Bordertown
Finnish broadcaster YLE and Germany s Beta Film are backing Mikko Oikkonen s Helsinki Syndrome, a Nordic thriller set to begin shooting in June.
Mikko Oikkonen, creator of Netflix Finnish crime series
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
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