"Verschollen"- cinema premiere with leading actors and director

A gripping film, big names and a highly topical, explosive subject: Marketing Osnabrück GmbH is bringing a unique cinema event to the city on Thursday, November 27, 2025 with the ARD feature film "Lost". The film will be shown in the Hall of Fame - Kino de Luxe, just a few days after its presentation at the COP30 World Climate Conference in Brazil. The guests in conversation will be director Daniel Harrich, actors Benjamin Sadler and Luka Omoto as well as participating scientists. It is the first and so far only public evening on the film in Germany.

The trill
Klemens Stadler (Axel Milberg) is alarmed by a call for help from Brazil. It comes from his son Jan, an environmental scientist working on a climate protection project in the Brazilian forests. Because he can't get anywhere from Germany, Klemens travels to Brazil himself to look for his son. In Brazil itself, Jan's colleagues at TreePlanet seem surprisingly unconcerned. The company, which certifies reforestation projects, is in the middle of an ambitious project that is not without its opponents. The new forests require a huge amount of land: entire villages are being forcibly expropriated and indigenous people driven from their homes. During his research, Klemens also gets to know the victims of the project. The former engineer is confronted with more and more inconsistencies in the supposedly exemplary sustainability projects. As he encounters corruption and violence, he has to ask himself what role his son plays in this opaque web - and whether he will be able to find him alive. Klemens Stadler encounters a web of power, lies and greed - and the question of what credibility means in the age of climate change.

The feature film, which can also be found in the ARD media library, is based on Daniel Harrich's investigative research. It also led to the documentary "Verschollen - Die Doku", which shows the real background to the film: the global trade in CO₂ certificates, the effects of international reforestation projects and the consequences for people, nature and the climate. "Lost" was produced as part of the ARD focus on "Forests" for the COP30 World Climate Conference. The production team was invited by the Federal Ministry for the Environment to Belém (Brazil) to present the film and documentary to an international audience of experts.

Cast
The cast includes Axel Milberg, Benjamin Sadler, Max Hubacher, Luka Omoto, Elisa Schlott, Julia Koschitz, Jürgen Hartmann and many others. The author and director of "Verschollen" is Daniel Harrich. He received the Federal Cross of Merit and almost 20 other awards for the investigative feature film genre he developed. Several of his films have led to legal investigations and political consequences.

Lost" was produced as part of ARD's "Forest" focus on the COP30 World Climate Conference. The production team was on location in Belém (Brazil) at the invitation of the Federal Ministry for the Environment to present the film and documentary to an international audience of experts. "Verschollen" is a diwafilm production commissioned by SWR, WDR, BR and SR for ARD.

Tickets
Tickets are now available at the Hall of Fame Osnabrück and online at www.osnabrueck.hall-of-fame.online. Admission is 5 euros. The proceeds will be donated to an environmental education project. Age rating FSK 12.