Ed Meza @edmezavar After wowing audiences with their 2020 debut film, the award-winning Berlinale screener “No Hard Feelings,” and branching out into TV, Paulina Lorenz and Faraz Shariat of Berlin-based Jünglinge Film are set for their next big-screen project from an increasingly voluminous pipeline.
Lorenz and Shariat, who are celebrating their company’s 10th anniversary this year, are also developing their first English-language pic and working with some of Germany’s highest-profile producers on ambitious series.
Jünglinge is scheduled to begin production in May on “Prosecution” (“Staatsschutz”), a legal thriller that explores right-wing violence in the German justice system, which Shariat will direct.
Chen Emilie Yan, Alev Irmak, Sebastian Urzendowsky and Arnd Klawitter star in the film, which follows a young Korean-German public prosecutor (Yan) who’s starting her first job in a small eastern German town. “It’s her story of resistance and trying to figure out whether you can resist within the system or if you need to be outside of it,” Lorenz said.
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