REinvent International Sales has confirmed two new deals for Gustav Möller’s series The Dark Heart, with VRT for Belgium and NPB for The Netherlands.
More territories are being negotiated now.
The series premiered at Sundance’s Indie Episodic section and is screening at the EFM this week. REinvent previously closed deals with Spain (A Contracorriente Films) and Poland (Monolith). Discovery+ has UK and Scandinavian rights.
The five-part psychological drama is produced by Anna Carlsten and Caroline Landerber for FLX/Discovery+, with Film i Skåne as co-producers.
Möller co-created the series with writer Oskar Söderlund, whose credits include the Easy Money series and Rebecka Martinsson. Söderlund writes all five episodes, based on the book The Dark Heart: A True Story Of Greed, Murder, And An Unlikely Investigator by journalist Joakim Palmkvist. The book and the series inspired by real events in rural Sweden of forbidden love and a tragic murder – when a missing person’s case is investigated by a volunteer involved in the search party.
The cast is led by Gustav Lindh – acclaimed as the young lead of Queen Of Hearts – and Clara Christiansson Drake, whose credits include Faro and HBO’s Gösta.
Möller’s film credits include Sundance 2018 hit The Guilty; The Dark Heart is his first TV series.
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