Documentary series · ZDF
Mesut Özil – Among Friends
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Mesut Özil
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
Mustafa Özil
Self
3 eps
Joachim Löw
Self
3 eps
Oliver Bierhoff
Self
3 eps
Dietrich Schulze Marmeling
Self
3 eps
Reinhard Grindel
Self
3 eps
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
Angela Merkel
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
Per Mertesacker
Self
3 eps
Ilkay Gündogan
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
Jérôme Boateng
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
Lothar Matthäus
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
Ramzan Kadyrov
Self (archive footage)
3 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Mesut Özil – Among Friends actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Mesut Özil – Among Friends reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
Mesut Özil is regarded as an exceptional footballer and a role model for integration. But when he has himself photographed with Turkish President Erdoğan, Germany turns against him – and Özil falls hard.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Florian OpitzWriter
Direction
- Florian OpitzDirector
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