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Die UFA-Fiction-Produktion „Helgoland 513“ wurde beim 63. Monte-Carlo Television Festival mit dem Publikumspreis geehrt. „Wie extrem wird das Wetter, Sven Plöger“ gewann den Prince Rainier III Special Prize.

„Helgoland 513” (Credit: Sky Deutschland/UFA Fiction/Frédéric Batier)

„Helgoland 513”, eine Produktion von UFA Fiction für Sky, gewann beim 63. Monte-Carlo Television Festival den Publikumspreis. Die dystopische Geschichte erzählt in sieben Episoden von einer Gruppe Überlebender auf Helgoland nach der großen Katastrophe.Martina Gedeck und Alexander Fehling spielen die Hauptrollen. Sie war die letzte deutsche Produktion, die von dem Pay-tv-Sender noch selbst ausgewertet wurde. Ebenfalls freuen kann sich die Produktionsfirma Gruppe 5, die mit dem 45-minütigen Swr-Beitrag „Wie extrem wird das Wetter, Sven Plöger?“ (Buch & Regie: Luise Wagner; Redaktion: Christine Seidemann (Swr), Julia Küssendorf (Swr), Gabriele Trost (Swr) den Prince Rainier III Special Prize erhielt.

Die Nymphen für den besten Film und die beste Serie gingen nach Schweden beziehungsweise Großbritannien: „Little Did...

Viaplay Content Distribution has sold Sweden’s “Little Did I Know” – starring Alexandra Rapaport – to Australia (Sbs), Croatia (Pickbox), Basque Spain (Eitb), Indonesia (Mola) and Latin America (Dmd).

The film, which plays in competition this week at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, is produced by Bigster. It follows Petra (played by Rapaport), who is in for a rude awakening: her “perfect” husband, the father of her two children, is having an affair and he wants a divorce. Now in her 50s, she has to face the music. But she also can’t help thinking about her 15-year-old self (Ella Hammarsten Liedberg), full of hope and falling in love for the very first time.

The film, based on Martina Haag’s books, and her own story, is also directed by her.

“I used the best parts from my life [making this film]. And my friends’ lives! It’s easier to talk to the actors if...

“EastEnders” star Michelle Collins is making the leap from acting to production, and hopes to champion “working-class voices” in her projects.

During a panel at Content London on Thursday, Collins discussed the ins and outs of making the career transition alongside Sir Lenny Henry, Banijay U.K. CEO Patrick Holland, Marta Dusseldorp, Alexandra Rapaport, Gabija Siurbyte, Calle Jansson and Ernestas Jankauskas. Collins is currently back on BBC soap “EastEnders” as Cindy Beale, who was resurrected from the dead after 25 years, but said she recently went through a tough time in her career.

“I went to ‘EastEnders’ when I was 26, I stayed for 10 years and then I left and I was very successful. Had a very good agent, had lots of leading roles on primetime TV,” Collins said. “And then suddenly, as women who are actresses know, it kind of stopped. It’s weird. You don’t know when it does,...

Exclusive: Streamer Viaplay is once again looking beyond Scandi Noir by greenlighting a feature about a woman in two timelines, experiencing a messy divorce and difficult teenage years.

There’s Something Going On is based on the popular novels from Martina Haag and features well-regarded Swedish actors Alexandra Rapaport and Ella Hammarsten Liedberg in the dual title roles of Petra. Haag is adapting alongside Peter Arrhenius.

Petra is portrayed at two turning points of her life – the protagonist as a contemporary 50-year-old struggling through a divorce, and as a 15-year-old in the 1980s nearing the end of school while facing up to her own parents’ disintegrating relationship.

Shanti Roney (The Unlikely Murderer), Gustaf Hammarsten (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Jessica Liedberg (Together) and Adrian Macéus (The Truth Will Out) all feature in the film, which explores universal themes of love, angst and the search for oneself.

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Former “CSI” showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and producer Julie Weitz are in early development on two drama series: “Honor” for NBC and “Body Farm” for CBS.

“Honor” is based on “Heder,” the Swedish series created by Sofia Helin along with stars Julia Dufvenius, Anja Lundqvist and Alexandra Rapaport, which centered on a law firm that handles sexual crimes against women. The legal thriller will follow four women lawyers who fight for disenfranchised underdogs, going to great lengths to solve brutal crimes.

Mendelsohn and Weitz will executive produce for Carol Mendelsohn Productions. Jamie Pachino serves as a writer and executive produces alongside Maria Bello and Starlings Television’s Chris Philip and Karine Martin. Eccho Rights, the global distributor of “Heder,” also partners on the series.

“Body Farm” follows a New York City forensic pathologist who has fall from grace, leaving her almost unemployable. She ends up taking a job with an old-school...

Exclusive: Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) is set to debut a third season of its female-led crime drama series Honour on its Viaplay streaming service in 2022. Filming is set to start this autumn.

One of the most viewed Viaplay Originals so far, the drama has already been sold in 60 territories worldwide with four remakes in development.

