Austria’s ORF Joins Big Budget Central Europe Drama Series ‘Rise Of The Raven’The shoot for big-budget Central European drama Rise of the Raven (working title) is underway near Budapest in Hungary, with Australian pubcaster ORF the latest to join the series as a co-producer.
Produced by Robert Lantos (Sunshine, Johnny Mnemonic), the multi-million dollar series is being billed as “the most epic Central European television production of all time.” It stars Hungary’s Gellért L.
Kádár as Janos Hunyadi, the army commander who defeated the vast Ottoman troops in the Battle of Belgrade in 1456. Vivien Rujder plays his life partner Elizabeth Szilagyi in a widely international cast.
Also featuring are Austria’s Laurence Rupp (Babarians), Cornelius Obonya (Maria Theresa), Murathan Muslu (Breaking Point), Czech actor Karel Roden (Bourne Supremacy, Mr.
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