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Viaplay Lands in Germany

Viaplay Content Distribution has launched its Viaplay channel as an add-on subscription to Prime Video via Prime Video Channels in Germany. Prime Video Channel subscribers can access Viaplay’s offering of Scandinavian and European series and films starting today, Oct. 22.

Viaplay’s German offering includes high-quality and impactful Nordic series and films, including award-winning Nordic noir dramas such as “End of Summer,” “Face to Face,” “The Bridge,” “Gåsmamman,” “Furia,” “Trom,” “Stockholm Requiem,” “The Sandhamn Murders,” “Unit One,” “The Team,” “Wallander,” and “Darkness: Those Who Kill.” The platform will also host three films from the Millennium/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo franchise.

Other titles included at launch are the YA series “Threesome” and “Delete Me”; dramas “Seaside Hotel,” “Love Me,” “Pörni Seasons,” “The Beach Hotel” and “Lyckoviken”; and documentaries “The Prize of Silence,” “Operation Cannabis” and “Wozniacki & Lee.”

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Dr Sales, the international sales arm of Danish pubcaster Dr, is launching at Mipcom in Cannes Dr Drama’s latest event series “Generations,” mixing crime, mystery and family secrets.

Making her debut in long-form serialised drama is Anna Emma Haudal, behind DR3’s hit youth series “Doggystyle” for which she won a national Robert Award for best short series in 2019. Haudal shares the writing credits with seasoned writer Rune-Schjøtt-Wieth and co-directs with Thomas Daneskov (“Wild Men”) and Ville Gideon Sörman (“I See You”).

Toplining the drama is rising talent Alice Bier who landed the title role in Netflix’s period drama “Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction,” after an appearance in her mother Susanne Bier’s “The Night Manager.” In other main roles are seasoned actresses Ulla Henningsen, Anette Støvelbæk as well as Simon Sears (“Ride Upon the Storm”).

The series opens with the discovery of a mummified infant during a...

Copenhagen-based sales and financing outlet REinvent has inked major deals on the Danish/German thriller “Oxen”, ahead of its screening Feb. 19 as part of the Berlinale Series Market Selects label.

The show, produced by Scandi major Sf Studios with Germany’s Square One for TV2 Denmark and Zdf, has been acquired by Gsn Networks for the UK, AMC for Spain/Portugal as well as Orion Group for Poland.

An earlier pre-sale was closed with Lumière for Benelux: Further deals are pending for the U.S. and Latin America according to REinvent.

Powered by a stellar creative team including helmer Jannik Johansen, Emmy-award winning duo Mai Brostrøm and Peter Thorsboe, who wrote the screenplay based on Jens Henrik Jensen’s best-selling book series, “Oxen” was one of the biggest series on Danish television in 2023. Launched late October, it averaged 1.3 million consolidated viewers on TV2 Denmark.

Jacob Lohmann plays the title role as veteran Niels Oxen,...

You may know him as the villain Le Chiffre from the James Bond movie Casino Royale, or as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in NBC’s TV series Hannibal. He has also starred in a number of Hollywood blockbusters, including Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Doctor Strange. But before he became an international star, Mads Mikkelsen was just a shy boy from Denmark who never expected to achieve such fame.

From humble beginnings to becoming an acclaimed actor on both the big and small screen, this is Mads Mikkelsen’s story. Here we will explore how he rose to fame, discuss his greatest achievements and shed light on some lesser known facts about the man behind the character. Along the way you’ll discover what drives him, what makes him special and how he has stayed true to himself while engaging with Hollywood superstardom.

Mads Mikkelsen. Depostiphotos...

TrustNordisk, which is at the Canneseries Festival (Apr. 1-6) with “The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen,” has scored a raft of deals on Christian Tafdrup’s psychological horror film “Speak No Evil.”

The Sundance film follows a Danish family who befriends a Dutch family while vacationing in Tuscany. Months later, the Danish couple receive an unexpected invitation to visit the Dutch in their wooden house and decide to go for the weekend. Things gradually get out of hand, and the Danish family find themselves trapped.

