Funny zoo guests, prominent dinner guests and involuntary permanent guests – our streaming tips for the coming days.
„Dinner Club“ (Prime Video)
In the “Dinner Club”, the Swiss three-star chef Andreas Caminada invites his guests Moritz Bleibtreu, Caro Daur, Karoline Herfurth, Kurt Krömer, Franka Potente and Teddy Teclebrhan to dinner together. In each episode, Caminada goes on a culinary journey of discovery to a different country with one of the celebrity guests. With new ingredients and inspiration from the countries visited, each episode ends with a dinner menu for everyone. As with friends at home, the evening is characterized by entertaining anecdotes and personal stories of travel and adventures in the countries of Montenegro, Switzerland, Cyprus, Mexico, Portugal and the British part of Scotland. Who will manage to impress the celebrity guests with his or her menu? The adaptation of an Italian series runs on Prime Video from January 3rd.
The fluffy, clumsy panda bear has not only taken the internet by storm – behind his cute appearance there is also a lot of soft power, as an Arte documentary reports. “For decades, China has been lending the animals to countries in order to forge strategic alliances and strengthen its own image,” said the cultural broadcaster. The film “Panda Diplomacy – China’s fluffy ambassadors” (now in the Arte media library) shows how the former loner became a symbolic cultural ambassador.
German citizens abroad are usually shown in films as vacationers or emigrants. A new series by documentary filmmaker Christian Bock focuses on a different group: prisoners. What is your everyday life like behind bars? What are the challenges far from home? The first two episodes show the prison life of Germans in Japan and Paraguay. In Japanese prisons, for example, there is an unyielding system of rules and prohibitions. Germans serving their sentences there have often attempted to smuggle drugs and received the standard sentence for these offenses – eight years. In the Fuchu men’s prison and the women’s prison in Tochigi, they now live a narrow everyday life that is always threatened by punishment and isolation. Monotonous work, hardly any heating, hardly any contacts. “Germans in Jail” will be available in the ZDF media library from January 2nd.
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- Germans in prison: © ZDF/dahl
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