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Jewish Content Streamer ChaiFlicks Snags ‘Kafka’ Series From ORF Enterprise for North America (EXCLUSIVE)


The major streamer for Jewish storytelling will launch the series June 6 to mark the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death.

The six-part series is due to launch June 6 in ChaiFlicks’ territories – the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand-to coincide with the 100 th anniversary of the death of the world celebrated Bohemian author Franz Kafka. The ORF original series is helmed by David Schalko (“Braunschlag”) who co-wrote the script with German-Austrian novelist and playwright Daniel Kehmann, based on the definitive Kafka biography by Reiner Stach. ORF Enterprise’s deal with ChaiFlicks comes on top of a raft of sales announced at the last MipTV in Cannes, including Channel 4/Walter Presents for the U.K., Polyband for Germany, SVT for Sweden, Yle for Finland, SRF for Switzerland, Ceska Televize for the Czech Republic RTVS for Slovakia, RTV Slovenjia for Slovenia and TV Unam for Mexico.

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