(WEST OF LIBERTY)

© Martin Valentin Menke
Production Report featured in
German Films Quarterly 02/2018
German Films Quarterly 02/2018
Cologne-based Network Movie and Sweden's Anagram Se have joined forces to produce the international high-end six-part series WEST OF LIBERTY, the first novel in Thomas Engström's series of novels about the former Stasi agent and CIA informant Ludwig Licht.
German actor Wotan Wilke Möhring as Licht is no longer in active service and works as a freelance problem solver and barman in Berlin's Kreuzberg. However, when his former CIA colleague and partner in crime GT Berner (Matthew Marsh) contacts him about investigating the case of Lucien Gell (Lars Eidinger), a corrupt leader of a whistle-blower site, Licht decides to return to the shadowy world of the intelligence service to bring the number one enemy of the state to justice...
German actor Wotan Wilke Möhring as Licht is no longer in active service and works as a freelance problem solver and barman in Berlin's Kreuzberg. However, when his former CIA colleague and partner in crime GT Berner (Matthew Marsh) contacts him about investigating the case of Lucien Gell (Lars Eidinger), a corrupt leader of a whistle-blower site, Licht decides to return to the shadowy world of the intelligence service to bring the number one enemy of the state to justice...
Genre Thriller
Category Mini-Series
Year of Production 2018
Director Barbara Eder
Screenplay Sara Heldt, Donna Sharpe
Cast Wotan Wilke Möhring, Matthew Marsh, Michelle Meadows, Cara Horgan, Philipp Karner, Dona Croll, Lars Eidinger
Producers Wolfgang Cimera, Bettina Wente, Gunnar Carlsson
Production Companies Network Movie, Anagram Se, in co-production with ZDF, SVT Swedish Public TV, Stockholm
Language English, German
World Sales
ITV Global Entertainment
chloe.normyle@itv.com; lee.taylor@itv.com
https://itvstudios.com/
Category Mini-Series
Year of Production 2018
Director Barbara Eder
Screenplay Sara Heldt, Donna Sharpe
Cast Wotan Wilke Möhring, Matthew Marsh, Michelle Meadows, Cara Horgan, Philipp Karner, Dona Croll, Lars Eidinger
Producers Wolfgang Cimera, Bettina Wente, Gunnar Carlsson
Production Companies Network Movie, Anagram Se, in co-production with ZDF, SVT Swedish Public TV, Stockholm
Language English, German
World Sales
ITV Global Entertainment
chloe.normyle@itv.com; lee.taylor@itv.com
https://itvstudios.com/