‘30 Days of Lust,’ Where a Young Couple Tests 30 Days of Free Love, Swooped on by Beta Film Before Series Mania World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In early Series Mania business, Europe’s Beta Film has pounced on international distribution rights to “30 Days of Lust,” a half-hour dramedy from Munich’s Trimafilm, in which a couple, high-school sweethearts but now knocking 30, experiment with 30 days of free sex.
Beta Film has also shared in exclusivity with Variety a first clip from the eight-part series which world premieres in International Panorama Competition at next month’s Series Mania, a section whose value is rising fast as companies seek to leverage TV festival selection as a sign of distinction in a still hugely crowded fiction TV marketplace.
In the clip, from the early going of Ep. 1, Freddie (Linda Blümchen), a pharmacist, and Zeno (Simon Steinhorst), an art restorer, hit a party given by an obnoxious acquaintance of Freddie’s from college.
In an opening scene to the series, Freddie, after good enough sex with Zeno, has run through the idea that, since they’ve never had sex with anybody else, they cannot have fulfilled all their fantasies.
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