Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Alba August, Lucas Lynggaard and Lars Simonsen are cast in Netflix’s first Danish original series that started filming on Monday. 

Other cast members include Iben Hjejle (Dicte,), Lukas Løkken (One-Two-Three Now!), Angela Bundalovic (Blood Sisters), Sonny Lindberg (When the Sun Shines), Jessica Dinnage (The Man) and Johannes Kuhnke (Force Majeure). 

The 8x52’ series is co-directed by Kenneth Kainz (Dicte, The Shamer’s Daughter) and Natasha Arthy (Heartless).

Jannik Tai Mosholt (Follow the Money) is head writer and co-creator with Miso Film's in-house producer Christian Potalivo and Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear). Mosholt and Potalivo also act as show-runners. 

Erik Barmack, Vice President of International Original Series at Netflix said: “Scandinavia is known around the world for intriguing storytelling and captivating TV. We are excited to be working with such fine local actors, writers and directors to bring a big, fresh premise to a global audience.”

In the series, the world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two siblings join a group of young survivors set out to find out whether a new world has begun somewhere else. They all hope that the siblings’ father will bring some answers. Set free from the rules of civilized society, each of the youngsters has the freedom to be who they want to be, but they all struggle with their own selves, and the fact that even in a post-apocalyptic world there’s love, jealousy, coming of age, and every problem they thought they’d left behind with the disappearance of the world as they knew it.

Jannik Tai Mosholt said: “Civilization is very fickle. It’s a thin layer spread out over thousands of years of basic survival. And now, after a sudden burst of inspiration, we humans believe that we have it all under control. I want to find out whether this is true. What is left of us when civilization is stripped away in an instant, how do we survive? Do we go back to being animals or do we rise to the occasion, insisting on bringing humanity into an inhumane world?”

The Rain will be available to Netflix’s 100+ million subscribers worldwide from 2018.

Other event drama series on Miso Film’s slate include Christoffer Boe’s TV drama Warrior starring Dar Salim, Danica Ćurčić and Lars Ranthe, season 2 of the crime show Modus starring Greg Wise, Billy Campbell and Kim Cattrall alongside Melinda Kinnaman and Henrik Norlen, as well as Ole Bornedal’s biopic The Way to Mandalay in which Rasmus Bjerg plays Danish legendary musician John Mogensen.