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THE BURNING GIRLS

BASED ON CJ TUDOR’S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME AND ADAPTED BY BRON (THE BRIDGE) CREATOR HANS ROSENFELDT, this sixpart Paramount+ series blends psychological horror and small-town mystery for a story set in a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history. Samantha Morton (The Serpent Queen) plays Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent haunted by a tragedy at her previous church and who bears the burden of her husband’s death. When she arrives with her 15-year-old daughter in Chapel Croft with the hope of a fresh start, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets relating to a bloody past.

AN EPIC FANTASY SERIES THAT HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED BY RTL+ IN GERMANY AND WILL ALSO BE RELEASED AS A MOVIE, Hagen is pitched as a reinterpretation of Nibelungenlied, a legendary poem written around 1200 that recounts the escapades of heroes and warriors. In the series, Burgundian weapon master Hagen von Tronje is keeping his crisis-ridden kingdom together with an iron fist while suppressing his love for the king’s daughter, Kriemhild, and his own dark past. But Hagen faces a choice between love and loyalty to the king when Kriemhild falls in love with famous dragon slayer Siegfried von Xanten, whom the king has asked to help him force dangerous Valkyrie Brunhild to become his queen. Gijs Naber stars as Hagen, alongside Jannis Niewöhner (Siegfried), Lilja van der Zwaag (Kriemhild) and Dominic Marcus Singer (King Gunter).

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