Kessler (TV series)

Kessler is a British drama series on the hunt for a German war criminal. The series is a sequel to the drama series Secret Army. In total, the series six episodes.

The series was broadcast by the BBC between 13 October and 18 december 1981. In Netherlands is the series broadcast by the NCRV and later repeated by TV10. ==Story[ Edit] == SS Standartenfüher Ludwig Kessler is after the Second World War, fled from a Canadian POW camp. Under the pseudonym Manfred Dorf is he become a rich industrialist in post-war Germany. Kessler has always remained a nazi and his ideas has passed on to his daughter Ingrid. Together they dream of the rebirth of the Hitler's Third Reich .Ingrid is advocate of a group of young neo-Nazis and asks her father in vain for money to support these fanatical group. Thirty years know Kessler to hide behind his respectable façade. But then Kessler recognized by the Belgian resistance fighters Albert Foiret, Monique Duchamps and Nathalie Chantrens. Kessler flight to Paraguaywhere more old Nazis hide as Josef Mengele and Martin Bormann. He is chased by the Richard Bauer of the German secret service and the young Israeli Mical Rak who wants to avenge her murdered parents by the Nazis. ==Production[ Edit] == After the success of Secret Army wanted the BBC like a sequel to this series. Since Secret Army had ended after the second world war could also play the sequel only after 1945. The last one took as a starting point and never aired episode of Secret Army, "What did you do in the war, daddy?". In this episode a number of protagonists fromSecret Army together again in 1969 for the television program In our time, to talk about their war experiences. However, this episode sent the BBC on the grounds that a strike had thrown a spanner in the works when mounting the episode. The real reason was probably that the episode wasn't matched the mood of the rest of the series.

It was decided the former resistance fighters who come together one more time to hold and in the first episode, Monique and Nathalie Foiret come back together. They talk about the industrial Dorf and suspecting him that he in fact Kessler is. The series, however, soon leaves Europe and concentrates on Paraguay. Because Foiret, Monique and Nathalie is no longer in the series further prevent Kessler the only one that still has roots in Secret Army.

Initially it was intended that Kessler would be situated in the early 1960s. The BBC refused because of the high cost for costumes and scenery and asked for the series in the present play (1980). Though the writers had object (for example, in 1980 the character Kessler was sure seventy or eighty years) was asked that year to hold them anyway. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Clifford Rose – Ludwig Kessler/Manfred Dorf
 * Alan Dobie – Richard Bauer
 * Nitza Saul – Mical Rak
 * Allson Glennie – Ingrid Dorf
 * Oscar Quitak – Josef Mengele