TrustNordisk sold “Speak No Evil” to South Korea (Sidus Fnh Corporation), Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand (Cm Holdings), Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy (Koch Films) and Israel (Lev Cinemas).

“Speak No Evil,” which was recently released in Danish cinemas, was produced by Profile Pictures’ producer Jacob Jarek. Oak Motion Pictures in the Netherlands co-produced the movie with support from The Danish Film Institute, FilmFyn, The Netherlands Film Production Incentive,...

The Killing is long gone, Borgen is done, and the last foreign drama to really capture the imagination of the British public - Channel 4's French spooker The Returned - won't be back on our screens until at least 2016.

So is our fascination with foreign fare over with - or could another international series be about to break through? Digital Spy takes a look at 8 contenders:

1. Deutschland '83

Where's it from? Germany.

What's it about? Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is wrenched from the world he knows and sent to the West as an undercover Stasi spy at the height of the Cold War. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of Nato military strategy.

Could it be a hit in the UK? Talks with Brit broadcasters are currently ongoing, but a big factor here could be the news that Deutschland '83 is...

Danish director’s final TV series to be premiered later this month by Danish pubcaster Dr.

Danish director Kathrine Windfeld has died at 48 after a short illness. According to local press, she suffered from a brain tumour.

Windfeld, whose latest television series (as conceptual director) The Team (Mord uden grænser) – a European Dr-zdf-svt-orf-arte co-production starring Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen – will be premiered by Danish pubcaster Dr on Feb 22, left her imprint both in feature films and television drama.

“With her insisting power and energy she was on the threshold of realising the full potential of an already impressive career,” wrote managing director Henrik Bo Nielsen of the Danish Film Institute. “Her infectious humour and sometimes furious energy will be remembered and missed.”

Educated at the National Polish Film School in Lodz, adding a Ma in Film Production at the Northern School of Film & TV at the University of Leeds, Windfeld made several shorts and documentaries while working...

Danish director’s final TV series to be premiered later this month by Danish pubcaster Dr.

Danish director Kathrine Windfeld has died at 48 after a short illness. According to local press, she suffered from a brain tumour.

Windfeld, whose latest television series (as conceptual director) The Team (Mord uden grænser) – a European Dr-zdf-svt-orf-arte co-production starring Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen – will be premiered by Danish pubcaster Dr on Feb 22, left her imprint both in feature films and television drama.

“With her insisting power and energy she was on the threshold of realising the full potential of an already impressive career,” wrote managing director Henrik Bo Nielsen of the Danish Film Institute. “Her infectious humour and sometimes furious energy will be remembered and missed.”

Educated at the National Polish Film School in Lodz, adding a Ma in Film Production at the Northern School of Film & TV at the University of Leeds, Windfeld made several shorts and documentaries while working...

A danish police woman, intuitively impressive cop, tough as bricks in a world populated by doubting men, compromised personal life - sound familiar?

For those missing their dose of Danish TV crime on Saturday nights, fear not, there's a new box set out just for you.

Unit One - an elite team travelling around Denmark solving some of the country's most heinous crimes

While distributors Nordic Noir could be forgiven for scraping the barrel in their attempts to feed their ever-hungry British audience with whatever subtitled murder they can get their hands on, the good news is that 'Unit One' is a cracking series, with all the ingredients we've come to expect from our Danish counterparts (And the bonus ball of Casino Royale villain Mads Mikkelsen in a lead role).

More: Mads Mikkelsen talks to HuffPostUK - 'Becoming A Bond Villain Was An Anti-Climax'

How did they get it so right?...

Bond baddie Mads Mikkelsen will be honoured for his career achievements at the European Film Awards in December.

The Danish star, who played villainous Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, has been feted by bosses at the European Film Academy for his "unique contribution to film" with the Achievement in World Cinema Award.

Mikkelsen says, "There is very little to say when you are honoured with an award of this calibre other than that I am deeply grateful."

The 45 year old started his career in 1996 Danish film Pusher before gaining recognition for Emmy Award-winning TV show Rejseholdet.

He made his Hollywood debut in 2004 opposite Clive Owen in King Arthur before appearing in Clash of the Titans and The Three Musketeers.