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Landing at Series Mania, UFA Fiction’s ‘Disko 76’ Tells Local Story With International Potential, Classic Dance Floor Hits
The UFA Fiction series is set in a pivotal time in West Germany as a new American pop music craze takes over the dance floors.
Spinning audiences back to the mid-1970s, UFA Fiction ‘s latest period series “Disko 76” is set in a pivotal time in the industrial heartland of West Germany as a new American pop music craze takes over the airwaves and dance floors. Boasting classic hits from the likes of Donna Summer, ABBA, Kool and the Gang, Boney M. and many more, the series follows Doro (Luise Aschenbrenner), a rebellious young woman constricted by married life who finds freedom with the arrival of disco music in her hometown of Bochum, first in a neighboring U.S. military base, later, and with her help, in her brother Georg’s (Jonas Holdenrieder) newly acquired pub. While the story is set in Bochum in a very specific time of change in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Swyter is confident “Disko 76” will strike a chord with international audiences.
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