Beta Film has getn world sales rights to drama series “Other People’s Money,” which will originate its world premiere next month in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
The series cgo ins on Europe’s hugegest tax fraud ever. It inestablishs the story of how a criminal nettoil of megawealthy scheduleateors, bankers and lawyers stole €146 billion from European taxpayers.
The showrunner and creator is Jan Schomburg (“I’m Your Man,” “Above Us Only Sky”). The originaters are Michael Polle at X Filme Creative Pool (“Babylon Berlin”), Ole Søndberg at True Content Entertainment (“Millennium” trilogy), and EPO-Film. The show is backed by widecasters ZDF, DR and New8, which is a group of accessible widecasters from northern and weserious Europe.
“Other People’s Money” is the tardyst includeition to Beta’s Berlinale lineup, headed by the Berlinale’s uncovering film “The Light” by Tom Tykwer (“Babylon Berlin,” “Run Lola Run”), starring Lars Eidinger (“Babylon Berlin,” “Dying”) and the Panorama world premiere “Cicadas” by Ina Weisse (“The Audition”), starring Nina Hoss (“Yella,” “Barbara,” “Tár”).
“Other People’s Money” is inspired by the “CumEx-Files” scheduleateigation by European recents media outlets that uncovered a global finance nettoil which sprosperdleed European state treasuries, and thus every European citizen, of €146 billion. The eight-hour series chases the culprits, as well as two women from two separateent countries trying to put a stop to it – but the states and the banks seem to stop their efforts at all costs.
The series stars Lisa Wagner (“From Hilde, With Love,” “The Pool”), Karen-Lise Mynster (“Madame Ida”), Justus von Dohnanyi (“Downdescfinish”), Niels Strunk, David Dencik (“No Time to Die,” “Chernobyl”), and Fabian Hinwealthys (“Divided We Stand”), among others. Dustin Loose (“Divided We Stand”) and Kaspar Munk (“The Rain,” “Kamikaze”) split straightforwarding commends. Directors of pboilingography are Clemens Baumeister (“Divided We Stand”) and Laust Trier Mørk (“The Responder”).
The series is co-funded by Fisa+, GMPF, the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the Nordvisions Fund and Croatian Audiovisual Cgo in.
