CROOKS – What's going on with the coin? Netflix confirms Season 2

Production company: W&B Television

Creator & Showrunner: Marvin Kren

Producers: Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann

Cast: Frederick Lau, Christoph Krutzler

Click HERE for the clip with Frederick Lau and Christoph Krutzler.

Berlin, June 24, 2024: To Charly (Frederick Lau), Berlin seems to be back to normal: After a nerve-wracking road trip with driver and unwilling accomplice Joseph (Christoph Krutzler) through Vienna to Marseille, and the rescue of his family from the hands of the Corsican mafia in Season 1 of CROOKS, the story of the golden coin is far from over! Netflix has now confirmed a second season of the hit series from showrunner Marvin Kren.

In Season 2, our two heroes are once again on a wild journey to find the coin. Creator, showrunner, director and author Marvin Kren is excited about the next season: "I can't give away too much, but if we were to compare Season 2 to a Viennese dish, it would probably be a very, very spicy one. Probably a Käsekrainer (sausage with cheese), in this case with a good amount of chopped fiery red and green chili peppers—and a strong drink to wash it down. While you won't find this in regular sausage shops, we're offering it in the form of a series. We will once again follow Charly and Joseph all over the world on the wildest, most ludicrous, most exciting, most touching and at the same time most authentic gangster adventure."

The first season was already "exhilaratingly entertaining" (Spiegel.de), a "fast-paced road trip full of exciting twists and underdog flair" (Berlin Times), because "Kren knows how to keep viewers glued to the screen with adrenaline rushes" (Cinema). Audiences agreed: After its launch, Crooks took international Netflix premiers by storm and remained in the top 10 non-English-language series for four weeks. In its second week, Crooks even climbed to second place among all Netflix series, both English and non-English, and got millions of views worldwide.

Season 2 continues the wild gangster, action, buddy comedy and road movie mashup. Newspaper Bild am Sonntag describes the series as "tough, breathless and with great Viennese humor." And this is exactly how the infernal duo, consisting of good-natured Joseph and clever former burglar Charly, the "Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in noir" (according to Kren), will soon continue.

About Crooks Season 1

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 more than 20 years, Wiedemann & Berg has been creating high-quality and successful theatrical films and series. Wiedemann & Berg Film was founded in 2003 by Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann, and W&B Television followed in 2010. The more than 160 productions include Oscar®-winning feature film The Lives of the Others, two-time Oscar®-nominated Never Look Away, and numerous top hits, including Who Am I and Nightlife. Last year, The Three ??? – Heir of the Dragon, Weekend Rebels, and international biopic Girl You Know It’s True were released in theaters. Comedy Everything's Fifty-Fifty is scheduled for theatrical release in the summer of 2024. Other acclaimed productions include numerous series for international streaming platforms, like the first German Netflix Original, Dark, and cult series 4 Blocks and Para – We are King for Warner TV, series The Pass as one of the first originals for Sky, The Gryphon for Amazon Prime Video, One Trillion Dollars for Paramount+ and the successful Netflix series Crooks, Season 1. The successful production company has been nominated for and won multiple awards, including Academy Awards®, Bambis, Bavarian TV Awards, Bavarian Film Awards, the German Television Awards, the German Film Awards (Lola), the Caméra d'Or, the Ehrenpreis at the FernsehfilmFestival Baden-Baden, the Golden Nymph Award, the Grimme-Preis, the GQ Award, the European Film Awards, the Hollywood Reporter Award, the LA Critics Award, the Magnolia Award, the 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: Berlin Undead followed shortly thereafter in 2010, for which he won, among other things, the Vienna Film Prize at the Viennale. His film Blood Glacier 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 The White Goblin followed in 2022, which, like Freud, won the Romy. He is the showrunner, writer and director of gangster series Crooks.

About Netflix

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