"The Swarm" is traded as a series highlight from Germany. The adaptation of the science fiction bestseller of the same name by Frank Schätzing (65) now has a start date: the series will be shown for the first time on Monday, March 6, 2023 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF. Before that, the eight-part major production will open the "Berlinale Series" section of the Berlin International Film Festival. The shooting of "The Swarm" took place in 2021 in Italy and Belgium.

A previously unknown intelligence is attacking humanity from the depths of the sea: whales destroy boats, deep-sea crabs attack beaches, mussels paralyze container ships. A hitherto unknown ice worm destabilizes continental slopes in the oceans, triggering devastating tsunamis. More and more people are in mortal danger. A group of international scientists gather to face the danger. Their life-threatening mission takes them to the perpetual ice on a research ship.

The actress Leonie Benesch (31), known from the series "Babylon Berlin", plays the marine biology student Charlie Wagner, while Oliver Masucci ("Dark", 54) embodies the captain of the aforementioned research ship with the character Alban. Entertainer Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (39) also plays the diving robotics expert Roscovitz.

"The Swarm" is framed in the ZDF program by several documentaries and accompanying offers, which are intended to explain and classify the events of the series in a scientifically sound manner.