Close to the Enemy

Close to the Enemy

2016
Close to the Enemy
Close to the Enemy

Close to the Enemy

6 | en | Drama

A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

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EP7  Episode 7
Dec. 22,2016
Episode 7

Victor, still struggling to cope with the effects of the war, tries to expose the activities of Callum's team. Those around him choose not to pay attention and force him to seek medical help. He escapes from the hospital psychiatric ward at an opportune moment, while Callum and Rachel take advantage of Alex's upcoming business trip. When Callum's superiors try to stop Victor, his life is threatened. Dieter finally tells Callum the truth about his past in Germany. The tables have turned, and it is now Dieter who tries to win over Callum. Harold similarly feels despair for failing to live up to Callum's expectations of him. Can these two men convince Callum of their integrity?

EP6  Episode 6
Dec. 15,2016
Episode 6

Victor, still struggling to cope with the effects of the war, tries to expose the activities of Callum's team. Those around him choose not to pay attention and force him to seek medical help. He escapes from the hospital psychiatric ward at an opportune moment, while Callum and Rachel take advantage of Alex's upcoming business trip. When Callum's superiors try to stop Victor, his life is threatened. Dieter finally tells Callum the truth about his past in Germany. The tables have turned, and it is now Dieter who tries to win over Callum. Harold similarly feels despair for failing to live up to Callum's expectations of him. Can these two men convince Callum of their integrity?

EP5  Episode 5
Dec. 08,2016
Episode 5

While Dieter is seemingly helping the British to achieve their jet engine goals, Victor comes to Callum with proof that Dieter isn't innocent of war crimes. After thwarting Victor and Kathy's attempts to recover information by stealth, Callum goes some way to regaining their favour by helping Kathy get access to a useful German prisoner, Birgit Mentz. He advises Kathy to try employing his own tactics to get Birgit to open up. Callum thinks he can get the proof that Harold requires to expose the British government's wartime secrets, and also keep Victor and Rachel close to him at the hotel. But can he have it all?

EP4  Episode 4
Dec. 01,2016
Episode 4

Kathy and Callum successfully prevent a war criminal from leaving the country, but is he too important to prosecute? Callum is instructed to get rid of all information pertaining to individuals of interest, while also having to court the imperious Frau Bellinghausen who holds the key to an infamous perfume. Callum juggles these new demands as his relationship with Rachel intensifies and becomes more compromising. Victor and Kathy make the most of Callum's distractions to find whatever his department has been hiding. Callum begins to realise that he is not the free agent he has always believed himself to be. Callum's dealings inside the hotel bring him closer to Harold, an ex-Foreign Office official and hotel regular, who reveals some startling truths about the outbreak of the war. Meanwhile, the friendship between Dieter and Callum is threatened as it is believed that Dieter may have stood by as innocents in labour camps perished under the rule of the Nazi party.

EP3  Episode 3
Nov. 24,2016
Episode 3

Everyone puts aside their differences in the search for Lotte and Callum is forced to take a choice between his brother and orders from his superiors. Callum's best friend, Alex, encourages his American wife, Rachel, to seek Callum's help in becoming a patron of the arts.

EP2  Episode 2
Nov. 17,2016
Episode 2

Callum uses unorthodox methods in an attempt to convince Dieter to work with the British, while also juggling the demands of War Crimes officer Kathy — who believes the British government is harboring war criminals — and his troubled younger brother, Victor.

EP1  Episode 1
Nov. 10,2016
Episode 1

At the end of WWII, British intelligence officer Callum Ferguson is assigned to persuade captured German scientist Dieter Koehler to work with the RAF to develop an urgently needed jet engine.

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Released: 2016-11-10 | Released Producted By: , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082sy3q
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A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

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Cast

Jim Sturgess , Charlotte Riley , Angela Bassett

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Stephen Poliakoff

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rsg-25524 The acting of Alfred Molina is worth the time. Yes, I agree with some that the plot has some unlikely twists and down ends, but overall I enjoyed the series. Lindsey Duncan and Angela Bassett are noteworthy. Perhaps from a British viewpoint the series didn't dig deep enough, but frankly I found the characters with their obvious guilt and pain over the war very human. I see so many murder mystery series that this was refreshing looking at this time period. So I don't know if they will ever do another season, but I wish they would.
Paul Evans I'll admit I was hooked after the first episode, within ten minutes of this beginning I just knew this was going to be quality. Poliakoff delivers drama in such a different way to most writers, he has a means of drawing you in to comfortable, rambling dramas, then changing the rules once you're hooked.This is a captivating drama from start to finish, the story is totally engaging and fascinating, the characters even more so, all of them hold with their own stories to tell. With each episode your feelings as to who the enemy is will change.Fabulous performances all round, Jim Sturgess is commanding in the lead role, but he is beautifully supported by Alfred Molina, Charlotte Riley, August Diehl etc. Freddie Highmore is sensational as his brother Victor, providing countless scene stealing moments.Another Poliakoff drama I didn't want to end. Possibly slow for some that crave instant high impact drama, this doesn't work like that it unpicks the story gradually. All in all its a real winner 9/10
Dave Swan I thought he was Norman Bates in the wrong show he was exactly the same character in Bates Motel and Close to the Enemy. Another old actor that played the same character with different names was Stephen Lewis as Blakey in On the Buses and Smiler in Last of the Summer Wine I am sure many other actors do the same but these two stand out in your face as one and the same. Stephen Lewis has passed away now but come on Freddie you must be able to do better than this effort. The jury is out and we are watching you.The show itself wasn't too bad just a bit slow and need not have been 7 parts if they had got on with it 4 parts would have seen it to conclusion as it was I wanted someone to shoot Victor in every episode.
asennett-78545 I expect this will annoy some people and if so all well and good. Reading the negative reviews of Poliakoff's recent BBC drama I was apt to think that the reviewers were likely to be from a particular demographic: white, middle aged and ( this is a long shot) Brexit voters. It seems to me that they have completely misunderstood the whole point of this brilliant drama. It is indeed stylistically quirky, stilted in its language and takes a long time to get to its real points. However, it is a wonderful journey and well worth the seven hours it takes to get there. Far from being poorly acted, as several people state, it is quite brilliantly acted and huge talents like Lindsay Duncan and Alfred Molina are far from wasted. Moreover there are new talents being revealed here. I think that the reason several reviewers hate it so much is that it is a cultured and deliberately nuanced piece of drama that demands the audience pay attention and read between the lines. For it is not really about the 1940s at all! It is about now. It is about the racism and bigotry of the time in which we live. The intolerance of difference and tendency to avoid thinking in our society. The moral dilemmas of the central characters are not simply those of the 1940s where murderers got away with things because the British, Americans and Russians wanted to use their knowledge to create weapons of mass destruction. Those weapons are not only still with us but pose a threat that may be even greater than in the Cold War era. It is about power in age age when bigotry, racism and fear are ever present. The efforts of some to create a Europe and international community of cooperation are placed in jeopardy by the ignorance of those who don't want to think, don't wish to explore the past for what it can teach us and who simply want the crap of the vast majority of media output we are presented with on TV, film and the Internet. If you can't see that you have totally misunderstood the point of Poliakoff's work.

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