You Are Wanted is a German drama series directed and produced by and starring Matthias Schweighöfer, first released on 17 March 2017 by Amazon Video, the first foreign-language Amazon Original Series to be released globally.
The series was written and created by Hanno Hackfort, Bob Konrad and Richard Kropf.
A second season was commissioned by Amazon in March 2017 and was released on 18 May 2018. The second season features Jessica Schwarz, Hannah Hoekstra and Michael Landes as new characters.
Plot
Lukas Franke (Matthias Schweighöfer), a hotel manager in Berlin, is the victim of a cyber attack and has his online data altered to implicate him as a member of a terrorist-activist group. He searches for the people responsible to prove his innocence, but his friends, family and colleagues begin to doubt him. He discovers another hacking victim, Lena Arandt (Karoline Herfurth), whom he tries to work with to find out the truth.
Meanwhile, police investigator Sandra Jansen (Catrin Striebeck) is leading the investigation into Franke alongside her partner Thorsten Siebert (Edin Hasanovic), whilst the German Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, also begin to get involved.
Cast
Matthias Schweighöfer as Lukas Franke
Alexandra Maria Lara as Hanna Franke
Catrin Striebeck as Sandra Jensen
Franz Hagn as Leon Franke
Karoline Herfurth as Lena Aradnt
Tom Beck as Marc Wessling
Thomas Schmauser as Frank Jeryczek/Jens Kaufmann
Jörg Pintsch as Thomas Franke
Alexander Khuon as Johnny
Louis Hofmann as Dalton
Lucie Aron as Vero
Markus Gertken as Lorenz
Edin Hasanovic as Thorsten Siebert
Katrin Bauerfeind as Julia Gracht
Lorna Ishema as Dilara Dogan
Aleksandar Jovanovic as Case
Dejan Bucin as Blaschko
Ulrich Drewes as Lippel
Episodes
Reception
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards - Best Foreign (TV Spot/Trailer/Teaser for a Series) (GTA18/2017) - Nominee Romy Award 2018 Ceremony - Preis der Jury [Prize of the Jury] - Winner
Soundtrack
A soundtrack album featuring original music composed by Josef Bach and Arne Schumann, as well as songs by Simon Hughes, Tina Pepper, Chester Travis and Walking on Cars, was released alongside the series on 17 March 2017.