Zdf Enterprises has sold the two-part drama “Ottilie von Faber-Castell” to broadcasters across Europe and to Globi, an up-and-coming AVOD streamer covering North America.
The miniseries, a story about a brilliant young woman navigating the pitfalls of 19th century business, family and forbidden love, has been picked up by Italy’s Rai 1, where it earned top ratings with an audience of more than 2.8 million. The show recently also enjoyed great success on Rtp in Portugal, where it performed higher than the average for the time slot.
Other licensees include Yle (Finland), Rtv (Slovenia), Rtvs (Slovakia), Ltv (Latvia), Network 4 (Hungary), Inter TV (Ukraine), Etv (Estonia) and Lrt (Lithuania).
Robert Franke, vice-president Zdfe.drama, Zdfd Enterprises, said: “Great storytelling travels and has the ability to win over audiences across different cultures, as witnessed by the success of ‘Ottilie von Faber-Castell’ in Iberia and these sales to a wide range of countries.
The miniseries, a story about a brilliant young woman navigating the pitfalls of 19th century business, family and forbidden love, has been picked up by Italy’s Rai 1, where it earned top ratings with an audience of more than 2.8 million. The show recently also enjoyed great success on Rtp in Portugal, where it performed higher than the average for the time slot.
Other licensees include Yle (Finland), Rtv (Slovenia), Rtvs (Slovakia), Ltv (Latvia), Network 4 (Hungary), Inter TV (Ukraine), Etv (Estonia) and Lrt (Lithuania).
Robert Franke, vice-president Zdfe.drama, Zdfd Enterprises, said: “Great storytelling travels and has the ability to win over audiences across different cultures, as witnessed by the success of ‘Ottilie von Faber-Castell’ in Iberia and these sales to a wide range of countries.
- 4/8/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The drama will centre on a Berlin schoolteacher of Kurdish origins. Florian Hoffmann, whose documentary Arlette - Courage Is a Muscle was part of Idfa’s Competition for Student Documentary and the Idfa Doc U Competition in 2015, is currently readying his next film, Stille Post. A graduate of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (Dffb), Hoffman is now preparing a drama that centres on Khalil, a Berlin school teacher who comes across war footage from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre. As he joins a community of video activists fighting to draw international attention to the issue and hopes to reconnect with his sister, a camera operator in the combat zone, Khalil begins to question his values and wonder whether he should abandon his life in Berlin. The film, which will be spoken in German and Kurdish, will star Hadi Khanjanpour as Khalil. Among the cast are also Kristin Suckow,...
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