STORY

The world's current population exceeds 8.1 billion people and is projected to rise to 10 billion by 2050. There are concerns that this population growth could lead to major global challenges. The World Economic Forum (WEF) aims to establish a new world order with the implication of Agenda 30. This plan requires a significant decrease in the global population. While the plot of 8 BILLION is fictional, the concerns it raises are real and reflect the real challenges that may lie ahead in the not-too-distant future.

Berlinale 2025

Our presentation at the Berlinale was a great success.

Film buyers from all over the world as well as international press agents were enthusiastic about our film screening.

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PAST AND FUTURE


The filming of CONTAMIN began in Ukraine in 2020. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, more than 140 minutes of footage had been shot by the end of 2021. The remaining footage was supposed to be completed in Kyiv in April 2022. However, the war began on  February 24, 2022, and filming was postponed indefinitely.


Due to the uncertain duration of the war, the decision was made to rewrite the script and change the original working title to 

8 BILLION. Filming has recommenced in Switzerland and will be completed in Thailand in  October 2024. We firmly believe

that 8 BILLION will be a mini-series that can compete with many major international series.

CAST

Alan Burgon

Alan Burgon is a film and stage actor, and has also created a name for himself in the world of audio drama for his role as The Interviewer in The Amelia Project, a podcast with over 2 Million downloads to date. As well as appearing in feature films such as Grimm’s Snow White Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Thank You For Bombing by Barbara Eder, and Heroes and Cowards by Harald Franklin, He will also air on German television in October in the role of David Murphy for the Tatort film Blind Date, playing opposite Heike Makatsch. Alan co-founded Vienna’s Open House Theatre Company in 2012, and was the Creative Director until 2018, when he handed it over to focus on other areas of his career. Alan is also a screenplay writer, writer of stage plays, and frequently collaborates on various scripts as a dialogue editor and translator from German into English.

Sergey Denga

Sergey Denga. Born in Odessa, Ukraine on June 28, 1971. He received his first higher education in Odessa, graduating from the Polytechnic University, specializing in organic chemistry. Then he graduated from the acting school of the Odessa Film Studio. He was also educated in Los Angeles, USA, Graduating from the New York Film Academy majoring in film actor. He is filming in Ukrainian and international projects. Sergey's filmography for today includes one hundred television series and feature films. He also works in a theater in his hometown. He speaks English, Russian and Ukrainian. "I love my job and I think that this is my vocation!"

Kate Vostrikova

Kate Vostrikova is an international actress, who was born in Latvia into a Russian family. She speaks and works in English, Russian and Ukrainian. Her career started in Ukraine right after her first year of training in the Kiev National Theatre and Cinema University. She appeared as a lead character in several TV series for the Ukrainian national television. She continued her training in the world-famous Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the United Kingdom. Since then, she has been working on various independent films and TV series all over the world.

Philippe Reinhardt

In 2010 Philippe Reinhardt starred in the feature film Simplify your soul for the screenwriter and director Markus Boestfleisch. By 2012 he also started being cast in international productions, most notably Andrey Malyukov's historical World War II soccer-drama Match and Fedor Bondarchuk's 3D-production Stalingrad, which was Russia's official entry for the foreign-language Oscars in 2013.

He gained notoriety mainly through his starring role in "The Groom", the most successful Russian film 2016 in Russia with 3 million moviegoers and more than 20 million viewers of the free-TV premiere.

In 2018 he played in the Russian war drama film Sobibor that is based on the real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor death camp in German-occupied Poland. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.


PRODUCTION INFORMATION


Genre: Thriller

Feature Film: 100 min

Series: Season 1 (4 Episodes 44 min)

Country: Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, Zanzibar

Language: English

Status: Completed Juli 2025


Written and directed by:

Harald Franklin


Cast

Sergey Denga, Alan Burgon, Anthony Straeger, Kate Vostrikova,

Erika Joy Mitschrich, Phillip Reinhardt, Jean-Marc Birkholz, Liza May