Produced with a big budget about EUR40 million, which makes it the most expensive German TV production (in English language) of all time, it had its world premiere at 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in Berlinale Series on 19 February 2023 and screened out of competition. The global environmental thriller is set in the present day , where anomalies and unnatural behavior in marine animals are causing upheaval all over the world. The Swarm follows a global group of scientists who come together to tackle one of the biggest challenges mankind has ever faced when whales destroy boats, deep-sea crabs attack beaches, mussels paralyze container ships. Unknown species exist in the sea and this swarm intelligence is attacking mankind . A formerly unknown ice worm destabilizes continental slopes in the oceans and triggers tsunamis , finally a deadly pathogen is spreading from the coasts in drinking water . The traces lead them with their research ship into the eternal ice of the Arctic Ocean . Some scientists make the chilling discovery that deep at the bottom of the sea resides a collective intelligence which has suffered the ravages of civilization on its habitat and decided to fight back.
Enjoyable thriller with echoes of science fiction including state-of-art special effects , dealing with the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth , set in a possible present on the verge of environmental catastrophe . It deals with a team of scientists facing off a terrible world disaster , in which more and more people in the world are in mortal danger ; on the feverish search for the causes of the mysterious phenomena , the small group of international scientists comes together and the previously unthinkable eventually becomes a certainty , but hardly anyone believes the researchers and so the group dares to go on a life-threatening mission on their own . It is an ambitious German blockbuster developed by Frank Doelger , one of the main executive producers of the successful series ¨Games of Thrones¨ . Winner of six Emmy Awards, he is also behind great American productions for television such as ¨John Adams¨ and ¨Rome¨ . This miniseries adapts the best-selling novel by German Frank Schätzing : ¨Der Schwarm¨ translated into 27 languages and with more than 4.5 million copies sold in Germany alone . Adding an interesting script written by Steven Lally, Marissa Lestrade, Chris Lunt and Michael A. Walker in consultation with experts, such as polar and deep-sea researcher Professor Antje Boetius, from the Alfred Wegener Institute, and Dr Jon Copley, professor of Ocean Exploration from the University of Southampton. The European , Japanese and American cast give decent performances, though mostly unknown to the general public, this good cast includes the following : Alexander Karim , Cécile de France , Leonie Benesch , Joshua Odjick , Kimura , Takehiro Hira , and veteran Barbara Sukowa , among others .
The series based on a best-seller novel was produced by ZDF within the framework set by the European Alliance, with France Télévisions and RAI, and in co-production with ORF, SRF, Viaplay Group and Hulu Japan who formed the joint venture 'Schwarm TV Productions GmbH & Co KG . This is the most expensive German TV series of all time , titled : The Swarm (international title) , Abysses (Canada) , Der Schwarm (Austria) , Enxame (Brazil), El Quinto Dia (Spain) and Der Schwarm (Germany) , being well directed by Barbara Eder, Luke Watson and Philipp Stölzl .
Enjoyable thriller with echoes of science fiction including state-of-art special effects , dealing with the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth , set in a possible present on the verge of environmental catastrophe . It deals with a team of scientists facing off a terrible world disaster , in which more and more people in the world are in mortal danger ; on the feverish search for the causes of the mysterious phenomena , the small group of international scientists comes together and the previously unthinkable eventually becomes a certainty , but hardly anyone believes the researchers and so the group dares to go on a life-threatening mission on their own . It is an ambitious German blockbuster developed by Frank Doelger , one of the main executive producers of the successful series ¨Games of Thrones¨ . Winner of six Emmy Awards, he is also behind great American productions for television such as ¨John Adams¨ and ¨Rome¨ . This miniseries adapts the best-selling novel by German Frank Schätzing : ¨Der Schwarm¨ translated into 27 languages and with more than 4.5 million copies sold in Germany alone . Adding an interesting script written by Steven Lally, Marissa Lestrade, Chris Lunt and Michael A. Walker in consultation with experts, such as polar and deep-sea researcher Professor Antje Boetius, from the Alfred Wegener Institute, and Dr Jon Copley, professor of Ocean Exploration from the University of Southampton. The European , Japanese and American cast give decent performances, though mostly unknown to the general public, this good cast includes the following : Alexander Karim , Cécile de France , Leonie Benesch , Joshua Odjick , Kimura , Takehiro Hira , and veteran Barbara Sukowa , among others .
The series based on a best-seller novel was produced by ZDF within the framework set by the European Alliance, with France Télévisions and RAI, and in co-production with ORF, SRF, Viaplay Group and Hulu Japan who formed the joint venture 'Schwarm TV Productions GmbH & Co KG . This is the most expensive German TV series of all time , titled : The Swarm (international title) , Abysses (Canada) , Der Schwarm (Austria) , Enxame (Brazil), El Quinto Dia (Spain) and Der Schwarm (Germany) , being well directed by Barbara Eder, Luke Watson and Philipp Stölzl .