Television, the company behind Netflix hit “Dark,” “Tribes of Europa” follows three siblings as they struggle to survive in a new Europe emerging from cataclysm. Henriette Confurius, Emilio Sakraya , David Ali Rashed and Oliver Masucci star.
“In 2016 that was all very much in the future,” says Koch. “We had right-wing separatism going on quite extensively in Europe, but end-of-the-world apocalyptic vibes weren’t on the table. For me it was only a subtext of what’s going on. Now with corona, we can literally see it close in front of our own eyes, which is sort of scary.”
“The whole thing started with me wanting to do a show about the end of Europe and what we ended up with is actually a show about the new beginning of Europe.” “I think the real international quality comes from the way of storytelling,” says Berg. “We’ve all seen many shows on Netflix that have grown into a global phenomenon even when not shot in English. Look at ‘Dark’ – we had 10 times more viewers internationally than we had in Germany. That was not the original anticipation but an amazing outcome.
The show, which shot in Germany, the Czech Republic and Croatia, continues W&B Television’s foray into the realm of science fiction and fantasy. Germany was well known for classic genre works in the 1920s and ’30s, but they have been largely missing from modern cinema, Koch points out. Streaming platforms are changing that, however.
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