'Crooks': Trailer and Key Art for the New Series with Frederick Lau and Christoph Krutzler 

Production company: W&B Television

Creator & Showrunner: Marvin Kren

Co-creators: Benjamin Hessler, Georg Lippert

Producers: Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann

Directors: Marvin Kren, Cüneyt Kaya

Editors: Jan Hille, Christoph Loidl and Christoph Brunner

Music: Stefan Will, Schallbauer

Director of Photography: Xiaosu Han, Andreas Thalhammer

Production Design: Verena Wagner

Cast: Frederick Lau, Christoph Krutzler, Svenja Jung, Karl Welunschek, Georg Friedrich, Jonathan Tittel, Kida Khodr Ramadan, Erdal Yıldız, Nima Yaghobi (a.k.a. Nimo), Lukas Watzl, Maya Unger, Jan Georg Schütte, Robert Finster, Veysel Gelin, Branko Samarovski, Brigitte Kren, and Virginie Peignien

Streaming worldwide on Netflix starting April 4, 2024!

A meticulously planned robbery with an unforeseen twist – the theft of a valuable golden coin ends in catastrophe, and former safe cracker Charly (Frederick Lau) suddenly finds himself with Viennese driver Joseph (Christoph Krutzler) on the most dangerous escape of their lives once again. Everyone wants the coin, and everyone wants revenge: a Berlin gang, a Viennese red-light district kingpin, a Russian underground boss, and even the Corsican mafia. A wild road trip from Berlin to Vienna to Marseille begins. In order to survive, the two unwilling accomplices have to work together. 

About Crooks

Charly and his family live a quiet life in Berlin until his dark past catches up with him. Old associates threaten his family and force him to steal a valuable coin. Joseph, the driver for a Vienna gang, is there to take the loot safely to Austria. However, the carefully crafted plan falls apart, culminating in a deadly shootout. Charly and Joseph find their fates inextricably tangled as they are forced to flee and get Charly's family to safety. In search of themselves and desperately trying to save what's important to them, the two crooks will have to hold their own against gangs from Berlin, Vienna, and Marseille. Their only hope for success is to trust in their friendship with each other. It's the start of an adventurous and action-packed road trip across three countries for the both of them.

About W&B Television

For 20 years, Wiedemann & Berg has been creating high-quality and successful films and series. Since 2020, Wiedemann & Berg Film and W&B Television have been part of LEONINE Studios, which was co-founded by Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg.

The company's more than 160 productions include the Oscar®-winning film The Lives of Others, two-time Oscar® nominee Never Look Away, and numerous top hits including Who Am I and Nightlife. Weekend Rebels  and international biopic Girl You Know It's True are currently in theaters, with Everything's Fifty Fifty coming out in fall 2024.

Other acclaimed productions include numerous series for TV and international streaming platforms, like the first German Netflix Original, Dark, and cult series 4 Blocks (Warner TV Serie), as well as The Pass (Sky), Para – We are King (Warner TV Series), The Gryphon (Amazon Prime Video), One Trillion Dollars (Paramount+) and Testo (ARD).

The successful production house has been nominated for and won multiple awards, including the Academy Awards®, Bambis, Bavarian TV Awards, Bavarian Film Awards, Deutscher Fernsehpreis and Deutscher Filmpreis (Lola), Caméra d'Or, Ehrenpreis at the FernsehfilmFestival Baden-Baden, Golden Nymph Award, Grimme-Preis, GQ Award, European Film Awards, Hollywood Reporter Award, LA Critics Award, Magnolia Award, Rockie Award, BAFTAs, Césars, Romys and Golden Globes.

About Marvin Kren

Marvin Kren, born in 1980, studied directing at the Hamburg Media School (HMS). His graduation film, Schautag, received the Max Ophüls Prize in 2009. Horror film Rammbock followed shortly thereafter in 2010, for which he won, among other things, the Vienna Film Prize at the Viennale. His film Blutgletscher celebrated its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

After four episodes of long-running police procedural Tatort and historical thriller Berlin 1 followed series 4 Blocks, for which he was director and showrunner and which won him the Grimme Prize and the Deutschen Fernsehpreis in 2017, among others.

In 2019, the Netflix/ORF co-production of thriller series Freud was released, for which he worked as creator, director and screenwriter. Crime comedy Der weiße Kobold followed in 2022, which, like Freud, won the Romy. He is the showrunner, writer and director of gangster series Crooks.