EXCLUSIVE: Extra companions have joined ARD‘s German political thriller collection Dangerous Truth (Das Zweite Attentat).
Munich-based distributor OneGate Media and Bravado Fairness, a subsidiary of Eric Welbers’ Bravado Media, have boarded as world distributor and hole financier, respectively. They be part of co-production companions EIKON Media, WDR and ARD Degeto Movie together with Deal Productions (Stargazer, Tamara) in Luxembourg for ARD.
Impressed by true occasions that passed off within the lead as much as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the six-part, German-language drama facilities round 35-year-old Alexander Jaromin, who for 20 years has been dwelling along with his mom in Athens below assumed identities within the witness safety program of the Federal Felony Police Workplace (BKA) after his father and sister have been killed in a terrorist assault. Plagued by the unknown, Alexander begins a determined search to uncover the reality and shortly finds himself below the shut watch of the Federal Intelligence Service, along with his life at risk as he results in a race in opposition to time during which he should do no matter it takes to uncover the reality.
Forged consists of Desirée Nosbusch (Dangerous Banks, Sisi), Jakob Diehl (All Quiet on the Western Entrance, The Forgotten Battle), Noah Saavedra (Spectre, Why Not You), Daniel Lommatzsch (Am Ende ist Man Tot, Tatort) and Deleila Piasko (Agent Hamilton, A Stasi Comedy).
The collection was filmed throughout Greece, Germany and Luxembourg and directed by The Swarm and Concordia director Barbara Eder alongside Hamburg-based director Philipp Osthus. Writers are Julia Neumann, Benjamin Karalic, Ulf Tschauder, and Christoph Darnstädt. Mario Krebs produces for EIKON, and Alexandra Hoesdorff and Désirée Nosbusch from Deal Productions are co-producers. Ole Landsjöaasen and Heike Stephan are additionally producers and editorial duty for the collection is held by Elke Kimmlinger from WDR and Christoph Pellander at ARD Degeto Movie. Help comes from Movie Basis NRW, German Movement Image Fund, Movie Fund Luxembourg and the Greek EKOME.
“In immediately’s market, new partnerships, strategic networks, and adaptability are important to have the ability to collaborate on top quality content material like Harmful Reality,” mentioned Tania Reichert-Facilides, CEO of OneGate Media, which is a part of Studio Hamburg Group and a gross sales subsidiary to the ARD community. “Our distribution experience teamed with Ernst Ludwig Ganzert at EIKON Media on manufacturing and Eric Welbers at Bravado on financing, makes for a robust collaboration. Each corporations have excellent reputations within the business, and we look ahead to sharing this unbelievable collection with the world.”
Former Beta exec Welbers launched Bravado in 2022 alongside David Kratz. “We’re always in search of high-quality productions with worldwide relevance,” he mentioned. “We firmly imagine that Harmful Reality meets these standards and might grow to be a world success story. We’re very excited concerning the partnership with OneGate Media, as our experiences and competencies completely complement one another for such a challenge.”
Eikon’s Ganzert added that the “themes and inventive execution of our collection are actually worldwide, and we’re assured that the collection will discover a world viewers with the help of OneGate Media and Bravado.”
