Filming for ZDF thrillers Die Polizin start in Frankfurt!

Filming for ZDF thrillers Die Polizin start in Frankfurt!

In Frankfurt, actress Thelma Buabeng started filming for the new ZDF thriller "The Police and Deriastill". Buabeng plays the leading role as BKA commissioner Gloria Acheampong. The film's final scene is currently being shot after production started in the city on May 21. The first part of the series, "the policewoman and the language of death", was already very popular with six million viewers.

The new episode of the crime series focuses on the Frankfurt drug milieu. Commissioner Acheampong is called for a mission after a vacation in Ghana, which includes a central scene with a shot colleague in the trunk of a car. Buabeng, who has lived in Germany since the age of four, expresses that she was often set on cliché roles in the film industry and sees parallels in her figure in her figure.

variety and representation in the film

Buabeng speaks for more diversity in German film and emphasizes that she has experienced a decline in diversity since the Black Live Matt movement. This problem is also underlined by the diversity initiative group in the film. According to a survey of the experiences of over 6,000 filmmakers in Germany, it can be seen that discrimination is a serious problem and limits the participation of people with different diversity references. According to the analysis carried out by Citizens for Europe, it is important to initiate a dialogue about representation in the film and television industry.

The fractures with stereotypical narratives are at the center of the ZDF crime series, the success of which shows that the audience is willing to accept stories that promote diversity and realistic representations. Buabeng hopes that such projects will help combat discrimination in the film industry and to create more space for different perspectives.

parallel to the filming of "The Policeist", a Wiesbaden crime scene with Felix Murot is also produced, which increases the multicultural atmosphere in the region, which is attractive for many filmmakers and offers numerous creative opportunities.