'The Heartbreak Agency' - Coming February 14, 2024 – Exclusively on Netflix

Director: Shirel Peleg

Screenplay: Antonia Rothe-Liermann, Malte Welding 

Director of Photography: Stephan Burchardt

Producer: Nataly Kudiabor (UFA Fiction)

Executive Producers: Leonie Franziska Geisinger, Leslie-Alina Schäfer

Production: UFA Fiction GmbH

Cast: Rosalie Thomass (Maria), Laurence Rupp (Karl), Cora Trube (Hedi), Jerry Hoffmann, Jakob Schreier, Denise M’Baye, Özgür Karadeniz, Charleen Deetz, Margarethe Tiesel, Paula Schramm, Arash Marandi, Maria Hofstätter, Timur Isik, Amélie Miloy, and more.

The jilted, the cheated-on, the rebounds — Maria (Rosalie Thomass) helps her heartbroken clients get over their sadness. In the agency she founded for this purpose, the single mom finds the perfect medicine for everyone's heartbreak. But when she talks one of her unhappy clients out of her relationship with the commitment-phobic journalist Karl (Laurence Rupp), things take a turn. The newly dumped Karl wants to get back at Maria by exposing her as a heartbreak fraud. His research leads him to therapy with Maria, and the game of cat-and-mouse begins…

The Heartbreak Agency is loosely based on the successful self-help book "Goodbye Herzschmerz" (Goodbye Heartache) by Elena-Katharina Sohn, and her eponymous Heartbreak Agency (Die Liebeskümmerer). In 2011, after splitting with her former life partner, Sohn founded the agency in Berlin, where she helps those suffering from heartache or break to move on from the pain. She collected her experiences from working with her clients and wrote the German bestseller "Anleitung zum Wieder-Glücklichsein" (How to Be Happy Again).

Coming February 14, 2024 – exclusively on Netflix.

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The Heartbreak Agency, a Netflix film, is a production of UFA Fiction. Antonia Rothe-Liermann (THE WALL BETWEEN US, BARBARIANS) wrote the screenplay together with Malte Welding (ES IST NUR EINE PHASE, HASE; TEXT FOR YOU). The heartwarming comedy is directed and produced by an all-woman team, with director Shirel Peleg (KISS ME KOSHER, TATORT: DIE NACHT DER KOMISSARE), producer Nataly Kudiabor (ALL YOU NEED, THE MOPES), and executive producers Leonie Franziska Geisinger and Leslie-Alina Schäfer.

About The Heartbreak Agency

Who's lovesick these days? When a cynical journalist sets out to expose the charming founder of a heartbreak agency as a fake, he grapples with his own capacity for love. The Heartbreak Agency is a romcom loosely based on the eponymous agency (Die Liebeskümmerer) run by Elena-Katharina Sohn and her bestselling self-help book "Goodbye Heartache". 

About Elena-Katharina Sohn

Elena-Katharina Sohn is the founder of the Berlin-based agency Die Liebeskümmerer, which loosely translates to "The Heartbreak Agency." Since 2011, she and her team have offered psychological services specializing in heartbreak, love, and relationships. Her bestselling self-help book Goodbye Heartache (Goodbye Herzschmerz, Ullstein Verlag) is the inspiration for the Netflix production. The Book Your Heart Wants You to Read (Das Buch, das dein Herz gern lesen würde, Heyne Verlag), coming January 2024, is the author's fourth book.

About UFA Fiction

Bringing the top creatives from the world of German television under one roof, UFA Fiction has been generating ratings successes and exceptional fictional programs for years. The firm encompasses UFA's production activities in series, TV movies, events, and big-screen productions, which form a notable portfolio that has shaped the German television landscape. In addition to being big hits with the viewing public, many of its productions have seen success abroad and won various national and international TV and film awards, including two International Emmy Awards. The company's portfolio includes the hit movies THE PHYSICIAN and ALL ABOUT ME, event and high-end drama formats like GENERATION WAR, DEUTSCHLAND83/86/89, CHARITÉ 1/2/3, KU’DAMM 56/59/63, FAKING HITLER, and SAM – A SAXON, as well as popular, long-running crime series like EIN STARKES TEAM, DIE DIPLOMATIN, and SOKO LEIPZIG, among many others. The Managing Directors of UFA Fiction are Markus Brunnemann, Nataly Kudiabor, Ulrike Leibfried, and Sebastian Werninger.

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