Pictured above: The ‘Das Boot’ crew – Colin Teevan (head writer of season 2), Tom Wlaschiha (actor), Clemens Schick (actor), Oliver Vogel (Bavaria Fiction chief creative officer and Ep on ‘Das Boot’), Vicky Krieps (actor), Rick Okon (actor).
Bavaria Fiction celebrated its latest TV productions at a glitzy soirée at Soho House in Berlin on Monday.
The powerhouse TV division of Bavaria Film has enjoyed huge success with “Das Boot” and its newest series, “Freud,” opened this year’s Berlinale Series sidebar. It’s also rolling out “Arctic Circle,” a Finnish-German coproduction, which recently premiered on Zdf.
Bavaria Fiction focuses largely on the German-speaking market but it’s looking to further expand its portfolio.
“We moved into international productions four years ago with ‘Das Boot,’ a hugely successful series, being sold to over 100 countries, including Hulu in the U.S.,” says Bavaria Fiction managing director Jan S. Kaiser.
“Das Boot” season two premieres on Sky in April.
Bavaria Fiction celebrated its latest TV productions at a glitzy soirée at Soho House in Berlin on Monday.
The powerhouse TV division of Bavaria Film has enjoyed huge success with “Das Boot” and its newest series, “Freud,” opened this year’s Berlinale Series sidebar. It’s also rolling out “Arctic Circle,” a Finnish-German coproduction, which recently premiered on Zdf.
Bavaria Fiction focuses largely on the German-speaking market but it’s looking to further expand its portfolio.
“We moved into international productions four years ago with ‘Das Boot,’ a hugely successful series, being sold to over 100 countries, including Hulu in the U.S.,” says Bavaria Fiction managing director Jan S. Kaiser.
“Das Boot” season two premieres on Sky in April.
- 2/25/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Finland has a reputation as a curious country filled with lakes, saunas and forests as well as the home of Santa Claus. Now it is hoping to be known for its ambitious television series with a swathe of big-budget dramas interesting international buyers and will be front and center at Mipcom in Cannes to demonstrate this.
Scandinavia has long been known for producing cutting edge scripted series such as Danish hits The Killing and The Bridge, Norway’s Lilyhammer and Skam and Sweden’s Wallander and Humans. However, despite many considering Finland a member of this gang, it is not actually part of Scandinavia, but rather part of the Nordic bloc with more in common with Iceland.
Finnish local producers are hoping that high-profile projects including a local Sherlock Holmes original, Sky-backed crime drama Bullets, sci-fi epic The White Wall and climate change thriller Sands of Sarasvati can replicate...
Scandinavia has long been known for producing cutting edge scripted series such as Danish hits The Killing and The Bridge, Norway’s Lilyhammer and Skam and Sweden’s Wallander and Humans. However, despite many considering Finland a member of this gang, it is not actually part of Scandinavia, but rather part of the Nordic bloc with more in common with Iceland.
Finnish local producers are hoping that high-profile projects including a local Sherlock Holmes original, Sky-backed crime drama Bullets, sci-fi epic The White Wall and climate change thriller Sands of Sarasvati can replicate...
- 10/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A strong showcase of German cinema was on offer at the Toronto Film Festival with a slew of films tackling such timely issues as sexual violence, the plight of refugees, the end of the Soviet Union and Germany’s recent turbulent history.
This year’s selections included works from such prominent names as Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Christian Petzold, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Sven Taddicken.
In Herzog and André Singer’s doc “Meeting Gorbachev,” the prolific filmmakers offer a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, and his lasting impact on world politics.
In “Searching for Ingmar Bergman,” which also unspools in the Tiff Docs sidebar, von Trotta explores the Swedish director’s cinematic legacy.
Von Donnersmarck, who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 2006’s “The Lives of Others,” revisits East Germany in “Never Look Away,” which follows the life of an artist struggling...
This year’s selections included works from such prominent names as Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Christian Petzold, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Sven Taddicken.
In Herzog and André Singer’s doc “Meeting Gorbachev,” the prolific filmmakers offer a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, and his lasting impact on world politics.
In “Searching for Ingmar Bergman,” which also unspools in the Tiff Docs sidebar, von Trotta explores the Swedish director’s cinematic legacy.
Von Donnersmarck, who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 2006’s “The Lives of Others,” revisits East Germany in “Never Look Away,” which follows the life of an artist struggling...
- 9/17/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
It starts with a rape. I won’t lie: I sighed thinking Sven Taddicken’s The Most Beautiful Couple was going to end up another drama about coping and retribution like most others wherein Liv (Luise Heyer) struggles as Malte (Maximilian Brückner) protects. So it was a welcome surprise when we’re moved past this harrowing prologue to meet the couple two years later working, smiling, and possibly healed in a bid to forget. Not only that, but Liv proves the one who wants to celebrate upon returning home from her final therapy session. She’s the one who’s ready to officially begin this next chapter of their lives while Malte is left stuck in his head — guilty, embarrassed, and impotent.
Taddicken isn’t averse to the complexities of the situation as presented or the psychological issues that arise from it. Liv and Malte were on vacation, had sex on the beach,...
Taddicken isn’t averse to the complexities of the situation as presented or the psychological issues that arise from it. Liv and Malte were on vacation, had sex on the beach,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Sven Taddicken’s “The Most Beautiful Couple,” which has its world premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Film Festival.
In the film Liv and Malte are forced to revisit their past when Malte spots the man who sexually assaulted Liv two years ago. While Liv yearns for acceptance and healing, Malte is trying to fight the urge for revenge. But will their love survive?
