A new official trailer for the upcoming German-language Netflix Original series Kleo has just been released, displaying a criminal drama with personality, action, and fun.
Is “Kleo” based on a true story?
“Kleo” is based on a true story. Kleo is centered around a lady named Kleo Straub, who is played by Jella Haase. Hanno Hackfort, Richard Kropf, and Bob Konrad, a writing and producing team whose previous works include the TV series 4 Blocks and the first German-language Amazon Original You Are Wanted, wrote and produced it. She is an ex-assassin from East Germany who, like The Bride in Kill Bill, commits murders on the spur of the moment.
In West Berlin in 1987, Kleo kills a businessman on orders from the Stasi. As a result, she is set up, promptly taken into custody by the Stasi—the same state surveillance agency she worked for—and demonized by everyone in her social circle. After suffering through two grueling years in prison, Kleo is finally freed as the Berlin Wall falls. She soon begins to understand the true scope of the scheme that had her imprisoned; it is far more extensive and complex than she could have ever anticipated. As a West Berlin police officer called Sven pursues her, Kleo leaves in pursuit of information and retribution, looking for those responsible for the plot to betray her (Dimitrij Schaad).
The tone of the trailer has a Tarantino-esque quality from the very first second. Possibly not in the quantity of blood, but certainly in the intensity and display of violence. The protagonist/anti-hero Kleo is introduced in a stylised fashion that teases an intriguing and multifaceted personality. The two-minute clip displays some of her less commonplace techniques of homicide, such as manufacturing puffer fish poison.
Michael Souvignier and Till Derenbach of Zeitsprung Pictures are the producers of this “true narrative,” part of which “really occurred.” The cast also includes Thandi Sebe, Yun Huang, Marta Sroka, Julius Feldmeier, Vladimir Burlakov, and Alessija Lause in addition to Haase and Schaad.
On August 19, Kleo will be exclusively available on Netflix.