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
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 CO
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If you don’t think video games should have politics, don’t play Disco Elysium - The Final Cut. If you don’t think games should aspire to say something, this detective-RPG isn’t the game for you. That’s not to say the $39.99 game is a manifesto. The way it cynically, yet thoughtfully, criticizes a range of ideologies reveals the game’s politics aren’t nearly as narrow you might expect. But this isn’t wishy-washy centrism. Disco Elysium’s sympathies ultimately lie with working people and movements that center their best interests, despite asking you to play as cops on the other end of that equation. The brilliant role-playing mechanics and richly realized world would be impressive no matter the story, but Disco Elysium’s beating, thematic heart makes it the best PC game you can play at this moment in history.
Number 1 on this list had to be the seminal Nordic Noir cross-country crime drama,
The Bridge. Created by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein and Hans Rosenfeldt the series begins when a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Øresund Bridge – right on the border between Sweden and Denmark. The Swedish and Danish police are called to the scene. What at first looks like one murder, turns out to be two. The bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. This spectacular double murder is just the beginning of a wave of violence the like of which no one has ever seen before. The Swedish and Danish police find themselves in a race against the clock in a deadly showdown with a superior enemy, where no one will be the same when it’s over.
Total episodes: 4 x 50min
This Dutch series is based on events that took place in the 1990s where the titular Stanley is Stanley Hillis, one of the country’s most infamous criminals. Over three decades, Stanley evolved from ‘gentleman’ bank robber to ruthless kingpin. In the early ’90s, thousands of kilograms of drugs (as well as weapons and explosives) were allowed to enter the country in an effort to catch the leader of the Dutch drug empire.
The four-part
Stanley presents the cat-and-mouse game between the Justice Department and the criminal underworld, introducing us to remarkable characters on both sides. With Stanley’s group marred by mistrust, money problems and betrayal, heads surely roll. A fascinating look at this recent criminal history, Jeroen Spitzenberger stars in the lead role.