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COLLECTION · Series · 2009

The Protectors

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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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* 6.1 (8)CrimeDramaMysteryDenmark
Creators
Mai Brostrøm · Peter Thorsboe
Countries
Denmark
Studios
Danmarks Radio · DR
Runtime
55 min/ep
Release
01/01/2009
Score
6.1 / 10 (8)

Awards and nominations

  • Winner at International Emmy Award — The Protectors
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
10 episodes · 2009

All ten episodes from the first season of the Emmy award winning Danish drama created by Peter Thorsboe. Jasmina (Cecilie Stenspil), Rasmus (Søren Vejby) and Jonas (André Babikian) are the three newest members of the elite Personal Protection Unit based in Copenhagen who are tasked with guarding people recognised as potential targets for terrorist groups,…

Episode 1. Part 1
2009-01-01 · 55 min

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…

Episode 2. Part 2
2009-01-04 · 55 min

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…

Episode 3. Part 3
2009-01-11 · 55 min

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…

Episode 4. Part 4
2009-01-18 · 55 min

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…

Episode 5. Part 5
2009-01-25 · 55 min

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…

Episode 6. Part 6
2009-02-01 · 55 min

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…

Episode 7. Part 7
2009-02-08 · 55 min

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…

Episode 8. Part 8
2009-02-15 · 55 min

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…

Episode 9. Part 9
2009-02-22 · 55 min

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…

Episode 10. Part 10
2009-03-01 · 55 min

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…

Season 2
Season 2
10 episodes · 2010

As the second gripping series of The Protectors begins, Denmark is still shaken by the outrage caused in the Islamic world over the publication of a Muhammad cartoon in a Danish newspaper. The Protection Unit of the Danish Intelligence Bureau is faced with a precarious mission, when the Foreign Minister moves to re-open the embassy in Islamabad, closed…

Episode 1. Part 11
2010-01-03 · 55 min

Morten Nyholm, whose wife is high-pregnant again, and Jasmina, are sent to Islamabad in advance of the Danish foreign minister's visit, Jonas and Rasmus are ordered to guard Preben Pedersen, the cartoonist who offended Muslims by…

Episode 2. Part 12
2010-01-10 · 55 min

A Taliban bomb explodes in the hotel in Islamabad where Morten Nyholm and Jasmine are staying. Jonas and Rasmus are bored babysitting the depressed cartoonist Preben Pedersen.

Episode 3. Part 13
2010-01-17 · 55 min

The Danish foreign minister's next visit is to Moskow. PET sends along Rasmus and Jonas, who is delighted to meet up with reporter Tatyana 'Tanya' Zimakova, a former date. Benedikte Tønnesen, nicknamed "Tønne" , head of the Danish…

Episode 4. Part 14
2010-01-24 · 55 min

Russian reporter Tatyana Zimakova seeks political asylum in Denmark but can she be protected against her ennemies? The problems caused by the love affair between CIA agent Shane and Tønnesen are getting worse.

Episode 5. Part 15
2010-01-31 · 55 min

Foreign minister Margrethe Korch is supposed to retire 'for personal reasons' after a grand birthday party. One of the main candidates to replace her is capable MP Thomas Eriksen. Leon and Claudia are getting married.

Episode 6. Part 16
2010-02-07 · 55 min

The PM is ready to nominate MP Thomas Eriksen as new justice minister in a reshuffle. PET however feels it necessary to clear up his baby's kidnapping,

Episode 7. Part 17
2010-02-14 · 55 min

Jonas attends the Moscow funeral of his lover Tatyana 'Tanya' Zimakova. The team is assigned to guard the charismatic Croatian nun Sister Abraham, author of a book on pacifist forgiveness.

Episode 8. Part 18
2010-02-21 · 55 min

The PET team finds out that the hotel's German waiter Klaus Maria Grashoff may still be planning an attempt on Sister Abraham.

Episode 9. Part 19
2010-02-28 · 55 min

Jonas gets a phone call from Robin Tim, a Danish ex-policeman who is involved in criminal activities in Congo and is imprisoned there because he killed a cop. Robin tells Jonas about plans for an assassination at the upcoming Climate…

Episode 10. Part 20
2010-03-07 · 55 min

Leon and Jonas return home after they prevailed over the Congolese criminal gang, guarding the corpse of Robin Tim, which contains priceless diamonds.

Cast by season
André Babikian
André Babikian
Jonas Goldschmidt
Cecilie Stenspil
Cecilie Stenspil
Jasmina El-Murad
Søren Vejby
Søren Vejby
Rasmus Poulsen
Thomas W. Gabrielsson
Thomas W. Gabrielsson
Leon Hartvig Jensen
Ditte Gråbøl
Ditte Gråbøl
Diana Pedersen
Rasmus Bjerg
Rasmus Bjerg
'Lille Kurt' Birk
Ellen Hillingsø
Ellen Hillingsø
Benedikte 'Tønne' Tønnesen
Tommy Kenter
Tommy Kenter
Jørgen Boas
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