Directors: Clark Johnson, Steve Shill, Gloria Muzio
Created by: David Simon
Script: Edward Burns, David Simon
Photography: Uta Briesewitz
Editors: Geraldine Peroni, Carrie Puchkoff, Kate Sanford
Sound: Bruce Litecky
Casting: Alexa L. Fogel C.S.A., Pat Moran
Principal Cast: Dominic West, John Doman, Idris Elba, Frankie R. Faison, Larry Gilliard Jr., Wood Harris, Sonja Sohn
Producer: Nina Kostroff-Noble
Co-Producer: Karen L. Thorson
Executive Producers: David Simon, Robert F. Colesberry
Production: The Wire Production for HBO
Distribution: Warner Bros. Int. Television Distribution
Tel: 0049 89 455 789 13
Fax: 0049 89 455 789 19
Internet: www.wbitv.com
First Broadcast: 06.06.02, 22.00, HBO
Selected Filmography David Simon: Young Again, 1986; In The Mood, 1987; Homicide: Life On The Streets, 1993; The Corner, 2000.
Gangland bosses, petty pushers, housing ‘projects’. In a bid against the current flood of glossy proceedings such as "CSI” and "Without A Trace”, HBO presents an optically outstanding, epic series which aims at nothing less than an accurate, multi-level depiction of US society. The first cycle of episodes take detective McNulty (Dominic West, ”Richard III”, ”Surviving Picasso”, ”A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) into the battle grounds of Baltimore’s drug war. Superbly researched and staged with impressive realism, "The Wire” offers a panoramic view across all social strata. As in Stephen Soderbergh’s "Traffic”, the main focus here isn’t on the criminal case as such, but on exploring a social complex were the paths of dealers, cops and politicians cross and entwine at all levels.