Spinning audiences back to the mid-1970s, UFA Fiction’s latest period series “Disko 76” is set in a pivotal time in the industrial heartland of West Germany as a new American pop music craze takes over the airwaves and dance floors.
The six-part series, which premiered at the recent Berlinale Series Market, continues its international rollout at Series Mania in Lille before bowing on the Rtl+ streaming platform on March 28 and on Rtl Group channel Nitro on April 1.
UFA Fiction quickly won over Rtl+ with the idea from former UFA Fiction producer Benjamin Benedict of a family story set in the disco era, says fellow producer Sinah Swyter.
Boasting classic hits from the likes of Donna Summer, Abba, Kool and the Gang, Boney M. and many more, the series follows Doro (Luise Aschenbrenner), a rebellious young woman constricted by married life who finds freedom with the arrival of disco...
The six-part series, which premiered at the recent Berlinale Series Market, continues its international rollout at Series Mania in Lille before bowing on the Rtl+ streaming platform on March 28 and on Rtl Group channel Nitro on April 1.
UFA Fiction quickly won over Rtl+ with the idea from former UFA Fiction producer Benjamin Benedict of a family story set in the disco era, says fellow producer Sinah Swyter.
Boasting classic hits from the likes of Donna Summer, Abba, Kool and the Gang, Boney M. and many more, the series follows Doro (Luise Aschenbrenner), a rebellious young woman constricted by married life who finds freedom with the arrival of disco...
- 3/19/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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Benjamin Benedict, one of Germany’s leading producers of high-end TV drama, has joined German mini-major Leonine Studios.
As of Nov. 1, Benedict will join the management team of Leonine-owned W&b Television and run the production outfit together with Oliver Vogel, Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg.
Benedict is currently managing director at German TV powerhouse UFA Fiction, where his small-screen success stories include period dramas Charite, Ku’Damm and the International Emmy-winning miniseries Generation War.
W&b Television, set up by The Lives of Others producer Wiedemann and Berg, has produced such cutting-edge series as Netflix’s time-traveling mystery drama Dark, gangster thriller 4 Blocks for TNT/Turner in Germany, as well as Sky’s crime mystery horror series Pagan Peak. The group is currently in production on the Amazon Prime series The Gryphon, an adaptation of Wolfgang Hohlbein’s fantasy bestseller.
Leonine, which is...
Benjamin Benedict, one of Germany’s leading producers of high-end TV drama, has joined German mini-major Leonine Studios.
As of Nov. 1, Benedict will join the management team of Leonine-owned W&b Television and run the production outfit together with Oliver Vogel, Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg.
Benedict is currently managing director at German TV powerhouse UFA Fiction, where his small-screen success stories include period dramas Charite, Ku’Damm and the International Emmy-winning miniseries Generation War.
W&b Television, set up by The Lives of Others producer Wiedemann and Berg, has produced such cutting-edge series as Netflix’s time-traveling mystery drama Dark, gangster thriller 4 Blocks for TNT/Turner in Germany, as well as Sky’s crime mystery horror series Pagan Peak. The group is currently in production on the Amazon Prime series The Gryphon, an adaptation of Wolfgang Hohlbein’s fantasy bestseller.
Leonine, which is...
- 9/27/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Constantin Television (We Children from Bahnhof Zoo) and UFA Fiction (Deutschland 83) are underway on new German-language drama series Eldorado KaDeWe (w/t), which will be directed by Julia von Heinz, director of Germany’s 2020 Oscar entry And Tomorrow the Entire World.
Made in co-production with Ard Degeto and Rbb, the series is set in Berlin during the Roaring Twenties. The city is dominated by political unrest, inflation and increasing political radicalization but is also a modern metropolis in whose vibrant nightlife emancipation, sexual diversity and social utopias blossom. The drama focuses on the famous luxury department store, KaDeWe at Wittenbergplatz, founded and successfully run by the Jewish entrepreneurial family Jandorf. It is here that the lives of Hedi, Fritzi, Harry and Georg cross paths.
The six-part high-end series is being filmed in Budapest and Berlin and above is a first-look image. Starring are Valerie Stoll, Lia von Blarer, Joel Basman and Damian Thüne.
Made in co-production with Ard Degeto and Rbb, the series is set in Berlin during the Roaring Twenties. The city is dominated by political unrest, inflation and increasing political radicalization but is also a modern metropolis in whose vibrant nightlife emancipation, sexual diversity and social utopias blossom. The drama focuses on the famous luxury department store, KaDeWe at Wittenbergplatz, founded and successfully run by the Jewish entrepreneurial family Jandorf. It is here that the lives of Hedi, Fritzi, Harry and Georg cross paths.
