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Claude Waringo of Samsa Film has a lot to be excited about: the development of stories in the Luxembourg language and within a local context - a vocation that’s dear to the producer and his associates
Jani Thiltges and
Bernard Michaux - is arousing increasing levels of interest. Let’s not forget that in 1989, just as the company was launching activities, it was entrusted with the production of a fiction film which went on to acquire cult status: Schacko Klak by
Paul Kieffer and
Fränk Hoffmann, the first full-length film to be made in Luxembourg. The success enjoyed by this historical drama led to an unprecedented mobilisation of the industry and the professionalisation of its structures.
Luc Schiltz in
Capitani
Claude Waringo of Samsa Film has a lot to be excited about: the development of stories in the Luxembourg language and within a local context - a vocation that’s dear to the producer and his associates
Jani Thiltges and
Bernard Michaux - is arousing increasing levels of interest. Let’s not forget that in 1989, just as the company was launching activities, it was entrusted with the production of a fiction film which went on to acquire cult status: Schacko Klak by
Paul Kieffer and
Fränk Hoffmann, the first full-length film to be made in Luxembourg. The success enjoyed by this historical drama led to an unprecedented mobilisation of the industry and the professionalisation of its structures.
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Luc Schiltz as Luc Capitani in Capitani (IMDb)
Season 1 of Capitani made its debut on October 1, 2019, in Luxembourg. When it was aired on RTL, it became a huge hit with 1.5 million views. The crime series is now set to make its global release on Netflix this February. Director Christophe Wagner, said, We can say that it was really my day when the series was said to be made available for streaming on the giant platform. How not to be proud to see ‘Capitani’ on such a platform! When you see where we started from, with the creation of this first dramatic series shot in Luxembourg in Luxembourgish, he added.
Luxembourg series “Capitani”, which already proved a hit when it was aired on RTL, will get a global release starting 11 February when it can be streamed on American platform Netflix.
Monday was obviously a special day for Luxembourg director Christophe Wagner. While the two episodes he directed for the Belgian series “Unité 42” were broadcast in the evening on French television network France 2, in the afternoon, news leaked on social networks that “Capitani”, the series he directed and co-wrote (with Thierry Faber and Eric Lamhène), will be available for streaming on Netflix from 11 February.
“We can say that it was really my day”, says the 46-year-old director. “How not to be proud to see ‘Capitani’ on such a platform! When you see where we started from, with the creation of this first dramatic series shot in Luxembourg in Luxembourgish”.