Spinning audiences back to the mid-1970s, UFA Fiction’s latest period series “Disko 76” is set in a pivotal time in the industrial heartland of West Germany as a new American pop music craze takes over the airwaves and dance floors.
The six-part series, which premiered at the recent Berlinale Series Market, continues its international rollout at Series Mania in Lille before bowing on the Rtl+ streaming platform on March 28 and on Rtl Group channel Nitro on April 1.
UFA Fiction quickly won over Rtl+ with the idea from former UFA Fiction producer Benjamin Benedict of a family story set in the disco era, says fellow producer Sinah Swyter.
Boasting classic hits from the likes of Donna Summer, Abba, Kool and the Gang, Boney M. and many more, the series follows Doro (Luise Aschenbrenner), a rebellious young woman constricted by married life who finds freedom with the arrival of disco...
The six-part series, which premiered at the recent Berlinale Series Market, continues its international rollout at Series Mania in Lille before bowing on the Rtl+ streaming platform on March 28 and on Rtl Group channel Nitro on April 1.
UFA Fiction quickly won over Rtl+ with the idea from former UFA Fiction producer Benjamin Benedict of a family story set in the disco era, says fellow producer Sinah Swyter.
Boasting classic hits from the likes of Donna Summer, Abba, Kool and the Gang, Boney M. and many more, the series follows Doro (Luise Aschenbrenner), a rebellious young woman constricted by married life who finds freedom with the arrival of disco...
- 3/19/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Crime show “Divided We Stand,” which will premiere in Germany on the public broadcaster Ard on Feb. 22 with the title “Zerv,” screened this week at the European Film Market in the Berlinale Series Market Selects section. World sales are being handled by Beta Film.
The show, based on true events, follows a group of police officers from West Germany who are sent to Berlin to form a special investigations unit, called Zerv, which aims to root out crimes committed in the German Democratic Republic (Gdr) during the Communist era. However, as the officers dig deeper into the crimes in the East they start to find that many of them had originated in the West.
Speaking to Variety, exec producer Gabriela Sperl says the clash of cultures, values and ideologies was not only interesting, but also held the promise of some darkly comic moments as the West Germans try to “teach...
The show, based on true events, follows a group of police officers from West Germany who are sent to Berlin to form a special investigations unit, called Zerv, which aims to root out crimes committed in the German Democratic Republic (Gdr) during the Communist era. However, as the officers dig deeper into the crimes in the East they start to find that many of them had originated in the West.
Speaking to Variety, exec producer Gabriela Sperl says the clash of cultures, values and ideologies was not only interesting, but also held the promise of some darkly comic moments as the West Germans try to “teach...
- 2/15/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
"If you can survive this, nothing can kill you." The Match Factory has debuted an official promo trailer for the German indie drama O Beautiful Night, which is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival this month. The film marks the feature debut of Xaver Böhm, and it's a highly saturated, neon-lit, poetic journey into the existential realm. The plot is about a guy named Juri who encounters Death one night, who takes him on an Alice in Wonderland-esque trip upon which he falls in love with a woman named Nina. Noah Saavedra stars as Juri, Vanessa Loibl as Nina, and Marko Mandic as Death. I've already been hearing good things about this film at the festival, and this trailer definitely shows some promise. It seems a bit over-stylized at first, but I dig the existential dread and the trippy footage they share in this tease. Keep an eye on this one.
- 2/12/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Here’s an intriguing first trailer for Berlin Film Festival comedy-drama O Beautiful Night, which is produced by Toni Erdmann and Western outfit Komplizen Film and sold at the Efm by key European arthouse firm The Match Factory.
Xaver Böhm’s fun-looking feature debut, whose trailer has hints of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki, follows angsty character Juri. Although he’s young, Juri lives in constant fear of dying. Nightly panic attacks for him are routine, but one night he meets a dark figure who claims to be Death incarnate. So begins a bizarro Faustian trip together through the night, during which Juri meets Nina and falls in love with her. But come dawn, one of them must die. Böhm scripts the German-language pic with Ariana Berndl.
Starring are Noah Saavedra (Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden), Marko Mandic and Vanessa Loibl. Producers are Toni Erdmann writer-director Maren Ade...
Xaver Böhm’s fun-looking feature debut, whose trailer has hints of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki, follows angsty character Juri. Although he’s young, Juri lives in constant fear of dying. Nightly panic attacks for him are routine, but one night he meets a dark figure who claims to be Death incarnate. So begins a bizarro Faustian trip together through the night, during which Juri meets Nina and falls in love with her. But come dawn, one of them must die. Böhm scripts the German-language pic with Ariana Berndl.
Starring are Noah Saavedra (Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden), Marko Mandic and Vanessa Loibl. Producers are Toni Erdmann writer-director Maren Ade...
- 2/11/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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