‘Bad Banks’ Producer Letterbox Boards Contrast Film’s ‘Davos’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Letterbox Filmproduktion, producer of ZDF-Arte hit “Bad Banks” – and part of the Studio Hamburg Production Group that backed Netflix’s “Unorthodox” – has boarded “Davos,” a high-end drama series fr…

“Davos,” a period espionage thriller, is being written by Germany’s Julia Penner, head writer on seasons 3, 4 and 5 of “Druck,” Germany’s adaptation of “Skam,” and Switzerland’s Adrian Illen, a former producer at Swiss public broadcaster SRF of crime series “Tatort.

Produced by Madeo and Eichenberger, “Davos” was introduced at the Berlinale Series Market in 2019 – the first Swiss series to be presented there – and then at the TorinoFilmLab Extended TV Series 2020 workshop this February. “Davos” will shoot in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, Madeo said. Contrast’s TV build doesn’t mean, however, that it has given up on movie production. Quite the contrary. “Serial storytelling shows all the more clearly what intriguing opportunities lie in the consolidated 90-minute or even shorter format; how you can play creatively with deliberate omissions,” he said. “So, the change between TV and theatrical formats primarily makes us more conscious and virtuoso narrators.

 

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