Other Peoples Moneyplays in the Panorama section at theBerlin Film Festival.
The German writer and director is speaking to Deadline from his Berlin Film Festival base.
I started to do some research and I found the characters involved in the real case really interesting.
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The duo team up to illegally work the angles on the tax rules.
Schomburgs take was to give their relationship a rom-com spin.
You dont have to say yes, immediately.
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you might think about it.
[Sven] says: I dont have to think about it, yes, I do.
But that is not a sign of what follows.
He speaks of a weird philosophical emptiness at the heart of the perpetrators of the fraud.
I always asked myself, why are they doing it?
They already have a lot of money.
Then they get more and then they dont do anything with it.
They just pay it into some bank accounts.
Making a TV series was the hardest work Schomburg has ever done, he says.
Its crazy industrial work and its also nice somehow.
You dont think: Do I feel like writing?
You get into this industrial process.
You just have to do it.
The story that inspiredOther Peoples Moneyis public record.
There are some very inspiring people who show us that we can fight and we can win.
