Fantasyserie, Großbritannien 2021
Auf der Flucht vor ihren Verfolgern reisen Diana und Matthew in die Vergangenheit: Im London des Jahres 1590 sucht das Paar eine Hexenlehrerin für Diana und "Das Buch des Lebens".
Originaltitel: A Discovery of Witches
– Episode #2.1
Besetzung | Teresa Palmer | Diana Bishop |
Matthew Goode | Matthew Clairmont | |
Alex Kingston | Sarah Bishop | |
Valarie Pettiford | Emily Mather | |
Edward Bluemel | Marcus Whitmore | |
Daniel Ezra | Nathaniel Wilson | |
Aiysha Hart | Miriam Shepherd | |
Lindsay Duncan | Ysabeau De Clermont | |
Aisling Loftus | Sophie Norman | |
Regie | Farren Blackburn | |
Drehbuch | Pete McTighe, Susie Conklin | |
Produzent | Pete McTighe, Jane Tranter, Julie Gardener, Susie Conklin, Dominic Barlow |
Adapted from Deborah Harkness best-selling trilogy of novels, A Discovery of Witches is a bold and romantic thriller that uncovers a secret underworld of extraordinary beings hiding in plain sight for fear of persecution by humans they are vampires, witches and daemons. Brilliant historian Diana Bishop is a witch denying her own heritage. But when she unexpectedly calls up an ancient, bewitched manuscript from Oxfords Bodleian library, one that was thought by the creatures to be lost and could answer the mysteries of their existence, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a dangerous mystery and into the path of the enigmatic geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont. Matthew is driven to solve the looming threat of the creatures decline and extinction, but their unlikely alliance to find the book before it falls into the wrong hands and their deepening relationship threatens to violate age-old taboos and shake the fragile peace that exists between the species. Starring: Pino Maiello, Alex Kingston, Valarie Pettiford.