The platform at the red N has pulled off another masterstroke! After Tapie, One Piece And Devoured by flamesit is the turn of a series from Germany to create a surprise and climb to second place in the Top 10 of the streaming platform.
Posted online on September 7, 2023, this six-episode miniseries tells a captivating story which might remind some macabre news items. But what stories is this plot inspired by? Answer !
What is the synopsis?
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Dear little one is a psychological thriller telling the story of Lena (Kim Riedle), a mother kept captive in an isolated cabin deep in the woods. But Lena is not the only one to be locked up And monitored : she is accompanied by her two children, Hannah (Naila Schuberth) and Jonathan (Sammy Schrein).
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After 13 years of captivity, Lena manages to escape with her daughter from the clutches of her husband. During his leakshe is victim of a serious car accident and finds himself hospitalized. Listening to the story of this confinement and from this sequestrationthe investigators were far from imagining that a unresolved case would resurface. For the police, the mother is none other than Lena Beck, a student who went missing 13 years earlier.
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What are the news stories that inspired the series?
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This story is inspired by the novel Liebes Kind (2019) by Romy Haussmann. In 2006, the writer discovered, like millions of viewers, a terrible news item that hit the headlines : the chilling story of Natasha Kampusch, a young Austrian girl kept captive from the age of 10 to 18 in a basement by Wolfgang Přiklopil. In an interview with Netflix, she said she had been “upset” by Natascha’s television interview with Günther Jauch in 2006, shortly after her escape.
Did you know ? Natascha Kampusch’s story gave rise to a book and a film released in 2013, 3096 days.
Furthermore, this novel also draws its inspiration from another case of child confinement, that of Elisabeth Fritzl. At 42, Elisabeth admitted to having been sequestered in a room without windows and raped by her father for 24 yearsbetween 1984 and 2008. During her captivity, she gave birth to seven childrenall from rapes.
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But how were the two young actors (aged 8 and 10 respectively) prepared to play scenes so horrible ? The directors, anxious to protect them, proposed a watered down version of the scenariocarried out with the help of a psychologist and a specialist in media education.
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