German company Beta Film has sold "I Am Scrooge" series to the US and Canada (MHz), Australia (SBS), Denmark (DR), Latvia (TET), and Hungary (RTL). Meanwhile, further negotiations with key clients are ongoing. The title is set in West Berlin in 1988 and follows a man under the alias "Scrooge McDuck," who becomes the focus of one of the most spectacular extortion cases in German criminal history, attracting global media attention. The series, produced by the award-winning Beta Film subsidiary Zeitsprung Pictures, the producers of Netflix’s German hit series Kleo, will be released on RTL+ in Germany later this year.
The series is directed by Hannu Salonen ("Empire Oktoberfest"), written by Ronny Schalk ("Dark", "Oktoberfest") and stars Friedrich Mücke ("Liberame", "Funeral for a Dog2), Mišel Matičević ("Babylon Berlin"), Sonja Gerhardt ("Deutschland 89", "Ku’Damm 63") and Moritz Führmann ("How to sell Drugs online"). "I Am Scrooge" is produced by Zeitsprung Pictures and Dominik Frankowski, Michael Souvignier, Till Derenbach. Beta Film handles international distribution.
The title is set in Berlin in 1988, when Arno must solve a conundrum: How can he overcome an existential crisis as a failing artist forced to spray-paint cars to make ends meet? A talented tinkerer, he uses his creativity to find his extraordinary new purpose in life: Building bombs in his kitchen and detonating them at night in high-end department stores as leverage for extortion. But evading the authorities proves to be more difficult. Detectives Çoban and Strack are hot on Arno's heals, who has escaped with half a million. The man fools the police under his new alias "Scrooge McDuck", leading to one of the most spectacular extortion cases in German criminal history.
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