The six-part high-end series is being filmed in Budapest and Berlin and above is a first-look image. Starring are Valerie Stoll, Lia von Blarer, Joel Basman and Damian Thüne.
- 8/4/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Germany’s Zdf Enterprises has acquired global distribution rights to three-part period drama “Ku’damm 63,” the third instalment in one of Zdfe’s best-selling franchises, which has been licensed to more than 30 broadcasters around the globe.
Produced by UFA Fiction for German public broadcaster Zdf and made up of three 90-minute episodes, the miniseries will be presented shortly to select buyers.
Set to premiere on Zdf on March 21, 22 and 24, airing at a peak primetime time of 8.15 p.m., “Ku’damm 63” marks a followup to “Ku’damm 56,” which premiered on Zdf in 2016, reaching up to 6.35 million viewers and a 19.6% market share, and “Ku’damm 59,” which bowed in March 2018.
The series’ premise remains the same: the story of Germany’s halting evolution toward larger justice and liberty told through the loves, hard-won freedoms and suffering of three sisters, Monika, Helga and Eva, daughters of a conservative matriarch.
Time has moved on, creating a contrast.
Produced by UFA Fiction for German public broadcaster Zdf and made up of three 90-minute episodes, the miniseries will be presented shortly to select buyers.
Set to premiere on Zdf on March 21, 22 and 24, airing at a peak primetime time of 8.15 p.m., “Ku’damm 63” marks a followup to “Ku’damm 56,” which premiered on Zdf in 2016, reaching up to 6.35 million viewers and a 19.6% market share, and “Ku’damm 59,” which bowed in March 2018.
The series’ premise remains the same: the story of Germany’s halting evolution toward larger justice and liberty told through the loves, hard-won freedoms and suffering of three sisters, Monika, Helga and Eva, daughters of a conservative matriarch.
Time has moved on, creating a contrast.
- 2/24/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has acquired the rights to German period hospital drama series “Charité” in multiple territories, including the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia. The show is produced by Ufa, whose credits include “Generation War,” “Deutschland 83” and “Ku’damm 56 – Rebel With a Cause.”
In a deal with sales agent Global Screen, the streaming giant has taken rights to the six-part production in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and German-speaking Europe. The series delivered stellar ratings for Germany’s public broadcaster Ard/Das Erste when it premiered last year. The first two episodes reached more than 8.41 million viewers and an audience share of 25.9%, delivering the best performance of a primetime series in 13 years and the most successful launch of a series in more than 25 years for Ard/Das Erste.
The series is set in Berlin in 1888. After penniless Ida is operated on as a patient at the Charité Hospital,...
In a deal with sales agent Global Screen, the streaming giant has taken rights to the six-part production in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and German-speaking Europe. The series delivered stellar ratings for Germany’s public broadcaster Ard/Das Erste when it premiered last year. The first two episodes reached more than 8.41 million viewers and an audience share of 25.9%, delivering the best performance of a primetime series in 13 years and the most successful launch of a series in more than 25 years for Ard/Das Erste.
The series is set in Berlin in 1888. After penniless Ida is operated on as a patient at the Charité Hospital,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
‘After ten TV-movies and twelve films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once.’
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Michael Haneke
Multiple Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke is lining up his first TV series, partnering with FremantleMedia’s Ufa Fiction on the 10-part drama Kelvin’s Book.
The story takes place in a dystopian world set in the near future as a group of young people experience an emergency landing outside their home and are confronted with the actual face of their home country for the first time.
Nico Hofmann and Benjamin Benedict will serve as executive producers on the series for Ufa Fiction.
“After ten TV-movies and twelve films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once,” Haneke said.
Haneke won consecutive Palme d’Or awards for The White Ribbon and Amour, which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film, and won two BAFTA awards. The White Ribbon...
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Michael Haneke
Multiple Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke is lining up his first TV series, partnering with FremantleMedia’s Ufa Fiction on the 10-part drama Kelvin’s Book.
The story takes place in a dystopian world set in the near future as a group of young people experience an emergency landing outside their home and are confronted with the actual face of their home country for the first time.
Nico Hofmann and Benjamin Benedict will serve as executive producers on the series for Ufa Fiction.
“After ten TV-movies and twelve films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once,” Haneke said.
