Unwanted: the new Sky series on the suffering of migrants

After the success and quality guaranteed by wonderful series such as The miracle, Anna, Christian, Devils And The New Popethe Sky Original catalog is enriched with another big hit: it is Unwanted, the new eight-episode series written by Stefano Bises whose filming is still in progress. Freely taken from Bilalthe investigative book by the journalist Fabrizio Gatti, Unwanted tells the story of the Orizzontea gigantic cruise ship that sails in the Mediterranean until it hosts twenty-eight African migrants among its corridors and cabins who survived the sinking of a boat on which they were trying to reach Italy.

For them, the Orizzonte represents the pass for a better future, while for the passengers that meeting is just a bath of reality that they would have gladly done without. When migrants discover that the ship is headed for Libya, the same country from which they are fleeing, the balance is up, making the ship fertile ground for a microcosm in which cruelty, pain, intolerance and preconceptions will dominate. , bringing migrants and passengers to an inevitable confrontation. Produced by Sky Studios together with Pantaleon Films and Indiana Production, Unwanteddirected by Oliver Hirschbiegelalready behind the camera of big titles like The Fall – Hitler’s Last Days And The shadow of vengeance – Five Minutes of Heaven, it is an extraordinary journey that takes us into a hot topic of current affairs enriching it with a range of emotions within which each of us will find a piece of himself.

The cast that will see, among others, is very rich Marco Bocci, Jessica Schwarz, Dada Fungula Bozela, Hassan Najib, Jonathan Berlin, Jason Derek Prempeh, Cecilia Dazzi, Francesco Acquaroli, Barbara Auer, Sylvester Groth, Marco Palvetti, Denise CapezzaNuala Peberdy, Samuel Kalambay, Amadou Mbow, Edward Apeagyei, Reshny N’Kouka, Onyinye Odokoro, Massimo De Lorenzo and Scot Williams. Unwanted is written by Stefano Bises with the collaboration of Alessandro Valenti, Bernardo Pellegrini and Michela Straniero, and produced for Pantaleon by Dan Maag, Marco Beckmann, Patrick Zorer, Stephanie Schettler-Koehler and by the producer Sascha Rosemann who, first, had the idea of ​​adapting the book by Fabrizio Gatti, for Indiana by Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli and Marco Cohen. Executive producers for Sky Studios Nils Hartmann and Sonia Rovai. NBCUniversal Global Distribution is the international distributor on behalf of Sky Studios.

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