Munich, 23 March 2025. Beta Film’s captivating financial thriller Other People’s Money has continued to awe the audience in Germany. Celebrated with standing ovations after the World Premiere screening in the Berlinale Panorama Section, German critics now chimed in on the praise. The ZDF/DR series by Babylon Berlin producer X-Filme became available on ZDF’s streaming service and will bow linear later in April.

The story of how a criminal network of megarich investors, bankers, and lawyers stole 146 billion Euros from European taxpayers was described as “incredibly exciting and as entertaining as it is informative” by German regional public broadcaster NDR, the Spiegel hails a “perfectly formed, eight-part masterpiece”, Blickpunkt Film celebrates “captivating dialog, contradictory characters and pointed scenes” and “feverish dramaturgy and excellent acting”, while FAZ concludes “pace, atmosphere, clarity: (…)Other People’s Money shines”.

Other People’s Money by showrunner/creator Jan Schomburg (I’m Your Man; Above Us Only Sky) is inspired by the “CumEx-Files” investigation by European news media outlets that uncovered a global finance network which defrauded European state treasuries, and thus every European citizen, of almost 150 billion Euros. The eight-hour series follows the culprits, as well as two women from two different countries trying to put a stop to it – but the states and the banks seem to prevent their efforts at all costs.

The series stars Lisa Wagner (From Hilde, With Love; The Pool), Karen-Lise Mynster (Madame Ida), Justus von Dohnanyi (Downfall), Nils Strunk, David Dencik (No Time to Die; Chernobyl), and Fabian Hinrichs (Divided We Stand), among others. Dustin Loose (Divided We Stand) and Kaspar Munk (The Rain; Kamikaze) share directing credits. Directors of Photography are Clemens Baumeister (Divided We Stand) and Laust Trier Mørk (The Responder).

Inspired by true events and the research by Oliver Schröm (Die Cum-Ex-Files and Die Akte Scholz) and Christian Salewski, Niels Fastrup (Det Store Skatterøveri), and Thomas G. Svaneborg, Other People’s Money is produced X Filme Creative Pool and True Content Entertainment in co-production with EPO- Film, ZDF and DR in co-production with New8.

The series will be broadcast on ZDF on April 13 and 14 at 22.15 and is now available to stream on the ZDF Mediathek.