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Netflix, Amazon & Co.: These are the highlights in October
After the release of a video showing her having sex with her student, Macarena’s (Irene Arcos) life is turned upside down. The drama series “You Shall Not Lie – Deadly Secrets” can be seen on the night of October 14th on October 15th in the first – and then in the ARD media library. photo
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The reality show “Forsthaus Rampensau”, Princess Diana, Helene Fischer, a new Stephen King film or a Spanish series about a sex video and its consequences: what’s worth streaming now.
A few streaming tips for the near future:
Sex video: Spanish series maker Pau Freixas, writer and director of the original “Red Band Club”, shows the depths of a wealthy fictional coastal town in the thriller series “You Shall Not Lie”. The focus is on Irene Arcos as the teacher Macarena, whose well-ordered life is thrown off course by an anonymously shared sex video. The viral video shows the teacher with a student whose mother is also her best friend. Despite all of this, 18-year-old Iván (Lucas Nabor) still holds on to his dreams of a future together with Macarena. The first shows the series, whose original title is “Todos Mienten” (i.e. “All lie”) and which had its online premiere in Germany on RTL +, in one piece on the night of October 14th to 15th (from 0.20 a.m ) – and then in the ARD media library.
Diana: The royal drama “Spencer” by Chilean director Pablo Larrain (“Jackie”) revolves around three days in the British royal family. At Christmas 1991 at the Sandringham estate, Princess Diana is about to separate from Prince Charles. Stella Gonet plays Queen Elizabeth II, Jack Farthing Prince Charles, the current king. Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) received an Oscar nomination for her leading role, but lost to Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”). In the highly dramatized film, she plays Diana as a mentally ill woman who sees the country estate as a prison, has visions and longs for the times without royal protocol. “It’s a fable from a true tragedy,” says the beginning of the German-British co-production, which was partly filmed in the Taunus at the Schlosshotel Kronberg and at the Münsterland Castle Nordkirchen. Amazon Prime Video has the film in its flat rate program from October 13th.
Helene Fischer: There will again be no “Helene Fischer Show” for Christmas in 2022. But on October 1st, ZDF broadcast the 75-minute concert film “Helene Fischer – When everything goes nuts”. It is a concert recording of the Munich open-air event, which was attended by more than 130,000 spectators in August. An average of 3 million people watched it on ZDF. Of course, that was significantly less than what the “Helene Fischer Show” used to bring for Christmas, but it was quite decent. Fans who have missed the film by director Paul Dugdale or who want to see it again now have the chance to do so in the ZDF media library until the end of October. The video is available until October 30th. in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, according to ZDF.
Telephone horror: Stephen King films have – at least in the past – had what it takes to be a global success, think of “Shining”, “Misery”, “The Green Mile”, “The Condemned”, “It” or “Stand by Me – Das secret of a summer”. Now Netflix has brought a novella by King with a top cast into the program. 87-year-old film star Donald Sutherland (“The Hunger Games”, “When the Gondolas Mourn”) and 19-year-old Jaeden Martell (“It”, “Knives Out – Murder is a Family Matter”) play the main roles in the short novel adaptation . Director John Lee Hancock (“Blind Side – The Big Chance”) staged the horror flick. The story revolves around a boy who helps the old, rich, sightless Mr. Harrigan around the house to earn pocket money. Both have a fondness for books and reading. When the oddball billionaire dies, the boy secretly smuggles a mobile phone into his grave. Craig then finds that he can still communicate with Mr. Harrigan over the cell phone. The film “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” (106 minutes) has been available on Netflix since Wednesday.
There’s koaSünd on the Alm?: Austria now also has a celebrity reality show. It bears the beautiful title “Forsthaus Rampensau”. Anyone who wants to see them in Germany can do so on the video-on-demand provider Joyn (from ProSiebenSat.1, Discovery and others) after the ATV broadcast since Thursday. The so-called celebrities move in pairs with their partner or buddy to a self-catering hut at 1300 meters in the Carinthian Lavanttal. They play games and surely want to cut each other’s way to victory. Anyone who hardly knows the participants in German reality shows will perhaps be even more at a loss here. There are, for example, Rebecca (daughter of Peter Rapp) and Sonja (sister of Lukas Plöchl), reality TV queen Tara Tabitha, celebrity hairdresser Josef Winkler, Tinderking Luis or Richard Lugner’s ex-girlfriend from 2009, Nina “Bambi” Bruckner.