This week's film and series

A young Bob Dylan and an old Robert De Niro are in the spotlight at the cinema and on TV. Here are this week's films and series.

» Published: February 19 2025

This week's film and series
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One day in the early 1960s, Bob Dylan comes to New York and changes music history. But he has a very hard time finding himself in icon status and being what everyone else wants him to be. Timothée Chalamet has been praised for his performance as a young Dylan, who provokes the folk music world when he wants to electrify his music. Monica Barbaro plays folk singer Joan Baez in James Mangold's film.

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Magnus von Horn is the Swedish director who works in Poland, but his drama is Denmark's Oscars bid and nominated in the category of best international film. The pregnant and abandoned young factory worker Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) struggles to get by in Copenhagen after World War I when she comes into contact with a clinic that takes care of unwanted children.

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" (20/2, Netflix).

Robert De Niro makes his first major TV role in a political conspiracy thriller. A comprehensive cyberattack paralyzes the USA and kills thousands when trains and planes crash across the country. The respected ex-president George Mullen (De Niro) is tasked with investigating what has happened and finding the guilty. But is Mullen still sharp enough to complete the task? Jesse Plemons and Connie Britton appear in supporting roles as the president's advisors.

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Steven Knight was the man behind the acclaimed "Peaky Blinders" about gang criminals in Birmingham after World War I. In his new series, he goes back in time to 1880s London and depicts the Victorian era's mythical criminal gangs and illegal boxing clubs, where two fighters, played by Malachi Kirby and Stephan Graham, are rivals for supremacy. But everything is controlled by boss Mary Carr (Erin Doherty).

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" (26/2, AppleTv+).

German drama series about the city hospital in the German capital, populated by doctors who go directly from the techno club to work, but also dedicated doctors who struggle with overcrowded waiting rooms and cutbacks.

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