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Beta Film Unveils MipTV Lineup, Trailer for Gritty New Medical Drama ‘KRANK Berlin’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Standouts from Beta Film at MipTV also take in Canneseries' 'Maxima,' ''Operation Sabre,' 'Soviet Jeans,' 'Wisting' and 'El Immortal.'
Schaad, who helmed the award-winning 2022 romance-fantasy feature “Skin Deep,” described the show as “unique” for German television, adding that he was particularly intrigued by its pacing and action, the high tension, diverse characters and multiple story arcs. The love story between then Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and the outgoing Argentinean Máxima Zorreguieta, a warm-humored chronicle made feature large chemistry between leads Delfina Chaves and Martijn Lakemeier and empathy for two twenty-year-olds’ battle to separate themselves from circumstance. An Audience Award and best actor (Karlis Arnolds Avots) winner, a high-energy take on 1979 Riga, in Latvia as rock fan Renars is interned in a psychiatric ward for an amusing ditty on a KGB agent, but turns the tables, using its tailor’s workshop to launch a counterfeit U.S. jeans production operation as his political rebelliousness blooms.
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