The time has finally come: the German-French co-production OUIJA is coming to television. Sadly not yet in Germany, but on French television this six-part miniseries of 52-minute episodes, with Anton Petzold as a German exchange student in 1980s France, can now be watched.
The series follows a group of French and German teenagers who come together as exchange students in the Ardèche in the summer of 1982 and become caught up in a murder investigation that puts them on the trail of a long-hidden secret. In doing so, they set themselves against their teachers, parents and grandparents — all against the backdrop of the notorious 1982 Football World Cup. In the broadest sense, Ouija attempts to paint a structured and multi-layered picture of what it took to forge a closer Franco-German relationship, at a time when there was, on the one hand, an almost unprecedented friendship between the two countries, while on the other it was burdened by the heavy weight of their shared history, particularly the Second World War. It is precisely this history that is told from the perspective of the protagonists.
Production: KWAÏ and Bigwindow Production
Director: Thomas Bourguignon
Casting: Maria Rölcke — CMR Casting GbR