Drama Quarterly
  • Newsletter
  • Articles
  • Categories
    • DQ100
    • DQ TV
    • Fact File
    • First Look
    • Five Minutes with
    • Greenlight
    • IN FOCUS
    • In production
    • Job Description
    • ON LOCATION
    • Ones to Watch
    • Remade Abroad
    • SCENE STEALERS
    • SHOWRUNNER
    • SIX OF THE BEST
    • STAR POWER
    • The Director’s Chair
    • The Writers Room
    • Trailer park
    • Trendspotting
    • WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT
  • About
  • Contact
  • The Magazine
  • Home
  • >
  • Tag: Arte

Articles about Arte

ARTE

Worth watching

The stories of Swedish soldiers operating during the Bosnian War are dramatised in six-part drama A Life’s Worth. Writer Mona Masri and director Ahmed Abdullahi speak to DQ about creating this suspenseful and hopeful military series that finds its characters walking the line between duty and humanity.  

ARTE

Reimagining Bergman

How do you take on the work of Ingmar Bergman? Director Tomas Alfredson and writer Sara Johnsen tell DQ how they reimagined the influential Swedish filmmaker’s work by adapting his 2000 feature Trolösa (Faithless) into a six-part series.

ARTE

Movistar Plus+ celebrates The New Years

FIRST LOOK: Iria del Río (El Inmortal) and Francesco Carril (Galgos) star in Spanish romantic drama Los Años Nuevos (The New Years), which is coming soon to streamer Movistar Plus+.

ARTE

Haus work

Creating a thriller around a large ensemble of characters and unexpectedly shooting in a foreign country threw up plenty of challenges for Haus aus Glas (Inside a Family) writer Esther Bernstorff and director Alain Gsponer. They tell DQ how they made it work.

ARTE

Six of the Best: Olivier Wotling

The former head of drama at French-German network Arte, who is now a producer at Asacha Media-backed Mintee Studio, picks half-a-dozen shows that represent the best of global drama.

ARTE

Emotional baggage

Lost Luggage screenwriter Tiny Bertels and director Nathalie Basteyns reflect on making the Belgian drama, which is set in the aftermath of the real-life Brussels Airport terrorist attack as one woman takes on the task of returning abandoned luggage.

ARTE

Good to be bad

The creators of Belgian dark comedy Des Gens Bien (Good People) reveal how their follow-up to crime drama La Trêve (The Break) blends thriller and comedy as a couple’s insurance scam spirals out of control.

ARTE

Faroese fare

As Faroese drama Trom makes its UK debut, the cast and production team behind the series discuss filming challenges, language complications and why Nordic noir is still in demand.

ARTE

The incredible Hulík

After winning acclaim with Horícï ker (Burning Bush) and Pustina (Wasteland), Czech screenwriter Štěpán Hulík again draws on real-life events to leave viewers asking more questions in four-part drama Podezření (Suspicion).

ARTE

Breaking the Silence

Director Dalibor Matanić and actor Kseniia Mishina talk to DQ about Šutnja (The Silence), a crime drama based on real events and set between Croatia and Ukraine.

ARTE

Roped in

Co-creators Dominique Rocher and Eric Forestier discuss their eagerly anticipated three-part drama La Corde (The Rope) and why TV is better in the cinema.

ARTE

Making Manayek

Israeli drama Manayek won multiple awards this year for its story of a veteran cop working a police corruption case in which his best friend is the prime suspect. Writer Roy Iddan and producer Yoav Gross reveal how they made it.

ARTE

Slowing down

Director Eric Toledano opens up about producing En Thérapie, the French adaptation of Israel’s BeTipul (In Treatment), and reveals why this quiet series is the perfect antidote to an increasingly fast-paced world.

ARTE

Fresh territory

Co-creator Maria Feldman and stars Mélanie Thierry and James Purefoy speak to DQ about how No Man’s Land, an eight-part thriller set against the backdrop of the Syrian War, offers a new perspective of the conflict.

ARTE

Criminal genes

Forbrydelsen (The Killing) writer Torleif Hoppe speaks to DQ about the genre-defining Danish series and how his latest crime drama, DNA, flips the script on its leading detective.

ARTE

Under the surface

Director Julien Trousselier tells DQ how he added a splash of realism to French sirens-focused drama Une Île (Apnea), the latest in a slew of shows about the mythological beings.

ARTE

The Lynč effect

What started as a teaching exercise became a landmark coproduction between Czech Television and Arte in the shape of drama series Lynč (The Lynching). DQ speaks to showrunner Harold Apter about creating the Czech show and bringing the US creative process to Europe.

ARTE

Staying alive

Writer-director Thomas Cailley introduces DQ to Ad Vitam, a French sci-fi thriller in which two detectives are tasked to investigate a mass suicide in a futuristic world in which death has been ‘cured.’

ARTE

Stars on show

Television held its own at one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world as an array of talent and some stunning new shows landed in Germany for Berlinale’s fourth annual Drama Series Days. DQ was in town to find out more.

ARTE

Monkey business

Comedy drama Kim Kong retells an unbelievable and compelling true story for French broadcaster Arte. Thomas Bourguignon from producer Kwai Productions tells DQ about the series.

See more articles

Copyright 2025 · All rights reserved

  • Newsletter
  • Articles
  • Categories
    ▼
    • DQ100
    • DQ TV
    • Fact File
    • First Look
    • Five Minutes with
    • Greenlight
    • IN FOCUS
    • In production
    • Job Description
    • ON LOCATION
    • Ones to Watch
    • Remade Abroad
    • SCENE STEALERS
    • SHOWRUNNER
    • SIX OF THE BEST
    • STAR POWER
    • The Director’s Chair
    • The Writers Room
    • Trailer park
    • Trendspotting
    • WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT
  • About
  • Contact
  • The Magazine