W&B managing director Max Wiedemann has said that while Blackout – Tomorrow Is Too Late is a gripping thriller, “it is also a show about hope: if people come together and help each other, the worst can be overcome”. It was quite hard to shoot, especially wide shots, because we had to ask hundreds of families to switch off their lights for two hours,” co-director Oliver Rihs told Drama Quarterly.īlackout – Tomorrow Is Too Late (not to be confused with Blackout, a 10-part Belgian drama series that sees the country plunged into darkness and the Prime minister’s daughter kidnapped) comes from W&B Television, the production company behind the crime series Pagan Peak, sci-fi thriller series Dark and the film The Lives of Others. … You can’t imagine, especially if you live in a city, there being no light, because you always have light. “We really wanted the audience to feel the blackout.

It’s a reminder of just how much we rely on light. There are some scenes in the series where things are so dark, it’s hard to see much at all not in a way that interferes with the story, quite the opposite. Shooting a film about a blackout had its challenges for the actors – Bleibtreu has talked of how physically and mentally challenging it was at times – and for the directors. Veit Rhees (Stephan Kampwirth) watches as Frauke Michelsen (Marie Leuenberger) confronts investigator Jurgen Hartland (Heiner Lauterbach). The series, like Elsberg’s book, shows just how wide-ranging the consequences can be: the people hanging, upside down, a deadly distance above the ground after a rollercoaster stops mid-ride dairy cows in pain from swollen udders because the machines that normally do the milking can’t be used the pointless queues at service stations where bowsers need electricity the desperate situation for food and water. While a few hours without power can be annoying, day after day without power has devastating consequences. Her twin daughters are missing.īased on the best-selling novel by Marc Elsberg, German-language drama Blackout – Tomorrow Is Too Late is a deftly woven thriller that keeps us guessing as the hours and days tick by. In Germany, with her boss stranded overseas, Frauke Michelsen finds herself heading the country’s crisis response team – but she’s got more than food shortages and a lack of fuel to keep emergency generators going at hospitals to worry about. But soon, in a disastrous chain reaction, the entire European power grid is down – and for former hacker Pierre Manzano, the past is about reach a hand into the present and jerk him out of his quiet life in Italy. At first, it seems like there’s an issue at a single German power station.

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