Munich, 1 December 2025. The eight-hour drama series Other People’s Money about the biggest tax fraud in European history keeps sweeping the awards: The series has recently been honored with Austria’s prestigious ROMY Industry Award in the category Best Production, after Justus von Dohnányi won the German Bambi Award for Best Actor (national) for his role as the unscrupulous banker Bernd Hausner in the drama series.

World premiered at this year’s Berlinale, 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 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 the fraud – but states and banks seem to prevent their efforts at all costs.

“One can only marvel at their protagonists," reports Germany’s Die Zeit, while many other international media praised the series as “perfectly formed, eight-part masterpiece” (Der Spiegel), "highly sophisticated" (Cineuropa), with “captivating dialog, contradictory characters and pointed scenes,” while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung summarizes: “pace, atmosphere, clarity: (…) Other People’s Money shines.”

This year, the series already won the Hessian TV Award and was nominated at the German TV Awards and the Seoul Drama Awards.

The series is directed by Dustin Loose (Divided We Stand) and Kaspar Munk (The Rain, Kamikaze). The screenplay was written by Jan Schomburg (I’m Your Man, Above Us Only Sky). The research was conducted by investigative journalists Oliver Schröm, Christian Salewski, Niels Fastrup, and Thomas G. Svaneborg.

Inspired by true events and the research by Oliver Schröm (Die Cum-Ex-Files and Die Akte Scholz) and Christian Salewski, Niels Fastrup , 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 (with NRK, SVT, RUV, YLE, NPO, and VRT). It was co-funded with the support of Fisa+, GMPF, the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, The Nordvisions Fund, and the Croatian Audiovisual Center. Beta Film handles international sales.