Peacock to Stream Sky's 'The Tattoooist of Auschwitz' Adaptation
It's been nearly six years since Synchronicity Films originally announced it was optioning the rights to Heather Morris' best-selling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz, published only a year earlier. Inspired by the real-life story of Lali and Gita Sokolov, who met while prisoners in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust, Morris' tale of the true-life romance that blossomed in one of the most famous sites of the Holocaust and survived the war was the perfect prestige TV fare. However, it wasn't until 2023 that casting was announced, and in January 2024, the first images arrived.
The series, which became a joint Sky and Peacock project, took that long partially out of a desire to make the adaptation's release a global event. All3Media, which handled sales, has managed to land distributors in Morris' native New Zealand, neighboring Australia, and across most of the European continent, including Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden.
With so many participating countries, the plan now is to drop all six episodes of the series at once, in all countries, to commemorate the day Berlin fell, May 2, 1945. While V-E Day is technically a week later (May 8, 1945), May 2 was the day Berlin fell, Italy surrendered, the famous liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp, and the halting of the death march from Dachau to the Austrian border, basically the beginning of the end of the war.
