UFA Fiction, ZDF Partner on Martin Luther Drama

POTSDAM: A two-part drama about Martin Luther, a seminal figure in the Reformation, is in the works from UFA Fiction for ZDF.

The four-hour production, tentatively titled Heaven and Hell—Martin Luther, will be represented worldwide by FremantleMedia International. Directed by Uwe Janson and executive produced by Benjamin Benedict and Joachim Kosack, it stars Maximilian Brückner as the revolutionary priest. Filming is under way in Prague for a 2017 broadcast as part of ZDF’s strand of content marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

UFA Fiction’s Benedict and Kosack said, “The radical perspective on those early days of the Reformation that Heaven and Hell—Martin Luther gives enables us to portray human inconsistencies, depths and conflicts. This is a story of a group of people alive 500 years ago whose internal convictions led them to forge a new path—one that ultimately changed the world. And, as our film shows, this was a story of several people, not just Martin Luther.”