Amazon has celebrated a huge success with the mini-series Die Therapie. Now we know that Sebastian Fitzek’s most successful psychological thriller will be filmed next and have all the information for you
Since October 2023, The Therapy has been available to stream on Amazon Prime – the first series adaptation of a Sebastian Fitzek novel. His thriller was published in 2006 and became a huge success again this year as a mini-series.
Now the next psychological thriller by Sebastian Fitzek is set to be filmed by Amazon: The Way Home. This time a feature film is planned. We’ll tell you what it’s about and when the film will be released
Model, plot and cast of The Way Home: What’s it about? Who is in it?
The book template: The eerie psychological thriller Der Heimweg was published in 2020 and is one of the more recent books by the successful German author Sebastian Fitzek. It was “number one on the bestseller list for eleven weeks and on the order lists for 120 weeks in total”, according to Amazon’s official press release on the film adaptation. It is Fitzek’s most successful thriller to date.
This is what The Way Home is about: Jules (Sabin Tambrea) works for a telephone escort service that women can contact on their way home. He receives a call from the young mother Klara (Luise Heyer). She claims that she will be killed tonight by a notorious murderer of women who has given her an ultimatum: she must kill her husband – or be killed herself that very night. With Jules’ help, she desperately tries to find a way out over the phone
(The book cover of The Way Home)
Cast of Der Heimweg: Sabin Tambrea (Babylon Berlin) and Luise Heyer (Der Junge muss an die frische Luft) can be seen in the leading roles as the murder victim in spe and her telephone companion. Friedrich Mücke (Ballon) plays the threatened husband. The cast also includes Andreas Döhler (Im Westen nichts Neues), Dennenesch Zoudé (Unorthodox) and Isabel Thierauch (Zwischen Sommer und Herbst).
