MIPTV: ‘Bordertown’ Creator Gets Greenlight for New Finnish Thriller
Georg Szalai
Bordertown, has received the greenlight for his next project, the Nordic thriller
Helsinki Syndrome.
Finnish public broadcaster YLE and world sales group Beta Film have come on board to back the eight-hour limited series, which will begin shooting in Finland in June. Helsinki-based Fisher King, part of Beta’s Nordic Studio (BNS) group of Scandinavian production companies, will produce the series.
The thriller features
Vikings star Peter Franzén as Elias Karo, a man whose life has been destroyed by corrupt bankers and government officials. In an act of desperation, he kidnaps four respected journalists in the office of the main newspaper in Helsinki to force them to expose two bank officials and a district court judge whose actions have wiped out Elias’ family fortune and led to his father’s suicide. The contemporary drama imagines a financial meltdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also flashes back to the Finnish banking crisis of the 1990s.