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Exclusive: More partners have joined Ard’s German political thriller series Dangerous Truth (Das Zweite Attentat).

Munich-based distributor OneGate Media and Bravado Equity, a subsidiary of Eric Welbers’ Bravado Media, have boarded as global distributor and gap financier, respectively. They join co-production partners Eikon Media, Wdr and Ard Degeto Film along with Deal Productions in Luxembourg for Ard.

Inspired by true events that took place in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the six-part, German-language drama centers around 35-year-old Alexander Jaromin, who for 20 years has been living with his mother in Athens under assumed identities in the witness protection program of the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bka) after his father and sister were killed in a terrorist attack. Tormented by the unknown, Alexander begins a desperate search to uncover the truth and soon finds himself under the close watch of the Federal Intelligence Service, with his...

Netflix’s Sleeping Dog (Schlafende Hunde) is an original German limited series that features a talented cast. Written by Christoph Darnstädt, this six-episode crime thriller follows the story of a fallen cop with amnesia who teams up with a rookie prosecutor to investigate a supposedly closed and solved murder case. The further they find themselves in the case the more they realize how entrenched it is in a conspiracy within the police department and the justice system, endangering them. Netflix’s Sleeping Dog is based on the 2016 Israeli series The Exchange Principle (Ikaron HaHachlafa) by Noah Stallman and Oden Davidoff.

This is Netflix’s second collaboration with Real Film Berlin, their first being the critically acclaimed limited series Unorthodox, which was adapted from a real-life story. While the six tumultuous episodes are full of gripping and moving storylines, much praise has also gone to the talented cast, who have all...

Okay, from what I can piece together, Christian Alvart and writer Christoph Darnstädt (Das Experiment) have brought a long running German detective show called "Tatort" to the big screen in a Bourne kind of way. The first trailer for the Pandorum director's latest German genre piece has emerged and, not surprisingly, it's pretty awesome.

Warner Brotehrs is poised to release the film overseas on February 4, 2016, but I have no information on domestical releasing.

Synopsis:

Action-packed and more elaborate than ever before, Til Schweiger plays forensic Chief Inspector Nick Tschill [Continued ...]...

Directed by: Paul Scheuring

Written by: Paul Scheuring, Mario Giordano, Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt, Don Bohlinger, Oliver Hirschbiegel

Cast: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr., Ethan Cohn, Fisher Stevens, Travis Fimmel, David Banner, Jason Lew, Damien Leake, Maggie Grace, Rod Maiorano

The Experiment, written and directed by Paul Scheuring, is the American remake of the 2001 German thriller/horror film Das Experiment. Oliver Hirschbeigal was behind the lens for the original with Mario Giordano having written both the screenplay and the novel it was based on, The Black Box. These works are based on true events that transpired during the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 at Stanford University under the charge of Psychology Professor Dr. Philip Zombardo, Ph.D. The goal of The Experiment was to study the psychological effects of becoming either a guard or a prisoner in prison.

The film opens with an all too familiar...