Haneke won consecutive Palme d’Or awards for The White Ribbon and Amour, which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film, and won two BAFTA awards. The White Ribbon...
- 1/29/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
‘After ten TV-movies and twelve films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once.’
Multiple Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke is lining up his first TV series, partnering with FremantleMedia’s Ufa Fiction on the 10-part drama Kelvin’s Book.
The story takes place in a dystopian world set in the near future and is understood will reflect on the digital age. Nico Hofmann and Benjamin Benedict will serve as executive producers on the series for Ufa Fiction.
“After ten TV-movies and twelve films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once,” Haneke said.
Haneke won consecutive Palme d’Or awards for The White Ribbon and Amour, which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film, and won two BAFTA awards. The White Ribbon earned two Oscar nods. Haneke’s credits include Funny Games, The Piano Teacher and Caché.
“No contemporary director has moved and inspired memore than Michael Haneke,” Ufa CEO Hofmann...
Multiple Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke is lining up his first TV series, partnering with FremantleMedia’s Ufa Fiction on the 10-part drama Kelvin’s Book.
The story takes place in a dystopian world set in the near future and is understood will reflect on the digital age. Nico Hofmann and Benjamin Benedict will serve as executive producers on the series for Ufa Fiction.
“After ten TV-movies and twelve films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once,” Haneke said.
Haneke won consecutive Palme d’Or awards for The White Ribbon and Amour, which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film, and won two BAFTA awards. The White Ribbon earned two Oscar nods. Haneke’s credits include Funny Games, The Piano Teacher and Caché.
“No contemporary director has moved and inspired memore than Michael Haneke,” Ufa CEO Hofmann...
- 1/29/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
After first being mooted here in Cannes three years ago, Beta Film’s 10-part Adolf Hitler miniseries is getting closer to production. France’s TF1 has come aboard the project (working title: Hitler) which is being developed with Ufa Fiction in co-production with Beta Film for Germany’s Rtl. Generation War‘s Benjamin Benedict and Joachim Kosack are producing. Based on historian Thomas Weber’s book Hitler’s First War, it aims to shed unprecedented light on one of history’s…...
- 10/4/2015
- Deadline TV
In the year that we commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I, the BBC have looked beyond the devastation of this earlier conflict to World War II, and the war on the Eastern Front with original German drama series Generation War.
In the swirling chaos of the World War, Generation War crafts a tragic and intimate story of the lives of five friends who are impacted by the events of the German invasion of Russia.
For part two of our Generation War special feature, HeyUGuys had the privilege to speak with producer Benjamin Benedict who discussed with us the birth of the series from an idea between two men, the importance of history and the role of storytelling in bringing history to life as well as reflecting on the evolving relationship between television and film. Read our interview with Volker Bruch here.
But before the interview got underway it...
In the swirling chaos of the World War, Generation War crafts a tragic and intimate story of the lives of five friends who are impacted by the events of the German invasion of Russia.
For part two of our Generation War special feature, HeyUGuys had the privilege to speak with producer Benjamin Benedict who discussed with us the birth of the series from an idea between two men, the importance of history and the role of storytelling in bringing history to life as well as reflecting on the evolving relationship between television and film. Read our interview with Volker Bruch here.
But before the interview got underway it...
- 5/12/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cologne, Germany – German producer Teamworx is getting medieval on their assets, picking up the film and TV rights to 14th century historical novel The Pilgrim from Iny Lorentz.
The Pilgrim tells the story of Tilla, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who, to escape the restrictions of her life, disguises herself as a man and makes a pilgrimage half way across Europe to Santiago in Spain.
Producer Benjamin Benedict acquired the rights to The Pilgrim for Teamworx and said he plans to turn the book into a two-part miniseries.
The TV-movie version of another Lorentz bestseller, Die Wanderhure (The Wandering Whore), was a huge success earlier this year, drawing nearly 10 million viewers on its premiere on German commercial network Sat.1.
The Pilgrim tells the story of Tilla, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who, to escape the restrictions of her life, disguises herself as a man and makes a pilgrimage half way across Europe to Santiago in Spain.
Producer Benjamin Benedict acquired the rights to The Pilgrim for Teamworx and said he plans to turn the book into a two-part miniseries.
The TV-movie version of another Lorentz bestseller, Die Wanderhure (The Wandering Whore), was a huge success earlier this year, drawing nearly 10 million viewers on its premiere on German commercial network Sat.1.
- 11/11/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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