Call My Agent Berlin [working title] is heading to Disney+.
The latest adaptation of the French hit comedy comes from Germany, telling the story of the Stern actors agency and its agents. German stars including Lucas Gregorowicz, Karin Hanczewski, Michael Klammer, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, Dana Herfurth, Benny O. Arthur, Janina Elkin and Taynara Silva-Wolf play the agents from the Stern talent agency in Call My Agent Berlin [working title], which Disney+ said has just finished filming. More special guests will likely be unveiled.
The series is being showran by Johann Buchholz, who runs producer Friday Film. Boris Kunz and Laura Lackman are directing. “Many of the country’s most skillful manipulators work in the film business. We are erecting a monument to them,” joked Buchholz.
Benjamina Mirnik-Voges, Director Original Productions, The Walt Disney Company in GSA, said: “We are delighted and proud to be working with Friday Film to adapt this special dramedy for the German market and to be able to present it so soon. Call My Agent Berlin promises emotional, exciting entertainment paired with hilarious, self-deprecating humor at the highest level.”
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Fanny Herrero’s Call My Agent was a huge hit in France, picked up by Netflix and running for five years, and it has since been picked up in the likes of the UK and Spain.
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