EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based production company Flimmer has secured the screen rights to German writer Takis Würger’s bestseller The Club , delving into the secretive and sometimes toxic world of members clubs at Cambridge University.

The company is currently in the throws of developing an English-language feature film adaptation of the work first published in German in 2017, with rising filmmaker Mischa Gurevich attached as writer and director.

Set largely in Cambridge, The Club follows a young outsider who becomes entangled in the secretive and elite world of a prestigious university society. As he is drawn deeper into its rituals and power structures, the story becomes an exploration of privilege, loyalty, and moral descent.

German-London-based filmmaker Gurevich recently completed his short film Below the Open , starring Sebastian Koch, Maja Bons, Taddeo Kufus, and Jonathan Berlin.…