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BBC Buys Thomas Vinterberg’s Debut TV Project ‘Families Like Ours’
The BBC has bought 'Families Like Ours' from Thomas Vinterberg, Studiocanal, Zentropa about apocalyptic Denmark.
'Per Arnesen Families Like Ours, which premiered at Venice and launched on Scandi broadcasters and Canal+ late last year, is set in Denmark in a not-too-distant future where rising water levels can no longer be ignored and the country needs to be evacuated. Vinterberg said he has always had a “deepfelt connection with the UK and as you will see, it also plays a part in this series.” “Therefore, it is with eager anticipation that I now await how a new audience will receive Families Like Ours, and I am very thankful to the BBC for delivering this story to a nation I feel such a close kinship with,” he added. Vinterberg is a storied Danish director who made 2020’s Oscar-nominated Mads Mikkelsen-starrer Another Round, which is currently being remade in English with Leonardo Di Caprio and Chris Rock.
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