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STUDIOCANAL and Zentropa today announce that principal photography has commenced on Families like ours, the first TV drama series by Academy-Award and BAFTA winning Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round, The Hunt) shooting on location in Copenhagen, Sweden, The Czech Republic, France and Romania.

This TV 2 Denmark and CANAL+ Creation Originale is written by Thomas Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen (Darkness: Those Who Kill) Families like ours reunites Vinterberg and Zentropa with STUDIOCANAL who distributed the Academy-Award and BAFTA winning feature film Another Round in the UK.

STUDIOCANAL is co-producer and distributor of the 6-part series which boasts a stellar cast in multi award-winning Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Brothers, Open Hearts, The Killing, The Idiots, Riders of Justice) Paprika Steen (Festen, Open Hearts, The First Lady), Helene Reingaard Neumann (Another Round, Kursk, Borgen), Magnus Millang (Another Round, Kursk, The Commune), Esben Smed (Follow The Money, Held for Ransom, The Kindness of Strangers), Amaryllis April August in her acting debut, Albert Rudbek Lindhardt (Another Round, Riders of Justice) (Follow The Money, Held for Ransom, The Kindness of Strangers), Thomas Bo Larsen (Another Round, The Hunt, Festen), Asta August (Burn All My Letters, The Pact, A Song for Martin) & David Dencik (No Time To Die, Chernobyl, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).

Zentropa Entertainments and TV 2 DENMARK developed the series with support from the Danish Film Institute’s Public Service Fund and The Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the European Union, STUDIOCANAL is co-producer. CANAL+ immediately commissioned the series at script stage in France as a CANAL+ CREATION ORIGINALE.

FAMILIES LIKE OURS is produced by Zentropa Entertainments in co-production with STUDIOCANAL & TV 2 DENMARK and with NRK and TV4 / C MORE co-produced by Zentropa Sweden, Film I Väst, Sirena Film and Ginger Pictures, co-funded by the Danish Film Institute’s Public Service Fund, The European Union and Nordisk Film & TV Fond and in co-production with CANAL+ Poland, M7 and ARD Degeto.