Overview
- After debuting all six episodes on ARD-Mediathek on December 22, the series starts its linear broadcast on ARD tonight at 20:15 with the first four episodes.
- Set in the Lüneburger Heide around 1900, the drama portrays an oil boom that upends rural life with a stylized, Western-inflected tone.
- Harriet Herbig-Matten leads as Johanna Lambert alongside Tom Wlaschiha, Aaron Hilmer, Gwendoline Christie, Marton Csokas, Jessica Schwarz, Lena Urzendowsky and Stephan Kampwirth.
- Hans Zimmer composed the score with Aleksey Igudesman, aiming for music that feels authentic across eras rather than strict period reconstruction.
- Commissioned by NDR and filmed partly on location at the Museumsdorf Hösseringen, the production draws praise for scale and casting while some reviews question historical plausibility and a pronounced feminist framing.