German actors larking about in National Trust settings on TV have a tradition in Germany that goes back to the 1960s, with a series of more than 40 detective stories based on the works of the crime writer Edgar Wallace.Ĭornwall, in particular, is what the Anglo-German cultural historian Rüdiger Görner calls one of the prime destinations of “German yearnings for ‘being elsewhere’”. While the films are set across the strip of land, there are go-to spots that now form part of the sightseeing circuit for German tourists, such as the Bedruthan Steps beach, the cliffs at Land’s End and Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan manor house overlooking Padstow Harbour, whose owner, Peter Prideaux-Brune, has appeared in Pilcher dramas in cameos as a chauffeur, a coroner and a gin taster.Ī 2004 Pilcher adaptation filmed at Prideaux Place, Padstow. Wie verhext is an exception in respect of the latter, allowing a lingering glimpse of a bare male chest worthy of Poldark, Britain’s own Cornish romance drama. In the Sunday night slot, the films compete with Germany’s long-running police procedural Tatort, and try to offer an antidote, with no violence, reliably happy endings and only the chastest of sex scenes. The secret of the Pilcher films’ German success, he said, was their escapism: “They evoke romantic ideas of English traditions that don’t exist in Germany.” With pandemic travel restrictions likely to ease in coming months, Smeaton said he hoped to make a further four Pilcher films in Cornwall before the end of the year, even if post-Brexit red tape meant additional paperwork for the equipment his crews regularly brought over on the Calais-Dover ferry. With Pilcher’s back catalogue comprehensively translated to the small screen, recent films have started to mine the short stories and story fragments discovered after the author’s death in February 2019, aged 94. FFP New Media has a permanent office in Newquay and regularly employs about 300 freelancers in the south-western county, one of the poorest regions in the UK. Since then, Smeaton has produced between four and six Pilcher adaptations a year, with roughly half his company’s filmic output bearing the author’s name. Rosamunde Pilcher at a garden party at the residence of the British ambassador in Berlin.
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