BARBARIANS II - premiering October 21 exclusively and worldwide on Netflix Key Art and First Look images available now

Directors: Stefan Ruzowitzky (episodes 1-3 & 6), Lennart Ruff (episodes 4-6)

Producer: Andreas Bareiss

Executive Producers: Sabine de Mardt, Rainer Marquass

Executive Producers: Lennart Ruff, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Jake Coburn

Costume Design: Esther Walz

DOP: Artur Reinhart, Jacek Podgórski

Music: Volker Bertelmann

Set Design: Grzegorz Piatkowski

Make Up: Charlotte Chang 

VFX Supervisor: Nico Leu

Cast: Jeanne Goursaud, Laurence Rupp, David Schütter, Daniel Donskoy, Murathan Muslu, Cynthia Micas, Katharina Heyer, Giovanni Carta, Alessandro Fella, Bernhard Schütz 

Production: Gaumont GmbH for Netflix

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Berlin, August 25, 2022 - Soon the wait will be over: Starting October 21, 2022, the heroes and heroines of the German hit series Barbarians are going to continue their fight for independence against Rome. New enemies and allies, impressive battles, passion and betrayal – in season 2 Thusnelda (Jeanne Goursaud), Ari (Laurence Rupp), and Folkwin (David Schütter) face many challenges. They are joined by exciting new characters, portrayed by Daniel Donskoy, Murathan Muslu, and Cynthia Micas, among others.

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About Barbarians II

One year after the Varus Battle the Roman troops have returned to Germania, stronger than ever, and Ari is confronted with his Roman past once more. His brother has joined the Roman side in order to punish Ari for his betrayal of Rome. While Thusnelda and Ari join forces to unite the tribes against Rome, Folkwin ominously challenges the gods.

About Gaumont

Gaumont is the oldest continuously active film studio in the world. Since 1897, the French family company has been producing high-quality fictional films, including classics like The Big Blue, Léon: The Professional, La Boum – The Party and The Intouchables.

With its subsidiary in Los Angeles, founded in 2011, Gaumont has also opened up to the US market. For Netflix, the successful series Narcos and Hemlock Grove were produced, among other things, and Hannibal for NBC. Since 2018, Gaumont also creates and produces from its German branch office. In its first two years and under the direction of Sabine de Mardt, the Gaumont GmbH with offices in Cologne and Berlin have already produced the bestseller adaptation 9 Tage wach for ProSieben and the historical series Barbarians for Netflix. In the last year the high-class comedy series Die Wespe (Sky Studios by Jan Berger and Westwall for ZDF (Neoriginal), the captivating adaptation of the Benedikt Gollhardt thriller, followed. Currently, besides the second season of Barbarians, the German Gaumont branch is producing the mini series Was zählt (ZDF), additional seasons for Die Wespe (Sky), and the WDR TV movie Nichts, was uns passiert. 

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