TRAILER AND AIR TIME FOR GREECE SET SO LONG, MARIANNE TV SERIES ON THE LOVE BETWEEN LEONARD COHEN AND HIS MUSE

 SO LONG, MARIANNE SERIES 

ON THE LOVE LIFE OF LEONARD COHEN

The series arrives this September

A trailer is here for Canadian and Norwegian series SO LONG, MARIANNE that tells the legendary love story of Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen (Alex Wolff), and his muse Marianne Ihlen (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) who inspired the titular song. It’s an intimate tale of two lonely people falling in love during a period of their life when they are trying to figure out who they are and their place in the world, while one is becoming one of the most famous singers of all time. Anna Torv, Noah Taylor and Peter Stormare also star. Ben Lloyd Hughes plays Allen Ginsberg.  It starts on ARD in Germany September 22nd and then on Canadian streamer Crave September 27th and will also be on ITVX in UK.

 

THEIR STORY 

 crosses the world, travelling from Norway to Greece, New York and Montreal, with the majority of the series filmed on the picturesque Greek island of Hydra where they lived during the 1960s. There, they joined legendary Australian novelists Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston, the matriarch and patriarch of a bohemian group of writers, artists, poets, and outcasts who were exploring a new world of free love, drugs, and artistic freedom, but also experiencing the rivalries and jealousy that accompanied their intense, interwoven lives.

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW PERIOD SET MINI TV SERIES ON FRANZ KAFKA WITH JOEL BASMAN AND DAVID KROSS

 NEW FRANZ KAFKA SERIES 

COMING THIS EASTER TO ARD AND ORF

German national broadcaster ARD and the Austrian one ORF have teamed up on new Franz Kafka mini TV series titled simply KAFKA. The new six parter will start airing March 25th in the year that marks a hundred years since his death. Based on the three part Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, the series follows Kafka’s (Joel Basman) difficult relationship with his father (Nicholas Ofczarek) and his love affairs with Felice Bauer, Milena Jesenská (Liv Lisa Fries) and Dora Diamant, but also his close friendship with Max Brod (David Kross).

 

IN THE NEW MINI TV SERIES 

Kafka's vacation spot, already ravaged by tuberculosis, is transformed in his imagination into the dark and mythical village of his last and most famous novel, “The Castle”. But he also meets his last great love, Dora Diamant (Tamara Romera Ginés). The two lived in Berlin for a few months and spent Kafka's last days together in the Kierling sanatorium outside Vienna. Franz (Joel Basman) grew up as one of many children in a Jewish middle-class merchant family in Prague. He became enthusiastic about writing from an early age and wrote several texts. One of his best friends, Max Brod (David Kross), is his greatest admirer and encourages him to keep publishing his texts. He himself is a respected writer and full of energy and drive. He believes in Kafka's talent and drives him tirelessly. He is known for his many affairs and his warm-heartedness, which could hardly distinguish him from his shy friend.

 

JOEL BASMAN, DANIEL BRUHL TO LEAD CAST FOR NEW FRANZ KAFKA PERIOD SET MINI SERIES FOR ARD AND ORF

 NEW FRANZ KAFKA SERIES 

SETS LEAD CAST AT ARD AND ORF

German national broadcaster ARD and the Austrian one ORF are teaming up on new Franz Kafka mini TV series titled simply KAFKA. The new six parter should arrive next year when June 2024 marks the hundred years since his death. Based on the three part Kafka biography by Reiner

First cover art with Joel Basman as Franz Kafka

Stach, the series follows Kafka’s (Joel Basman) difficult relationship with his father (Nicholas Ofczarek) and his love affairs with Felice Bauer, Milena Jesenská (Liv Lisa Fries) and Dora Diamant, but also his close friendship with Max Brod (Daniel Bruhl).