Canneseries Awards: Germany’s ‘The Zweiflers’ Takes Top Prize
deadline.comGerman series The Zweiflers (Die Zweiflers) took home the prize for Best Series at the Canneseries Awards last night. This year, Canneseries took place from 5 to 10 April, in parallel with the final MIPTV event.
The Zweiflers – which also won Best Music and the High School Award for Best Series – is a six-part series about a Jewish family in contemporary Germany pondering the inheritance of the family delicatessen.
Director and showrunner David Hadda paid tribute to his Jewish grandparents at the premiere of the show, which will premiere in Germany on ARD’s Mediathek streaming service in the spring.
Norwegian series Dumbsday (Dummedag) won for Best Screenplay. The series is set against the backdrop of a virus that causes people’s intelligence to drop to unsurvivable levels worldwide.
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