Livvagterne

2009 - 2010

Part 1

1st January 2009

Episode 1

Danish defense minister Henrik Skelbæk would be exposed as an utter coward hadn't his PET bodyguards pulled him trough a 'scary' New Year visit to the troops in Iraq. In order to phone his mistress, the adulterous politician breaks safety rules, costing valiant young bodyguard Ibro Catic his life. Like every year, 20 of the best police academy recruits are admitted to PET's elite training selection process. The hero's father Drazen Catic, a traumatized Bosnian refugee, fails to attend the funeral, which worries the brass. Indeed he followed the minister, seeing he's 'playing' with an opposition adviser.

Part 2

4th January 2009

Episode 2

The PET recruits class completes its training course. For Rasmus and a few mates, the normal exam is replaced by an actual operation. They must help track down and eliminate Drazen Catic, the Bosnian father of the killed bodyguard, who has kidnapped the adulterous minister's mistress and is a danger to anyone as his own family and colleagues sadly experience.

Part 3

11th January 2009

Episode 3

The just-graduated rookies are officially instated as PET bodyguards. After the yellow defense minister's resignation to take up a diplomatic posting abroad, the PM reshuffles the Danish cabinet. As this makes the daughter of in immigrated Persian professor culture minister, PET rightly suspects increased security risks from racist right-wing extremists. A leak is soon found, pointing to a complex conspiracy. Rasmus needs to mentally digest his deadly first mission.

Part 4

18th January 2009

Episode 4

Even now he's best man at his sister's wedding, only Jewish PET agent Jonas Goldschmidt agrees to an undercover entrapment of the racists suspected of planning to murder his Egyptian colleague. After a fake discharge, he's transferred to the uniformed police as partner of the only accessible conspirator. The plan proves surprisingly complex and counter)action very dangerous, but the PM supports field chief Leon against yellow paper-pusher Diane.

Part 5

25th January 2009

Episode 5

Jonas Goldschmidt's marital troubles worry is superiors too. Jasmina must push her naive, conservative sister to report on her husband and his buddy, Islamic fundamentalist, who have visited Afghanistan viz. Pakistan. They dispose of all ingredients to construct a big bomb.

Part 6

1st February 2009

Episode 6

The Danish prime minister allows invasive spy techniques to observe the Islamist terror suspects, which prove Ammar Hayat and Mukhtaar have prepared a bomb. Next the PET team works out the target is the NATO secretary-general's visit to the monarch, the medium a trolly-car. Time is running out and tailing goes wrong, so a psychologic counter-measure is devised, appealing to paternal instinct which researched shows to be at the root of hatred too.

Part 7

8th February 2009

Episode 7

Danish PM Jens Ole Vestergaard is guarded on his last official visit, to Paris, where he'll bid for an EU post. Meanwhile his bride, famous actress Josefine Rhode, is also under discrete PET guard. Prime concern is a female stalker, whose fantasy is to become Mrs. Vestergaard herself. Still even PET is surprised when Josefine's hen night goes way out of hand, and is filmed, so although the national press accepts to hold the story, crisis PR advises to cancel the wedding to save his career. Yet Josefine may be innocent, the stalker having impersonated her, which nobody realizes yet.

Part 8

15th February 2009

Episode 8

The PM can't decide whether to stand by his fiancée, who turns on him and the PET, or play it politically safe as his PR team hopes. The PET meanwhile works out it was all the evil doing of the lunatic stalker, whose imaginary world makes her dangerous and unpredictable if undone. Jonas must come to terms with his wife having emigrated to a kibbutz, unlikely to return at all.

Part 9

22nd February 2009

Episode 9

The PET mobilizes to guard the participants of an international Copenhagen climate conference. Prime target seems the Dutch professor Wim Cremer, the spokesman of the scientifically absurd denial of the greenhouse effect itself. The team ignores he blackmails the British climate minister, who received a memory stick full of data about bribed participants, with StaSi records concerning embarrassing private youth life.

Part 10

Episode 10

Eco-terrorist leader Christoph Meyer, a former Bader-Meynhoff member, plays tricks on everyone, including his naive terrorist greenhorns, to lure British minister Thornton in a trap. After blackmail and kidnapping, she suffers disclosure as he claims to be the father of her aborted child. MI5 discovers he blackmail trail trough the mister's spouse. PET has a hard time localizing the kidnappers, then to plan an intervention in the decommissioned broadcast studio.

Top Cast

André Babikian•Cecilie Stenspil•Søren Vejby

Writer

Mai Brostrøm

Drama Crime Mystery

The Danish national police branch PET is in charge of personal protection, mainly of politicians and royal family. That also involves preventive work concerning terrorism, stalking etcetera. Meanwhile several team members must keep op top of personal concerns, such as ethnic background-related concerns and relational troubles at home.

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André Babikian

Jonas Goldschmidt

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Cecilie Stenspil

Jasmina El-Murad

Søren Vejby Image

Søren Vejby

Rasmus Poulsen

Thomas W. Gabrielsson Image

Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Leon Hartvig Jensen

Ditte Gråbøl Image

Ditte Gråbøl

Diana Pedersen

Rasmus Bjerg Image

Rasmus Bjerg

'Lille Kurt' Birk

Ellen Hillingsø Image

Ellen Hillingsø

Benedikte 'Tønne' Tønnesen

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Tommy Kenter

Jørgen Boas

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Jacob Kusk

Cinematography

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Lars Reinholdt

Cinematography

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Camilla Hjelm Knudsen

Cinematography

Kirsten Koch

Production Design

Caroline Sandø

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Emma Balcázar

Assistant Director

Marit Jensen

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Ingolf Gabold

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Sven Clausen

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Anne-Marie Vidkjær

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Peter Nadermann

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Sven Clausen

Executive Producer

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Peter Nadermann

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Anne-Marie Vidkjær

Producer

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Rasmus Heise

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Wolfgang Feindt

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Torben Greve

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Søren B. Ebbe

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Leif Axel Kjeldsen

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Carsten Søsted

Editor

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Rasmus Lyhne

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Emil Sparre-Ulrich

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Pia Anthony

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Anita Helene Sejersen

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Stine Thaning

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Anne-Marie Ubbe

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Jacob Groth

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Martin Samsøe

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Phil Bricklebank

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Mai Brostrøm

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Mai Brostrøm

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Peter Thorsboe

Writer

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Peter Thorsboe

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Peter Thorsboe

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Mai Brostrøm

Idea

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Jacob Groth

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Stine Thaning

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Pia Anthony

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Lillan Larsen

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Birgitte Lassen

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Susan Salling

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Karen Maarbjerg

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Karen Maarbjerg

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Camilla Hansen

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Ellen Thomassen

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Palle Brix

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Caroline Sandø

Production Executive

Vibeke Reenberg

Production Executive

Tobias Brix

Production Executive

Marit Jensen

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Alice de Champfleury

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Klaus Bassiner

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