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We are very happy about the nomination of our Near Future Thriller “The House” with Tobias Moretti, Valery Tscheplanowa, Max von der Groeben, Lisa Vicari and many more at this year’s TeleVisionale for the Fernsehfilmpreis 2022 and the 3SatPublikumspreis 2022! The film was directed by Rick Ostermann. The screenplay was co-written by Patrick Brunken and Rick Ostermann based on a short story by Dirk Kurbjuweit. The film was produced in co-production with NDR and rbb in cooperation with Arte and was supported by MION Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.

Filming of our six-part series “The Roots of Evil” has begun in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Filming is also taking place in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Sachsen-Anhalt. Stephan Rick is directing, and head writer Catharina Junk and writer Elke Schuch are responsible for the screenplays.
An East German detective (Henriette Confurius) and her new partner from Hamburg (Fahri Yardim) follow a serial killer whose trail leads them into the dark depths of the German-German past. There they come across a previously undiscovered, bizarre series of murders.
RTL+ is on board as a partner and plans to show “The Roots of Evil” in 2023. Federation Entertainment will be responsible for international sales. The series is supported by MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, MV Filmförderung, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk Österreich and the German Motion Picture Fund (GMPF).

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