“The Ibiza Affair”
Series about the Strache scandal will be shown in October
“The Ibiza Affair”: Andreas Lust in the role of the former Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache.
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“The Ibiza Affair”, a mini-series about the scandal of the Austrian ex-Vice Chancellor Strache, will be released in October. Sky announced that.
The broadcast date of the four-part miniseries “The Ibiza Affair” by director Christopher Schier (50) has been set. The film adaptation of the spectacular political scandal surrounding the former Austrian FPÖ Vice Chancellor (2017-2019) Heinz-Christian Strache (52) will be shown in double episodes on Sky on October 21 and 28.
Top-class cast ensemble
The trailer that was also released gives a little foretaste of the series. You can see the Austrian actor Nicholas Ofczarek (50, “Der Pass”) as private detective Julian Hessenthaler and the German-Lebanese actor David A. Hamade (42, “4 blocks”) as the Viennese lawyer Ramin Mirfakhrai. You are considered to be the mastermind behind the video that was secretly recorded in Ibiza.
The video documented a meeting of several hours between Strache and the former FPÖ club chairman Johann Gudenus (45) with the supposed niece of a Russian oligarch in a finca on Ibiza. It was published on May 17, 2019 by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Spiegel and triggered a political scandal, as a result of which Strache resigned.
The role of the former Austrian Vice Chancellor is played by the Viennese artist Andreas Lust (54). Gudenus is portrayed by Julian Looman (36) and his wife, Tajana Gudenus, by Cosima Lehninger (31). The Russian actress Anna Gorshkova (37) embodies the alleged oligarch niece.
Stefan Murr (45) and Patrick Güldenberg (born 1979) play the two SZ journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier, who were the first to publish the video.