Keeping the Wolf Out

A gritty thriller set behind the Iron Curtain in 1960s HungaryBudapest, 1963. Special Investigator Bertalan Lazar and his wife, spymaster Franciska Lazar, face formidable challenges as they try to navigate a path through the dangerous underworld of Cold War-era Hungary. Catching the criminals is difficult enough, but there are other more threatening battles raging in higher places.In these 16 episodes, Bertalan must investigate the murder of a former member of the secret police, fight a turf war as he tries to find a child killer, probe a seemingly straightforward case of GBH that leads him to a rogue cop and enter the uncharted territory of Budapest's underground drugs scene after a rock musician is found dead.Written by Philip Palmer, this gripping, atmospheric drama expertly conjures up the tense, paranoid world of Communist Hungary, where dissidence was dangerous, the truth was hard to find and pursuing justice could get you killed. Leo Bill stars as Bertalan and Clare Corbett as Franciska, with Andy Linden as Tibor Farkas and Joseph Ayre as Jozsef Szabados.The episodes in this collection are:The Wolf The Old Days Behind the Wall Waiting by the River Heroes Gellert Hill Spider's Web Carnaby Street Gypsy Dancers Grandmother's Footsteps Mad Dog The Light of Dawn The Great Society Red Pen The Great Tree Gang The Magical Magyars Produced and directed by Toby Swift and Sasha YevtushenkoSound Design by Caleb KnightleyCastBertalan Lazar - Leo BillFranciska Lazar - Clare CorbettTibor Farkas - Andy LindenJozsef Szabados - Joseph AyreGizella - Nicola FergusonBela Fekete - Sargon YeldaMr Papp - Nick UnderwoodKitchen Porter - Richard PepplePolice Officer/Csaba - Sam RixLilien Racz - Adie AllenMilton Szilard - Philip FoxKristof Szep - Samuel JamesMr Kiraly - Robert BlytheWaiter/Peterke - Tom ForristerMrs Tolnay - Sanchia MacCormackStenographer - Kerry GoodersonDmitri Dragunov - Simon ScardifieldMark Meszaros - Michael BertenshawAndras Vasary - David HounslowPriest/Copper - Christopher HarperGyuri Varg/Fabenyi/Police officer/Partygoer - Kenny BlythDorina Varga - Helen ClappMinistry official/Police officer/Drug dealer/Partygoer - Chris PavloHanna Krivosik - Franchi WebbZsofia/Nurse 1 - Sarah OvensPuSomori Ziga - Debbie KorleyMrs Kovacs/Nurse 2/Receptionist - Susan JamesonGyozo Novak - Carl PrekoppFlorian Hevesi - Luke NunnSandor Boros - Stephen GreifPathologist - Jane WhittenshawCop/Detective - Stefan AdegbolaMother - Emma HandyKulcsar - Roger RingroseDraskovic - Ewan BaileyBilliards player/Prison officer - Ian Dunnett JnrHadik - Hasan DixonRichard Miklos/Karoly Miklos/Laska - Shaun MasonViolinist/Marton Kozma/Police Officer/Priest - Simon LuddersReka Kozma/Pathologist - Jane SlavinArchivist/Ioveanu - Tony TurnerOrsolya - Ria MarshallReceptionist - David Sturzaker(c) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd(P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd