of the anti-virus it can be paid off his gambling debts of a quarter of a million pounds. The young man underestimated the coolness of his "colleagues" with whom he runs through the coup. As a blizzard the country with a blanket of snow covers and not come off the gangsters, they remain only the rural estate of Oxenford. There will the extended family to celebrate Christmas together. But as top villain Nigel said the burglary to the Institute ". Bad news, Christmas comes from"
"I wanted the one hand, an old-fashioned story telling about a group of people who are snowed terrorized in a house from intruders," says best-selling author Ken Follett in the ZDF interview. "On the other hand, I wanted to write a very timely subject. Dangerous viruses" Like his novel "Whiteout" also connects the two-part TV adaptation of these two issues in the typical action-heavy style of the Anglo-American narrative. The somewhat more complex than usual Follett novel is structured more as one of his less interesting books. The film by Peter Keglevic has this problem only in the length of exposure. It takes about 45 minutes to set the scenes, introduced all the characters and the father-son conflict is seen as the mother of action. After an hour of exercise comes in the story, which now controls more clearly towards a final confrontation. Now the audience is not only here but in the midst of history that is being developed in the second part as a classic family board game in the form of threat scenario. "Whiteout" is then the modern variation of the Bogart classic, "On a day like any other family with a few critical Borrow from Ang Lee's cinematic therapy session "snow storm".
Rainer Tittelbach
"Ken Follett's Whiteout"
ZDF / miniseries / Thriller
EA: 25 +27.1.2020, 20.15 clock (ZDF)
With Heiner Lauterbach, Isabella Ferrari, Tom Schilling, Matthias Brandt, Anneke Kim Sarnau Sophie von Kessel, Katharina Wackernagel, Bülent Sharif and Janek Rieke
book: Olaf Kraemer, Beatrix Christian
Director: Peter Keglevic
from the novel by Ken Follett
Production Company: Network Movie, Constantin Television
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