‘So Long, Marianne’ Series, With Alex Wolff As Leonard Cohen, Tunes Up New International Deals — MIPCOM

EXCLUSIVE: Leonard Cohen drama So Long, Marianne will play in a raft of new territories after Cineflix cut new distribution deals for the buzzy project, which played in competition at Series Mania.

The series tells the love story of Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen, and an extraordinary Norwegian woman, Marianne Ihlen who inspired the titular song. Alex Wolff (A Quiet Place: Day One) plays Cohen and Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Last Kingdom) Marianne.

The majority of the project was filmed on the Greek island of Hydra where the pair lived in the 1960s. There, they joined legendary Australian novelists Charmian Clift (Anna Torv) and her husband George Johnston (Noah Taylor), and a bohemian group of writers, artists, poets. They were exploring a world of free love and artistic freedom, but also experiencing the rivalries that accompanied their interwoven lives.

Following premieres in Norway on NRK, Canada on Crave, Germany on ARD, and ITVX in the UK, Cineflix Rights has secured deals for the series in the Baltics and CEE region. Czech TV, ERR (Estonia), HRT (Croatia), and TET (Latvia) have bought the series. The deals follow others, recently announced, with Movistar Plus+ in Spain and Australia’s SBS.

Redpoint Productions, Tanweer Productions, and C3 Media made the eight-part drama, which was produced by Ingeborg Klyve and Glenn Lund. 

“So Long, Marianne is one of the most iconic love stories of the last century, set in one of the most beautiful locations in the world, and is getting rave reviews from the critics in all the territories it’s launched in so far,” said Cineflix Rights Sales VP Lucy Rawson, who brokered the latest deals.