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ODEON FICTION

germany

Contact

MISCHA HOFMANN

Producer/CEO

 

BRITTA MEYERMANN

Head of Int’l Co-production

 

 

mail@odeonfiction.com

+49(0)89 999513500

 

https://www.odeonfiction.com/

COMPANY PROFILE

 

Odeon Fiction and its team stand for the production of high-quality fictional content for television, cinema and streaming platforms across all genres and formats.

Odeon Fiction produces successful TV series such as EIN FALL FÜR ZWEI, DER STAATSANWALT or LETZTE SPUR BERLIN and the series HARTER BROCKEN, DIE FÜCHSIN and MASUREN KRIMI, which regularly achieve top ratings on German television. Several series, serials and TV movies are in production and preparation. These include 37 SECONDS for ARD Degeto, TENDER HEARTS for Sky and BOOM BOOM BRUNO for Warner TV Serie.

Formats such as TÜRKISCH FÜR ANFÄNGER have received many national and international awards. Cinema productions include ERKAN & STEFAN, JOHN RABE, DAS FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER and ZOROS SOLO.

Odeon Fiction productions have been nominated and awarded the German Television Prize, the Grimme Prize, the German Comedy Prize and the Bavarian Television Prize, among others.

Odeon Fiction is a company of LEONINE Studios.

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Mischa Hofmann

Britta Meyermann

 

COMPANY HIGHLIGHTS

BONN  2021-2022

Genre:           TV Series 6x1h

Director:      Claudia Garde 

Screenplay:  Claudia Garde (head author), Martin Rehbock, Peter Furrer | based on an idea by Gerrit Hermans

Cast:             Mercedes Müller, Max Riemelt, Sebastian Blomberg, Juergen Maurer, Martin Wuttke, Katharina Marie Schubert

BONN is a six-part political thriller. Set against the backdrop of a stirring and dramatic family story, the series recounts the rise of the young Federal Republic between the terror of World War II and the return to everyday life amid two rival German secret services.

37 SECONDS  2021

Genre:          TV Series 6x1h

Director:      Bettina Oberli 

Screenplay:  Julia Penner, David Sandreuter 

Cast:             Emily Cox, Jens Albinus, Paula Kober, Marie-Lou Sellem, Valentin Mirow, Camill Jammal, Denise M’Baye,                                     Marc  Benjamin, Martin Feifel, etc.

The young lawyer Clara Andersen goes beyond all moral limits to have her father, the famous singer Carsten Andersen, declared innocent of raping her best friend Leonie Novak. The situation of the night of the crime seems to be ambiguous, because on the one hand Leonie and Carsten actually had a passionate love affair, but on the other hand the decisive word was “no”.

SPY CITY  2021

Genre:          TV Series 6x1h - Thriller/ Spy / Historical / Returning Series

Director:      Miguel Alexandre

Screenplay:  William Boyd

Cast:             Dominic Cooper, Leonie Benesch, Johanna Wokalek, Romane Portail, Adrian Lukis, Rupert Vansittart, Wanja                               Mues, Leonard Kunz, Tonio Arango, Seumas Sargent, Mark Zak, Brian Caspe, Lisa Hofer, Ben Münchow, Tom                             Ashley, Oliver Marlo, Constantin von Jascheroff, Peter Kremer, Raymond Tarabay, etc.

 

Who can you trust in a world where no-one can be trusted?
Even worse, what do you do when the woman you love turns out to be your ruthless enemy?
This is the awful dilemma faced by the English spy, FIELDING SCOTT, sent to Berlin in 1961, on a mission to find out the source of the haemorrhage of vital security information. The Russians, it seems, know everything. Someone in Berlin is giving away all the secrets of the Western powers – American, British and French. Fielding has been given a job – his mission – possibly the hardest job in the world. Clean up Berlin. Find out who the traitor is and expose, arrest or eliminate that person.
Spy City is not only about espionage and the power struggle between two diametrically opposing ideologies, it is also about the lives, loves and daily challenges of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events in a rapidly changing universe, in the most exciting and dangerous city in the world.

DEADWIND   2017/2018

Genre:          TV Series (12x1h) - Crime (Finnish / German)

Director:      Rike Jokela

Screenplay: Rike Jokela, Kirsi Porkka, Jari-Olavi Rantala

Cast:            Phila Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Jani Volanen, Pamela Tola, Tommi Korpela, Jani Volanen

 

DEADWIND is a highly thrilling and emotional Nordic Crime series mixing crime investigation and personal drama of the main character Sofia Karppi, a female detective in her 40’s who has just lost her husband and is left alone with two children to take care of. The crime starts with the body. Finnish construction company Tempo is planning a borough in Helsinki, which generates its own energy with a private wind turbine park. Things get complicated when a woman’s body is found underneath the construction site.

 

FLUG DER STÖRCHE  2011

Genre:           TV-Movie (2x90’) - Action, Crime; Mystery (French / German)

Directors:     Jan Kounen

Screenplay:  Jean-Christoph Grangé, Denis McGrath

Cast:              Harry Treadaway, Rutger Hauer, Clemens Schick, Perdita Weeks


Jonathan Anselme, a young English academic, teams up with Max Böhm, an amateur ornithologist, to follow storks on their migration from Switzerland to Africa. Max wants to find out why some birds never return from this journey. However, after Max is found dead in mysterious circumstances, Jonathan decides to make the trip alone, never suspecting that he will find himself caught up in an international web of intrigue.

 

 

JOHN RABE   2009

Genre:              Biography, Drama, History

Director:          Florian Gallenberger

Screenplay:      Florian Gallenberger

Cast:                 Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Dagmar Manzel, Gottfried John, Steve Buscemi

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38. After 18 years building and managing a vast Siemens plant in Nanking, John Rabe is ordered by the new Nazi regime to close it down. Before he can pack, the Japanese army, lead unofficially by a bloodthirsty imperial uncle, lays siege to the city. Rabe accepts, as a prominent representative of Japan's major European ally, to head the Western ex-pats society's plan to start and run an international zone, like work in Shanghai. Rabe, however, wants it to save his workers and their close ones, over 200,000 and sacrifices all his personal interests.

 

Bayerischer Filmpreis 2008 (producer/male leading actor), Deutscher Filmpreis 2009 (movie, male leading actor/costume/production design)

 

 

KDD - KRIMINALDAUERDIENST - STREETS OF BERLIN 2006 - 2010

Genre:   TV Series, Crime

Director: Matthias Glasner, Lars Kraume, Filippos Tsitos

Screenplay: Orkun Ertener, Falko Löffler

Cast: Götz Schubert, Manfred Zapatka, Barnaby Metschurat, Melika Foroutan

The series follows the story of the fictional day-shift squad of the Berlin "Kriminaldauerdienst" (Crime Squad) in the problematic quarter Kreuzberg. It can be divided into three narrative levels; a plot spanning all three seasons is a corruption case within the Berlin police that the officers of the Berlin Crime Squad investigate, additionally, the show follows the private lives of the investigators, and the criminal cases they are confronted with every day.

Deutscher Filmpreis 2007: Best Series

Bayerischer Fernsehpreis 2007: Best Actress Series

Grimme-Preis: Script, Production, Actors

 

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