MIPCOM Spotlight: Global Screen

CANNES: There are two new miniseries, Charité and Fangar-Prisoners, leading off Global Screen’s highlights.

Set in Berlin in 1888, Charité tells the story of Ida, who undergoes a critical operation at the world-famous Charité Hospital and must then work off the treatment costs. She not only discovers her passion for medicine but also becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era. Fangar-Prisoners is a contemporary drama series about a young woman who is sent to serve time in Iceland’s only women’s prison for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a coma. “A special focus lies on the strong and sometimes controversial female characters,” says Alexandra Heidrich, the head of TV sales and acquisitions at Global Screen.

The company is also presenting the 90-minute TV movie Luther and I. “2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and Luther and I is the perfect event movie to commemorate the event,” says Heidrich.