Beta Film has acquired the worldwide sales rights to the drama series ‘Other People’s Money’, which will have its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale next month.
The series revolves around Europe’s largest tax fraud ever. It tells the story of how a criminal network of mega-rich investors, bankers and lawyers stole €146 billion from European taxpayers.
The showrunner and creator is Jan Schomburg (“I’m Your Man”, “Above Us Only Sky”). The producers are Michael Polle at X Filme Creative Pool (“Babylon Berlin”), Ole Søndberg at True Content Entertainment (“Millennium” trilogy) and EPO-Film. The show is supported by the broadcasters ZDF, DR and New8, a group of public broadcasters from Northern and Western Europe.
“Other People’s Money” is the latest addition to Beta’s Berlinale line-up, led by the Berlinale opening film “The Light” by Tom Tykwer (“Babylon Berlin,” “Run Lola Run”), starring Lars Eidinger (“Babylon Berlin,” “ Dying”) and the Panorama world premiere “Cicadas” by Ina Weisse (“The Audition”), starring Nina Hoss (“Yella,” “Barbara,” “Tár”).
“Other People’s Money” is inspired by the “CumEx-Files” investigation by European news media that exposed a global financial network that defrauded the European treasury, and therefore every European citizen, of €146 billion. The eight-hour series follows the perpetrators, as well as two women from two different countries, who try to put an end to it – but the states and banks seem to be preventing their efforts at all costs.
The series stars Lisa Wagner (“From Hilde, With Love,” “The Pool”), Karen-Lise Mynster (“Madame Ida”), Justus von Dohnanyi (“Downfall”), Niels Strunk, David Dencik (“No Time to Including Die”, “Chernobyl”) and Fabian Hinrichs (“Divided We Stand”). Dustin Loose (“Divided We Stand”) and Kaspar Munk (“The Rain,” “Kamikaze”) share directing credits. The directors of photography are Clemens Baumeister (“Divided We Stand”) and Laust Trier Mørk (“The Responder”).
The series is co-financed by Fisa+, GMPF, the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the Nordvisions Fund and the Croatian Audiovisual Center.