in development · 2 films · 2 series

feature film/series — Alexander Ratter

as creator, director & producer

Currently in focus as creator on two international fictional series and as director on two feature films.

THE HEART OF DARKNESS — production still. Feature film in development at Picco-Studio, directed by Alexander Ratter, loosely based on Joseph Conrad.

FEATURE FILM

THE HEART OF DARKNESS

A piece of art as an inspiring tour de force.

Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella — relocated to present-day Europe and spanning multiple continents. Alexander Ratter's adaptation strips the colonial frame from Conrad's original and places its moral core in the present: power, complicity, and the shadow each of us casts when we choose to look away.

The film is written and directed by Alexander Ratter and produced at Picco-Studio Berlin. It is developed as an international co-production. The story follows a European protagonist drawn into a web of compromise — an intimate, visually precise journey through landscapes of human self-deception. Language: English.

  • Director & AuthorAlexander Ratter
  • ProductionPICCO-STUDIO
  • StatusIn development
CALIGULA — production still. Feature film by Alexander Ratter, set in Vienna, in development at Picco-Studio.

FEATURE FILM

CALIGULA

A satirical, slightly futuristic reading set in Vienna.

The point of departure is the biography of Caligula as recorded by Suetonius in De Vita Caesarum. Alexander Ratter transposes this ancient portrait into a slightly futuristic Vienna: a city of marble facades and hollow ceremony, where power performs itself to the point of absurdity.

CALIGULA is a satirical feature film — a meditation on modern society, the mechanics of authority, and the people who hold power without understanding it. Written and directed by Alexander Ratter. Dramaturgy by Jan-Stephan Schmieding. Original music by Wolfgang Schlögl. Any resemblance to real existing personalities is coincidental.

  • International co-production
  • DirectorAlexander Ratter
  • DramaturgeJan-Stephan Schmieding
  • MusicWolfgang Schlögl
  • ProductionPICCO-STUDIO
  • StatusIn development

SERIES

SCAM CITY: LIMASSOL — DAY AND NIGHT

A fictionalised series based on real events.

▸ Unofficial Teaser — not an official release

Limassol — Cyprus’s coastal boom-town: by day a sun-bleached riviera of yachts, glass towers and easy money; by night a clearing-house for the call-centre scams, laundered fortunes and borrowed identities that quietly bankroll it. A fictionalised series based on real events, moving between the two faces of a single city.

Created by Alexander Ratter and produced at Picco-Studio. Conceived as an international co-production for two seasons and beyond — eight episodes of 45 minutes per season.

  • CreatorAlexander Ratter
  • ProductionPICCO-STUDIO
  • Format2 seasons+ · 8 × 45 min
  • StatusIn development