Ku’damm 77, the most recent installment within the long-running hit German interval drama sequence, may have its world premiere at this 12 months’s worldwide TV commerce honest MIPCOM, which runs Oct. 13–16.
The three-part historic drama, created and written by Annette Hess (The Weissensee Saga, Interpreter of Silence) and directed by Maurice Hübner (Kitz, Household Braun), continues the story of the Schöllack household, centered across the “Galant” dance faculty on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm. Set in 1977, the sequence follows three generations dwelling beneath one roof as they navigate themes of emancipation, self-discovery, and social change.
The returning solid contains Sonja Gerhardt, Maria Ehrich, Claudia Michelsen and Emilia Schüle, joined by new members Carlotta Bähre, Marie Louise Albertine Becker, Massiamy Diaby, Florian Stetter and Aziz Dyab.
The premiere will happen on Oct. 14 within the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals, with a screening adopted by a Q&A with the inventive staff and solid.
Ku’damm 77 follows the sooner sequence Ku’damm 56, Ku’damm 59 and Ku’damm 63, which have been scores successes in Germany and bought to greater than 30 territories worldwide. The franchise was beforehand nominated for an Worldwide Emmy. ZDF Studios is dealing with worldwide gross sales of the sequence.
Produced by UFA Fiction for ZDF, the sequence is overseen by producers Marc Lepetit, Nico Hofmann and Markus Brunnemann, with Heike Hempel, Bastian Wagner and Beate Bramstedt serving as commissioning editors at ZDF.
Markus Schäfer, president and CEO of ZDF Studios, referred to as the choice for a world premiere in Cannes “proof of the significance of German drama sequence on this top-class worldwide enviornment,” including that the corporate expects Ku’damm 77 to attain comparable success to earlier installments.
Lucy Smith, director of MIPCOM Cannes and MIPJunior, stated the franchise’s “genuine, common, and compelling storytelling has struck a chord with audiences,” and welcomed its return to the worldwide stage.
Final 12 months, MIPCOM Cannes drew greater than 10,500 delegates from greater than 100 nations, making it the biggest world marketplace for tv and streaming content material.