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The Defeated

The Defeated / Shadowplay (TV Series 2020)

New York Police Department Detective Max McLaughlin gets assigned to post-World War II Berlin by the United States Department of State to help organize and establish a new police force, and help Elsie Garten, a novice female German police superintendent, to fight crime in 1946 Germany. He also plans to look for his brother, Moritz, a United States Army soldier who went AWOL at the end of the war.

Produced by TANDEM Productions (Germany) and BRON Studios (Canada)
Producer: Rola Bauer, Jim Gillespie and Rick McCallum
Director: Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein

Main cast: Taylor Kitsch, Nina Hoss, Sebastian Koch, Logan Marshall-Green and Tuppence Middleton.

Shot in the Czech Republic with large Berlin 1946 exterior sets constructed in former factory compounds in Lenesice and Kladno, locations in and around Prague and extensive use of VFX assets to create the intense atmosphere of ruin and splendor.

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