Taddicken says: “The premise of ‘The Most Beautiful Couple’ felt like a worst-case scenario for any loving couple. It was like a nightmare that kept haunting my thoughts. So I finally sat down and started to think it through, while wondering if there is a cure for that couple. I guess it’s that same energy that kept me writing that also keeps the audience tied to the film.”
Taddicken’s first feature,...
In the film Liv and Malte are forced to revisit their past when Malte spots the man who sexually assaulted Liv two years ago. While Liv yearns for acceptance and healing, Malte is trying to fight the urge for revenge. But will their love survive?
Taddicken says: “The premise of ‘The Most Beautiful Couple’ felt like a worst-case scenario for any loving couple. It was like a nightmare that kept haunting my thoughts. So I finally sat down and started to think it through, while wondering if there is a cure for that couple. I guess it’s that same energy that kept me writing that also keeps the audience tied to the film.”
Taddicken’s first feature,...
- 8/27/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
War Horse star Maximilian Brückner and Casino Royale's Clemens Schick are set to star in mystery crime drama Arctic Circle, a major Finnish-German drama co-production. The series, which is understood to have a budget of around €6.5 million ($7.5 million), is produced by Das Boot producer Bavaria Fiction and Finnish firm Yellow Film & TV. The 10-part series, set in Lapland, follows a Finnish policewoman who finds a nearly dead prostitute in a cabin in the wilderness…...
- 11/7/2017
- Deadline TV
Frauke Finsterwalder’s tragicomic Finsterworld and a new screen adaptation of the children’s classic Pinocchio are among five market premieres being unveiled by Munich-based Global Screen at next month’s Efm in Berlin.
Head of Theatrical Sales Julia Weber and her team will be showing Nadav Schirman’s The Green Prince in Berlin fresh from its world premiere as the opening film of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition last week.
The first deals on this Red Box/Passion Pictures production were concluded on Sundance’s first weekend with Curzon for the UK and Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.
In addition, the Munich-based sales agent will have premieres at the Efm of:
Arne Birkenstock’s documentary Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery, about Wolfgang Beltracchi, one of the biggest art forgers of all time. Birkenstock came into contact with Beltracchi through his father Reinhard Birkenstock who was one of the defence lawyers for the...
Head of Theatrical Sales Julia Weber and her team will be showing Nadav Schirman’s The Green Prince in Berlin fresh from its world premiere as the opening film of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition last week.
The first deals on this Red Box/Passion Pictures production were concluded on Sundance’s first weekend with Curzon for the UK and Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.
In addition, the Munich-based sales agent will have premieres at the Efm of:
Arne Birkenstock’s documentary Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery, about Wolfgang Beltracchi, one of the biggest art forgers of all time. Birkenstock came into contact with Beltracchi through his father Reinhard Birkenstock who was one of the defence lawyers for the...
- 1/21/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Frauke Finsterwalder’s tragicomic Finsterworld and a new screen adaptation of the children’s classic Pinocchio are among five market premieres being unveiled by Munich-based Global Screen at next month’s Efm in Berlin.
Head of Theatrical Sales Julia Weber and her team will be showing Nadav Schirman’s The Green Prince in Berlin fresh from its world premiere as the opening film of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition last week.
The first deals on this Red Box/Passion Pictures production were concluded on Sundance’s first weekend with Curzon for the UK and Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.
In addition, the Munich-based sales agent will have premieres at the Efm of:
Arne Birkenstock’s documentary Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery, about Wolfgang Beltracchi, one of the biggest art forgers of all time. Birkenstock came into contact with Beltracchi through his father Reinhard Birkenstock who was one of the defence lawyers for the...
Head of Theatrical Sales Julia Weber and her team will be showing Nadav Schirman’s The Green Prince in Berlin fresh from its world premiere as the opening film of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition last week.
The first deals on this Red Box/Passion Pictures production were concluded on Sundance’s first weekend with Curzon for the UK and Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.
In addition, the Munich-based sales agent will have premieres at the Efm of:
Arne Birkenstock’s documentary Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery, about Wolfgang Beltracchi, one of the biggest art forgers of all time. Birkenstock came into contact with Beltracchi through his father Reinhard Birkenstock who was one of the defence lawyers for the...
- 1/21/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
By Neil Pedley
Anyone not waiting on a ski lift (or screening) with bated breath in Utah can spend their time picking through a hodgepodge of some of the finest examples of genre excess you're likely to find. Bollywood goes to China, the slasher film goes 3D and the people behind "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" make zero effort not to telegraph what will likely end up the lamest rhyming gag ever.
"Chandni Chowk to China"
Warner Bros looks to establish a foothold in Bollywood with this action comedy, the first of a three-picture deal with Indian outfit People Tree Films. Directed by Nikhil Advani, "Chandni Chowk to China" is billed as the first Bollywood kung-fu comedy, a marriage of the traditional song-and-dance set-pieces with the underdog saga of a short order cook-turned-kung-fu master that owes that owes more than a nod to Stephen Chow. Akshay Kumar stars as Sidhu, a...
Anyone not waiting on a ski lift (or screening) with bated breath in Utah can spend their time picking through a hodgepodge of some of the finest examples of genre excess you're likely to find. Bollywood goes to China, the slasher film goes 3D and the people behind "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" make zero effort not to telegraph what will likely end up the lamest rhyming gag ever.
"Chandni Chowk to China"
Warner Bros looks to establish a foothold in Bollywood with this action comedy, the first of a three-picture deal with Indian outfit People Tree Films. Directed by Nikhil Advani, "Chandni Chowk to China" is billed as the first Bollywood kung-fu comedy, a marriage of the traditional song-and-dance set-pieces with the underdog saga of a short order cook-turned-kung-fu master that owes that owes more than a nod to Stephen Chow. Akshay Kumar stars as Sidhu, a...
- 1/12/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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