Thursday, November 4th, 2021
“Faking Hitler” and “Faith”
TVNOW becomes RTL +
RTL Deutschland has renamed its streaming service TVNOW to RTL +. At the start, RTL + is significantly expanding its offering.
New name, new variety: the streaming service is now called TVNOW RTL +. With the start of RTL +, RTL Deutschland is bundling its extensive TV and streaming entertainment offering. Right from the start, RTL + is significantly expanding the variety of programs. Subscribers can look forward to the justice drama “Ferdinand von Schirach – Faith”, the drama series “Faking Hitler” and the event series “Sisi”.
New content offensive: even more variety on RTL +
“With RTL + we want to offer our audience Germany’s largest entertainment world in the future. In the past few months we have gradually and significantly expanded the range of our streaming service TVNOW: from star-studded fiction to award-winning documentaries and reality formats to exclusive football games and an extensive family and kids’ offer. In the new entertainment world of RTL +, our users can look forward to even more top-class entertainment – especially in the fiction area, “explains Henning Tewes, Co-Managing Director of RTL +.
From series to live sports: Europa League, Temptation Island and more on RTL +
In addition to the more than 50,000 hours of programming in various genres that already exist, RTL + will be launching high-quality content from star-studded fiction in-house productions such as “Ferdinand von Schirach – Faith” and the second season “KBV – No special occurrences” as well as exclusive licensed series such as the ” Gossip Girl “reboot and the second season” Why Women Kill “ready. New, self-produced reality formats such as “Hip Hop – Born to Dance” and “Unbreakable” as well as a multi-part documentary series about the circumnavigator Boris Herrmann will be available on RTL + at the start.
Until the end of the year there will be even more variety on RTL +. Because then the offer will be supplemented by further self-produced fiction highlights such as “Faking Hitler”, “Sisi” or the new family series “Friedmanns Vier”, exclusive licensed formats such as the British thriller series “The Beast Must Die” or the documentary “Allen vs Farrow “expanded. RTL + also features other exclusive UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League games, RTL + Love Realities such as “Temptation Island VIP” and documentaries such as “Stern Crime: The Last Call – Who Killed Frauke Liebs?” ready to stream. In addition, the live stream of all 14 RTL Germany TV channels is running on RTL +.
Ferdinand von Schirach – Faith: Stream justice drama on RTL +
25 defendants, 300 days of trial and a judicial scandal that has gone down in the history of German jurisprudence: “Ferdinand von Schirach – Faith”, based on the bestselling author’s original scripts, is a fictional story inspired by the “Worms Trials” in which from 1994-1997 at the Mainz Regional Court the allegedly largest abuse case in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany was heard. The gripping justice drama with Peter Kurth and Narges Rashidi in the leading roles is from November 4th. available on RTL +.
At the Cannes Series Festival, “Faith” won the Best Screenplay Award and won the “Dior Grand Prize” – an award for overall performance and innovation.
Sisi: Event series on RTL +
“Sisi” – the RTL + event series takes a new look at the life of a young woman who made history as empress and became a legend as a film character. It tells the love story of two young people between personal desires and political pressures, between power and vulnerability. On the one hand Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, known as Sisi, who was known as the “most beautiful woman in Europe”, defied rigid court customs and knew how to use the power of her external appearance for herself and her ideals. On the other hand, Franz Joseph I, who transferred the burden of the crown to personal and political hardship and found an unusual ally in Sisi. Newcomer Dominique Devenport and star actor Jannik Schümann (“9 days awake”, “Die Mitte der Welt”, “Charité”) take on the two main roles in the remake of RTL +.
Faking Hitler: RTL + shows series from the end of November
First a sensation and later a scandal: in 1983, STERN published Hitler’s secret diaries. The German public was fascinated: Did Hitler suffer from insomnia and loss of appetite? And did he think chow chows were sneaky? A few days later, experts exposed the supposed diaries with their intimate insights into the emotions and thoughts of a tyrant as falsifications. The new RTL + drama series “Faking Hitler” is the fictionalized film adaptation of the events surrounding the publication of the Hitler diaries. At the same time, it provides an in-depth look at sensationalism, fake news and the seductiveness of people. The series also shows how Germany was still under the spell of its National Socialist past in the 80s.
RTL + shows the top-class series “Faking Hitler” from November 30, 2021 in the stream. In the six-part series, Lars Eidinger (“25 km / h”, “Close Shot”) as STERN reporter Gerd Heidemann and Moritz Bleibtreu (“Cortex”, “The Baader Meinhof Complex”) as art forger Konrad Kujau in front of the camera.
RTL + prices remain unchanged
As part of the renaming to RTL +, the packages in RTL + Free (free), RTL + Premium (4.99 euros) and RTL + Premium Duo (7.99 euros) will also be adjusted, the prices will remain unchanged.