Fans can look forward to replenishment of the “Herzkino” series “Family Anders” on ZDF. Just outside of Leipzig, two more 90-minute films are currently being produced in Saxony, directed by Sebastian Stern (44), as confirmed by the Mainz broadcaster. The series celebrated a successful premiere in March 2023 with around four million viewers.
The focus is on the Leipzig couple therapist Fabian Anders (Moritz Treuenfels, 34), who helps every couple out of the crisis, but cannot save their own relationship with his wife Paula (Bettina Burchard, 37). The special concept of the film series: In addition to the regular ensemble, two prominent real life partners each play a couple in need of therapy in one episode.
Gisa Flake (37) and Knud Riepen (42) were in the opening episode “Welcome to the Nest” (March 12) as a prominent guest couple, Bettina Zimmermann (48) and Kai Wiesinger (57) in the second episode “Two are one too much” (March 19). In the two new films, Ann-Kathrin Kramer (57) with “Tatort” star Harald Krassnitzer (62) and Natalie Spinell (41) with Felix Hellmann (44) honor themselves.
Kramer and Krassnitzer have stood in front of the camera together several times. The two have been married since July 2009. They were last seen together in the ZDF thriller “Tödliche Greed” in 2021. Together with his wife Spinell, Hellmann writes the successful BR series “Servus Baby”, which has already produced three seasons since 2018 and in which he also plays.
The broadcast of the two new “Family Anders” films is planned for spring 2024 (broadcast slot: Sunday, 8:15 p.m.). It was already announced in May that the series would be continued – “with the well-known team in front of and behind the camera at the previous locations, directed by Sebastian Stern,” ZDF said at the time.
