EXCLUSIVE: German drama sequence I Am Scrooge has landed properties in North America, Europe and Australia forward of its world premiere at Seriencamp in Cologne this week.
Beta Movie has offered, which is from the German producer-distributor’s subsidiary Zeitsprung Footage, the RTL present to MHZ within the U.S. and Canada, SBS in Australia, DR in Denmark, TET in Latvia and RTL in Hungary. Launching on RTL+ in Germany later this 12 months, it can open Seriencamp on Wednesday (June 5).
I Am Scrooge is ready in West Berline in 1988, following Arno Funke, a person working beneath the alias ‘Scrooge McDuck’ who turns into the middle of one of the crucial spectacular extortion circumstances in German legal historical past. Funke, a failing artist, makes use of his expertise to construct bombs in his kitchen, detonating them in a single day at high-end division tales as leverage for extortion. Detectives are quickly on the circumstances, as Funke baggage greater than half 1,000,000 whereas fooling police together with his ‘Scrooge’ persona.
The true-life Funke, who The New Yorker labelled ‘The DuckTales Bandit’, will likely be in attendance on the premiere alongside lead actor Friedrich Mücke (Liberame, Funeral for a Canine), who portrays him within the sequence, and Sonja Gerhardt (Deutschland 89, Ku’Damm 63).
The sequence is directed by Hannu Salonen (Empire Oktoberfest) and likewise stars Mišel Matičević (Babylon Berlin) and Moritz Führmann (Easy methods to Promote Medication On-line (Quick)). Dominik Frankowski, Michael Souvignier and Until Derenbach are the producers, and Beta Movie handles worldwide distribution.
The premiere will likely be one of many highlights of Seriencamp this week, which begins tomorrow and runs by means of to Friday (June 7). Deadline will likely be on the bottom, moderating panels that includes the likes of ZDF Studios, the makers behind Apple TV+’s sci-fi drama Constellation and Annette Hess, the screenwriter behind the Ku’Damm sequence and the likes of We Kids from Bahnhof Zoo. Hess will likely be receiving the pageant’s first Deadline Disruptor Award, which honors excellent personalities from the German TV and movie enterprise which have outlined the business by means of excellency and by breaking limitations.