Official trailer revealed for award-winning Sky Original drama, Souls

Today Sky reveals the official trailer for brand new Sky Original drama, Souls. Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Music at CannesSeries TV Festival, the mind-bending series is coming to Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW next month.

In Stockholm, pregnant pathologist Allie tries everything to prevent her beloved husband and pilot Leo from flying. In Berlin, 25-year-old Linn joins a cult whose members, for a variety of reasons, desperately want to believe in life after death. Meanwhile in a hospital in the middle of Germany, Hanna wakes up after a serious car accident and wonders how her 14-year-old son Jacob managed to save them both from drowning.

When, a few days after the accident, Jacob suddenly claims to remember a past life as a pilot of a missing passenger plane, he dramatically changes the fate of the three women. Is he telling the truth?

The series is led by rising star Aaron Kissiov ("The Wild Things: The Legend Lives") as Jacob alongside Brigitte Hobmeier ("Part of Us") as Hanna, Julia Koschitz ("Under the Pear Tree") as Allie, Lili Epply ("Ostwind - Ari's Arrival") as Linn, Aleksandar Jovanovic (“The Croatia Crime Fiction”) as Sebastian, Selam Tadese ("Snow Maiden") as Eddie, Godehard Giese ("Babylon Berlin") as Vincent, Abak Safaei-Rad ("Relationships") as Emma, Derya Dilber ("Wet Dog") as Mathilda and Laurence Rupp ("Barbarians") as Leo.

Souls was produced by Geißendörfer Pictures GmbH (GP) in association with Sky Studios with Hana Geißendörfer and Malte Can as executive producer and Alena Jelinek as co-executive producer. The series is created by Alex Eslam, co-directed with Hanna Maria Heidrich and based on an idea by Malte Can. Written by Alex Eslam with Lisa van Brakel, Erol Yesilkaya and Senad Halilbasic. Executive Producers for Sky Studios are Lucia Vogdt, Frank Jastfelder and Marcus Ammon.

The series is funded by the German Motion Picture Fund (GMPF), the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) and the Film and Television Fund Bavaria (FFF).

Souls will be available in all Sky markets including UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

NBCUniversal Global Distribution handle international sales of the series on behalf of Sky Studios.

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About Geißendörfer Pictures:

Geißendörfer Pictures GmbH is Hana Geißendörfer's independent film and television production company based in Munich, Berlin and Cologne. The GP invents, develops and produces fictional formats for cinema, television and streaming providers - small and large stories for a global audience. Unique, compelling and touching stories brought to the screen as complex dramas, post-apocalyptic sci-fi or daring thrillers.

In addition to "Souls" and the German-Austrian co-production "Der Fuchs" in 2022, the TV films "TATORT - Das Opfer" (RBB) and INBESTECHLICH (ZDF) were shot. Further German and international productions, ranging from mainstream to arthouse, are also being planned.