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. Produced by Zentropa, Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing, and co-produced by Zentropa Sweden, Lizette Jonjic, and Film i Väst.
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).
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.
Families Like Ours takes place in summertime Denmark where everything seems normal but is about to be disrupted. After a flood slowly takes over the land, the country is gradually evacuated. People must bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and to who they are. In the coming years, people disperse in all directions: only houses, schools and empty streets are left.
Those who can afford it travel to good countries, while those who are less well-off have to use a government-funded program to move to more challenging places. Families, friends and loved ones will be separated; hatred and division will arise among some, while love and reconciliation will grow among others. In a flash, all property is worthless, all fortunes changed, and luck favors only a few of the traveling population.
Laura is a high school student in love for the first time and on the brink of graduating, when news of the evacuation breaks. A reality that will change the course of her and her families’ lives forever.
