The Norwegian political comedy “Power Play” wins the best series in the Cannes series

Norwegian comedy series power play won the Best Series award in the Canneseries International Competition.

The series – originally named Makta and written by Silje Storstein, Kristin Grue and Johan Fasting – is for Norwegian publishers NRK and NDR and by Novemberfilm, which is owned by Motlys and Fremantle. REinvent International Sales has distribution rights.

stuck (home track, ninja baby) is the showrunner and Kathrine Thorborg Johansen, the star of Jan Gunnar Røise.

power play is billed as “the incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, a young doctor who campaigned for self-determined abortion in the late 1970s when she almost accidentally ended up in politics.” As the government crumbles around her, Gro learns to play her own power games and rises through the ranks until she is the last woman standing in the ruins of Labour’s celebrated social democracy, ending up in 1981 as Norway’s first female prime minister.

The 12-episode series also won the Best Music Award, with Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim, Andrea Louise Horstad, Kristoffer Lo and Eivind Helgerød directing this part of the show.

The best screenplay went to Korea bargain, which had its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, France. Woo-Sung Jeon, Byeong-Yun Choi and Jae-Min Kwak wrote the scripts.

The six-episode series from SLL and Climax Studio is for Korean streamers TVING and Paramount+, with Paramount Global Content Distribution on sale. It’s about a man who accidentally ends up in a human organ auction and offers his body parts for sale. Just as his kidney is being sold, an earthquake causes the building to collapse and the plot unfolds – completely according to the script.

It was released in Korea last year.

Israeli series are among the other winners of the Canneseries awards, which take place tonight in the French city Cord And Carthagewhich won the best performance and special acting awards respectively, and The left-handed boy, who won the abbreviated game. Belgian documentary series Drag for a change!about female cartoonists, won the award for best documentary series.

This was the sixth Cannes series. The festival runs alongside Mip TV, which ended today after three days of sales meetings, keynotes and conference sessions.