A KOMPLIZEN SERIEN and STUDIOCANAL SERIES Production in co-production with WDR & ARD DEGETO, FILM AG and THE POST REPUBLIC in cooperation with STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+ and CANAL+ Austria.

Year  2024

Length: 8x45 min

Format:   2:1

Country of production  D, AT

Synopsis

„A world without prisons" - that is the revolutionary goal of TRUST, a new rehabilitation program in the city of Rheinstadt. Under the direction of expert Petra Schach, the TRUST program promises to provide released prisoners with jobs, housing, and therapy. The motto is: resolve their problems, rather than locking them away. Some see this as a blow to the victims, others as a social utopia. From the perspective of participants, opponents, social workers, and politicians, A BETTER PLACE tells the story of a city without prisons.

Production

A KOMPLIZEN SERIEN and STUDIOCANAL SERIES Production in co-production with WDR & ARD DEGETO, FILM AG, THE POST REPUBLIC in cooperation with STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+, CANAL+ Austria with the support of German Motion Picture Fund, Film und Medienstiftung NRW, Fisaplus, FILM in AUSTRIA, CNC and co-funded by Creative Europe Media.

Cast

Petra Schach

Maria Hofstätter

Amir Kaan

Steven Sowah

Eva Blum

Katharina Schüttler

Mark Blum

Johannes Kienast

Sabine Broich

Sandra Borgmann

Klaus Bäumer

Richard Sammel

Jens Föhl

Ulrich Brandhoff

Nesrin Gül

Alev Irmak

Nader Massad

Youness Abbaz

Yara Massad

Aysima Ergün

Lydia Sane

Cynthia Micas

Team

Created by

Alexander Lindh

Laurent Mercier

Headwriters

Alexander Lindh

Karin Kaçı

Writers Room

Bahar Bektaş

Daniel Hendler

Nora Gantenbrink

Laurent Mercier

Emanuel Tessema

Directed by

Anna Zohra Berrached

Konstantin Bock

Executive Producers

Alexander Lindh

Anne Zohra Berrached

Director of Photography

Matthias Fleischer

Make Up

Astrid Weber

Hannah Fischleder

Skadi Lesske

Costumes

Lucia Faust

Production Design

Jurek Kuttner

Re-Recording Mixer

Adrian Baumeister

Luise Hofmann

Matthias Schwab

Music

Martin Glos

Jasmin Reuter

Christian Ziegler

Producers

David Keitsch, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski (Komplizen Serien)

Executive Producers

Nicolas Loock, Kalle Friz, Sandrine Mattes (Studiocanal Series)
Anna Marsh (Studiocanal)

Co- Producers

Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz (Film AG)

Michael Reuter (TPR)

Commissioning Editors WDR / ARD

Caren Tönnissen, Frank Tönsmann (WDR)

Christoph Pellander (Degeto)

Commissioning Editors Canal +

Brice Mondoloni (FR)

Irene Heschl (AT)

Helena Velaj (AT)

Festivals

FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE

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