Frankfurt Mord premieres on ZDF
The new ZDF Saturday crime series, written by our founder Elena Lyubarskaya with Tanja Bubbel and Nils Willbrandt, premiered on 10 October and is streaming in the ZDF Mediathek.
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It starts with the story and a spark. Then the right thinking turns it into a system. The characters, the world, the engine underneath. Get that architecture right and it works everywhere: as a series, as a vertical drama, as an immersive experience, as something nobody has named yet.
We produce our own projects from that architecture. We run a studio for creators and producers who need it built for theirs. We teach the methodology to writers who want to build their own. One system runs through all of it.
Creation and production aren't two stages. They're one continuous act. The tools change, the formats multiply, new audiences appear. The narrative core holds.
What changes is how stories reach people. What doesn't change is why they matter.
Our team's work includes Pauline (Disney+, Grimme Preis-nominated), City of Blood (Disney+), Frankfurt Mord (ZDF), Cloud Atlas, and the ONX Studio Award at CPH:FORUM.
About UsOriginal IP across television, vertical drama and immersive.
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About usThe new ZDF Saturday crime series, written by our founder Elena Lyubarskaya with Tanja Bubbel and Nils Willbrandt, premiered on 10 October and is streaming in the ZDF Mediathek.
The eight-part thriller created by Philipp Kadelbach and our founder Elena Lyubarskaya had its world premiere at a sold-out Kino International in Berlin. It starts streaming on Disney+ and Hulu on 16 September.
The Last Family on Earth wins the SteinbrennerMuller Award and receives a Special Mention at Seriesly Berlin 2025.
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