Exploring ‘Other People’s Money’: Jan Schomburg Talks Tax Fraud Drama Series Ahead Of Berlin Film Festival World Premiere

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Other People’s Money plays in the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival. The series premiere will be a full circle moment for Jan Schomburg – his first film, Above Us Only Sky, played in the same Berlinale sidebar in 2011.

The German writer and director is speaking to Deadline from his Berlin Film Festival base. The warehouse-like space will serve as the venue for the after party following the premiere of the series that he wrote, and upon which he was showrunner.

Other People’s Money takes in a tax fraud that centered on so-called cum-ex trades, and the work of those seeking to expose the wrongdoing.

The shorthand explanation often used for those not familiar with the complex financial machinations is it’s “a bit like parents claiming a child benefit for two children when there is only one child in the family.” The series was inspired by the CumEx files, the investigation by a host of European journalists and news outlets into the tax double dealing, as well as the Oliver Schröm book ‘Die Akte Scholz’ and research by Christian Salewski and “Det Store Skatterøveri” by Niels Fastrup and Thomas G.