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‘Dark’ Star Oliver Masucci Takes on Real-Life ‘Visionary’ in ‘Herrhausen – The Banker And The Bomb’: ’What We Were Told About His Death Can’t Be Right’ (EXCLUSIVE)


‘Dark’ star Oliver Masucci takes on the assassinated banker in ‘Herrhausen – The Banker and the Bomb,’ from Sperl Film, sold by Fremantle.

Herrhausen’s ideas to provide debt relief to the world’s poorest countries and broker a government-backed loan to the Soviet Union put him on magazine covers – they also made him persona non grata. It’s easy to identify with this kind of inner struggle,” notes director Pia Strietmann, admitting that instead of focusing on the show’s period setting, they wanted “fast pace and modern feeling. “The assassination of Alfred Herrhausen reverberated around the world and remains one of Europe’s biggest unsolved true crime murder cases,” says Jens Richter, CEO commercial and international at Fremantle, calling him a “highly influential shapeshifter in finance, as well as politics.”

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