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UFA Hires ‘September 5’ Exec Producer Christoph Müller Fremantle’s German production house UFA has hired Constantin Film‘s Christoph Müller for its cinema division.

The producer, who is an exec producer on the Golden Globe-nominated September 5, joins from Constantin Film and will begin at UFA Fiction on February 1, 2025.

He also is known for productions including the Oscar-nomnated Sophie Scholl, box office hit Er Ist Wieder Da and Elyas M’Barek and Sönke Wortmann’s films Contra and Der Nachname. “We want to open up new business areas and continue to expand on already successful ones,” said Sascha Schwingel, CEO of UFA. “I am therefore very pleased that we are now strengthening our team with Christoph Müller, who is a renowned producer of cinema productions that delight audiences and critics alike.

With him on the team, we will significantly increase the rate of our successful cinema productions.” Sebastian Werninger, Managing Director of UFA Fiction, added Müller was a “pure cinema person who lives and loves this genre.” Werninger and Müller worked together on films such as Medicus, Ich War Noch Niemels in New York and Stasikomödie.