| BeTipul | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Hagai Levi |
| Starring | Assi Dayan Gila Almagor Meirav Gruber Ayelet Zurer Lior Ashkenazi Maya Maron Alma Zack Rami Heuberger Moni Moshonov Asi Levi Niv Zilberberg Tali Sharon |
| Theme music composer | Avi Belleli |
| Country of origin | Israel |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 80 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | HOT3 |
| Original run | August 28, 2005 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | In Treatment, In Therapie, În Derivă, Na terapiji |
| External links | |
| Website | |
BeTipul (Hebrew: בטיפול; lit. In Treatment) is an Israeli television drama revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself. [1]
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As of 2009, two seasons have been produced, with co-creator Hagai Levi working on a spin-off program in a format similar to the Up series.[2] The program has been adapted for audiences in the United States, Serbia and the Netherlands.
In the first season, the cast included Assi Dayan as Dagan, Gila Almagor as Dagan's own therapist and mentor, Meirav Gruber as his wife, and Ayelet Zurer, Lior Ashkenazi, Maya Maron, Alma Zack and Rami Heuberger as his patients. The first season was directed by Nir Bergman, Hagai Levi, Ori Sivan and Uzi Weill. Scriptwriters were Ari Folman and Asaf Zippor.
In the second season, which began in January 2008, a female therapist was considered for the leading role, but the idea was dropped. Dagan remained the main character. Zack, Heuberger and Almagor continued in their roles from the previous season. Other actors joining the cast were Moni Moshonov, Asi Levi, Niv Zilberberg and Tali Sharon.
BeTipul in its first season won all the Israeli Academy Awards for a drama series, including Best Drama Series, Best Actor and Best Actress given to Dayan and Zurer, Best Script and Best Directing. Maron and Zack were also nominated for Best Actress. In its second season, it was nominated for Best Drama, along with 7 other nominations. Dayan won again the Best Actor award and Levi and Zack both won a Best Actress award. Season 2 also won the Best Script award.
An American adaptation entitled In Treatment premiered January 28, 2008 on the American cable network HBO to critical and audience acclaim. The show stars Gabriel Byrne as Dr. Paul Weston, the equivalent character to Reuven Dagan and Dianne Wiest as Gina, Paul's own therapist. Hagai Levi, co-creator of the original show, is one of the executive producers on the American version.[3]
In April 2009, HBO's Central Europe division acquired format rights for "BeTipul" from Dori Media Group. It was announced that HBO will produce local versions of the series in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova, for transmission on its channels throughout the region, and that Hagai Levi will serve as its executive producer. The Romanian version was the first to be produced. With Marcel Iureş in the title role and under the name of În Derivă, it premiered on December 6, 2009, on HBO. [4] Czech version aired on Czech HBO in 2011 under the name Terapie (Therapy).[5] The Polish version premiered on October 17, 2011, on HBO under the title Bez tajemnic (Without Secrets), starring Jerzy Radziwiłowicz in the main role.
Na terapiji is a title of Serbian adaptation. It premiered October 19, 2009 on the Fox Televizija. The main actor is Predrag Miki Manojlović as Dr. Ljubomir. The cast also includes: Snežana Bogdanović, Sergej Trifunović, Nenad Jezdić, Tamara Vučković, Nataša Janjić and Dragana Dabović as his patients and Branka Cvitković as Ljubomir's own therapist.[6]
Na terapiji is a title of Slovenian adaptation. It premiered on September 26, 2011 on POP Brio. The main actor is Igor Samobor as Dr. Roman. The cast also includes: Maša (Jana Župančič), Matej (Marko Mandić), Zarja (Nika Mansevski), Dana (Maša Drganc), Aleš (Dejan Spasič) and Silva Čušin as his patients and Ema as Roman's own therapist.
The title of the Dutch adaptation is In therapie. It premiered on July 26th 2010. The director is Alain de Levita. The therapist is played by Jacob Derwig. The other characters are played by Carice van Houten, Elsie de Brauw, Halina Reijn, Dragan Bakema, Gaite Jansen, Frederik Brom, and Kim van Kooten (Derwig's real life wife). The second season of the series aired at July 25th 2011 with Paul as a patient instead of the psychologist, who is played by Peter Blok.