CREATOR OF BEARBARIANS SERIES
įor Forbes, film historian Sheena Scott rated Barbarians as "an excellent series that reveals a key historical event in Europe through a gripping tale of love, friendship, betrayal and revenge" and praised the "excellent production design, great performances, especially the main trio Jeanne Goursaud, David Shutter and Laurence Rupp, and the wonderful cinematography of the series." Despite some weaknesses, the series is exciting and worth seeing if you don't make too many demands on the historical accuracy of the plot. Costumes, props and buildings were very well done, the equipment of the Roman legionaries corresponded to historical reality, and the Germanic longhouses looked amazingly authentic. The Latin dialogues of the Romans are a highlight. It vividly shows the two irreconcilable cultures. Thomas Grueter judged in the science portal Spektrum that the overall impression of the series remains ambivalent. Arminus is the namesake of the football club. This is an allusion to the chants by DSC Arminia Bielefeld. Īt the start of the series, Netflix advertised in Bielefeld with the text Nobody conquers the Teutoburg Forest. ĭuring the production, the makers of the television series took advice from historians.
The first four episodes were staged by Austrian director Barbara Eder, and the final two episodes directed by Irishman Steve St. Esther Walz was responsible for costume design, Thomas Stammer for the production design and Iris Baumuller for the casting. The series was produced by the German Gaumont GmbH, a subsidiary of the French Gaumont (producers Sabine de Mardt, Andreas Bareiss and Ranier Marquass.) Ĭhristian Stassinger was in charge of the camera. The shooting took place in Budapest from August 12 to November 30, 2019. Faced with the disaster of the moment and betrayed by the treason of his adopted son, Varus commits suicide. These events eventually culminate in a massive ambush of three Roman legions (some 15,000 men) at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where the Germanic people emerge victorious. Upon seeing the atrocities inflicted by Roman soldiers on his former people, he becomes the new chieftain of the Cherusci tribe, and ignites a rebellion by finally uniting the tribes with the help of Thusnelda (daughter of Segestes) and Folkwin Wolfspeer, his two best friends during childhood.
He returns to Germania to help Publius Quinctilius Varus (his foster father) maintain order in the region. Attempts to form a unified Germanic resistance are hampered by petty in-fighting between the tribal chieftains, and the selfish aspirations of certain tribesmen desiring peace with Rome.Īrminius, an eques in the Roman Imperial army, is a member of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who was given away as a hostage to Rome when he was a child, along with his younger brother Flavus, by his father Segimer to ensure peace between his tribe and Rome. It takes place at the end of the reign of the emperor Augustus in an area conquered by Rome over a period of twenty years. The story takes place during the Roman occupation of Magna Germania (an area between the Rhine river and the Elbe) in latter part of AD 9, where the Germanic tribes are oppressed by the empire's heavy taxes and demands for tribute.
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