The Prisoner Nummer 6

The sediments at the bottom of television: series and serials, omnipresent and almost as infinite as the medium itself. Few only were successfull in touching the underside of our attentiveness.
UNWAHRSCHEINLICHE GESCHICHTEN ("Improbable Stories") was one that did, the classic TWILIGHT ZONE.
Anything associated with the expression TV-magic applies to this.

Phantastic television of the sixties, among other things, is one conjuring formula:
"Be seeing you!" or
L'année dernière
au Village:

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS:
(GERMAN KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED)
MIT BEITRÄGEN FOLGENDER AUTOREN:
 
DAVE BARRIE
FRANK T. BITTERHOF
TOBIAS BECKER
M. KEITH BOOKER
MICHAEL BRÜNE
PATRICK DUCHER
ROBERT FAIRCLOUGH
HOWARD FOY
GUILLAUME GRANIER
LARRY HALL
HARALD KELLER
MOOR LARKIN
KEVIN P. MAHONEY
RICK McGRATH
JANA MÜLLER
CHRIS RODLEY
CHRISTOPH WINDER
VALARIE ZIEGLER

 

LOCUS AMOENUS

The first is the hallmark episode that sets the tone for everything that happens within a microcosmos of ubiquitous providence and eccentric occurences.
Without any doubt it's the very place where the outdoor shooting was made that conveys the show's overall impression. The Village, an eclecticistic collection of fantasy building styles and features, is both stunning and fundamental to the series. The Village ist the most important supporting actor.


< Old People's Home

Wisely, the place is never located temporally or locally by the production. At least, that is, until the ultimate episode. But even the signposted "A20" motorway to nearby London may be a disorienting clue on a higher level of interpretation.
It is a timeless relic as well as a contemporary artefact, the place where the real matches the realistic.

"Welcome home from Home" reads a note on his desk. Upon his arrival Number Six takes a walk round an early morning place. Excited he is, wants to know where he is and he enters the local shop where he demands a map of the Place and its environs from the shop keeper. Nightmarish, perplexing and oppressing: the place is The Place, the sea is The Sea, the mountains are The Mountains... Deja-vu - tautology, a shimmering of meaning: everything is just what it is.
Cabs will undertake only local rides, public phones allow only local calls, canned food displays a "Village Food" label only. And public speaker announcements spreading anti-information in a news-like manner: ice-cream is on sale, "the flavour of the day is strawberry."

 

 

 

There is no questioning the outside. The inmates's way of saluting each other is both joyful and subliminally threatening at the same time: "Wir sehen uns!" ("Be seeing you!").

 

Contact impressum filmtexte - texts on film deutsch english language   "Wir sehen uns!" oder L'année dernière au Village · The Prisoner · Nummer 6

 

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WIR SEHEN UNS! D
BE SEEING YOU! E
THE CAFE
FREE SEA
OLD PEOPLE'S HOME
CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
WALK ON THE GRASS
6 PRIVATE
2 PRIVATE
GENERAL STORES
TOWN HALL
LABOUR EXCHANGE
COUNCIL CHAMBER
BAND STAND
CHESS LAWN
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TEXTS ON FILM

FREE INFORMATION
SIX OF ONE · 601 D
THE VILLAGE D
CAMERA OBSCURA
WHO IS NUMBER 1?
THE NEW NUMBER 2 D
"ORANGE ALERT!"
VILLAGE FACT FILES
"MUSIC SAYS IT ALL"
McGOOHAN INTERVIEW D
"ARRIVAL" SCRIPT
SPEEDLEARN DIR
THE TALLY HO D DIR
Nr6DE FRIENDS & SUPP.
THE PRISONER WEBLINKS
TV-MAGIC WEBLINKS
IMPRESSUM | FEEDBACK

ARRIVAL
THE CIMES OF BIG BEN
A. B. AND C.
FREE FOR ALL
THE SCHIZOID MAN
THE GENERAL
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
DANCE OF THE DEAD
CHECKMATE
HAMMER INTO ANVIL
IT'S YOUR FUNERAL
A CHANGE OF MIND
DO NOT FORSAKE ME...
LIVING IN HARMONY
THE GIRL WHO WAS DEATH
ONCE UIPON A TIME
FALL OUT