Tom Schilling
Star lands lead role in new Netflix series
Tom Schilling has a lust for murder as an actor in a new Netflix series.
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Best-selling book “Achtsam Morden” finds its way to Netflix. It is now clear that Tom Schilling will star as the main character.
Accordingly, the eight-part series is currently in development in Berlin and the surrounding area. Other leading roles will include Emily Cox (38, “The Last Kingdom”) and Sascha Geršak (48, “The Captain”). Doron Wisotzky, Anneke Janssen and Michael Kenda are responsible for the script, and Martina Plura, Max Counte and Boris Kunz are directing. “Achtsam Morden” is produced by Constantin Television, with Oliver Berben serving as executive producer.
From lawyer to executor – that’s what it’s all about
Like the novel, the series is about a sought-after and overworked lawyer named Björn Diemel (Schilling). For the sake of his wife Katharina (Cox) and their daughter Emily (Pamuk Pilavci), Björn signs up for a mindfulness seminar in order to better balance work and private life in the future and ultimately save his broken marriage.
In fact, the seminar has unforeseen consequences for Björn, as a result of which one of his clients dies. However, since this is the influential and unscrupulous mafia boss Dragan Sergowicz (Geršak), not only the police but also a whole gang of gangsters are soon on his heels. In order to save his skin and that of his family, it doesn’t stop with this one murder…
The darkly humorous book “Achtsam Morden” by author and lawyer Karsten Dusse became a bestseller and has been translated into over 20 languages. To date, there have been three very successful sequels about the murderous lawyer Björn Diemel. A target start date for his first serial murder on Netflix has not yet been announced.