A terrorist act connected to the Incel (‘involuntarily celibate’) subculture is the opener to the new season of Honour, in which the four partners of Stockholm law firm Heder (Honour) face unprecedented personal risks and ethical dilemmas. Their commitment to defending women’s rights and society’s most exploited people is stronger than ever but can their ideals survive.

Nordic talents returning for the series as leads and exec producers include Alexandra Rapaport (Gåsmamman), Eva Röse (Locked Down), Anja Lundqvist (Together) and Julia Dufvenius (Modus). Director will be Joakim Eliasson and producer is Bigster.

Sweden’s leading actresses – Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”), Alexandra Rapaport (“The Hunt”), Julia Dufvenius (“Molanders”) and Anja Lundqvist (“Modus”) – have joined forces to create and executive produce “Honour,” a contemporary thriller series following four daring lawyers fighting violence against women.

Sweden’s top local Svod service, Viaplay, has ordered the eight-part series, which Eccho Rights is representing in international markets. Stockholm-based company Bigster is producing the show, which is currently being shot and will be delivered next August.

Rapaport, Dufvenius and Lundqvist headline the series, along with Swedish TV host-actress Eva Röse, as four partners in a law firm called Heder (Swedish for “honor”) who have become famous for helping victims of sex crimes and speaking out against patriarchy.

“At a time when prostitution is moving off the streets and on to smartphones, hidden in the pocket of any man with access to the right app, ‘Honour’ is needed more than ever,...

A staple of the movie thriller has been the story of a person falsely accused. Suspense and drama are revved up as the hero (or heroine) pursues and tries to expose the true culprit all while trying to avoid those true criminals and the agents of law enforcement. It’s a theme that Alfred Hitchcock exploited in some of his greatest thrillers: Saboteur, North By Northwest, and one that was based on a true life story, The Wrong Man. Almost twenty years ago the feature film version of the TV classic The Fugitive was a box office smash. Now, from the distant land of Denmark comes Thomas Vinterberg’s take on this popular theme, The Hunt. But unlike our Dr. Richard Kimball, Mad Mikkelsen’s Lucas has not been convicted of a crime, so he’s not on the run. Indeed there’s been no crime at all, but almost...

Title: The Hunt Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Annika Wedderkopp, Alexandra Rapaport, Anne Louise Hassing, Susse Wold An unsettling, forthright drama about a man falsely accused of sexual child abuse, Danish import “The Hunt” is anchored by a painfully haunting turn from Mads Mikkelsen. Drawing from the McMartin Preschool scandal in Southern California, and similar cases of child abuse hysteria across the United States in the 1980s and ’90s, co-writer-director Thomas Vinterberg fashions a darkly gripping tale in which presumed guilt spreads like a virus, engulfing an entire small town. Having recently lost his job as a secondary school teacher, the divorced Lucas (Mikkelsen) [ Read More ]

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Indiewire's epic summer movie preview continues today with part 3 of our 5 part series highlight 50 indie films we think you should see this summer. Head back over to part 1 for a full introduction and the first batch of films and to part 2 for the previous set (both of which are, like below, listed in alphabetical order). The Hunt (July 12) Director: Thomas Vinterberg Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Alexandra Rapaport, Annika Wedderkopp Distributor: Magnolia Criticwire Average: 35 critics gave it a B average Why is it a "Must See"? Thomas Vinterberg's latest received a fair amount of critical praise upon its premiere at Cannes last year, including a Best Actor win for star Mads Mikkelsen. Now, almost a year later, the film has premiered in every major European market and has screenings at a variety of festivals since Cannes, including a North American premiere at Toronto, and its finally gearing up...

Festen director Thomas Vinterberg storms back to form with this drama about a teacher wrongfully accused of child abuse

As the nation recovers from its Newsnight affair, there could hardly be a more relevant movie than this new one from 43-year-old Danish director Thomas Vinterberg about a wrongful accusation of child abuse. Vinterberg has created a drama-thriller with the atmospheric grip of a horror film; there are echoes of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs and Lars von Trier's Dogville, but the film has its own exemplary power, maturity and intelligence. To see The Hunt is to be reminded of our own recent history: we watched as a flagship news programme suffered a spasm of misjudgment that could have been avoided with a Google image search, and as a TV interviewer solemnly handed to the prime minister his piece of paper, apparently under the impression...

After making big waves with his Dogme classic The Celebration in 1998, Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg has made a handful of flawed and underseen films, whether the genre be post-apocalyptic sci-fi (It’s All About Love) or a pseudo-Western about a group of gun-wielding pacifists (Dear Wendy), that have rendered him largely unnoticed as of late.

Let it be said that his newest work, The Hunt, will stand to change the tide. Starring Mads Mikkelsen in a decidedly, and impressively, domesticated role. Vinterberg takes his time with his narrative, looking into a very 21st century kind of witch hunt. Lucas (Mikkelsen) is a new teacher at a local kindergarten, recently divorced and at odds with his ex-wife over custody of their teenage son. He’s an engaged educator, interacting with the young children and developing close relationships with all of them.

Perhaps his closest relationship is with Klara (Annika Wedderkopp), daughter...