True crime series Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 will be the first documentary series to run in the fiction competition of the Hamburg International Film Festival, which is currently taking place from September 29 to October 8.
The high-end true crime docuseries — produced by gebrueder beets filmproduktion and OneGate Media — tells the story of the fight between Special Unit 65, Germany’s first-ever police unit to fight organized crime, and its adversaries, including the U.S. Mafia, Hells Angels and Germany’s most notorious serial killer. The series is set in the 1980s in Hamburg’s Reeperbahn red-light-district.
It is the first documentary project to be financed by the German Motion Picture Fund, which had previously only funded high-profile fiction projects such as Babylon Berlin and The Queen’s Gambit.
OneGate Media handles the docuseries’ worldwide distribution rights.
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