Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has closed first sales and released the first-look image from Oscar-nominated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland’s biopic of the Czech novelist Franz Kafka, “Franz.”
The project has sold to September Film in Benelux, Filmin in Spain, Vertigo in Hungary, McF Megacom for the former Yugoslavia and Movies Inspired in Italy.
The film was previously acquired for theatrical distribution by Bac Films Distribution in France, X Verleih in Germany and Austria, Bioscop in Czech Republic and Kino Świat in Poland.
Kafka, a German-speaking Jewish Bohemian famous for surrealist and nightmarish visions, wrote “The Metamorphosis,” “The Trial” and “The Castle,” among others.
The film started shooting in Prague on April 12, including the Old Town near Kafka’s birthplace, and will continue there until the end of May, when the production moves for a week’s shoot in Berlin.
Šárka Cimbalová produces through Czech Republic’s Marlene Film Production,...
The project has sold to September Film in Benelux, Filmin in Spain, Vertigo in Hungary, McF Megacom for the former Yugoslavia and Movies Inspired in Italy.
The film was previously acquired for theatrical distribution by Bac Films Distribution in France, X Verleih in Germany and Austria, Bioscop in Czech Republic and Kino Świat in Poland.
Kafka, a German-speaking Jewish Bohemian famous for surrealist and nightmarish visions, wrote “The Metamorphosis,” “The Trial” and “The Castle,” among others.
The film started shooting in Prague on April 12, including the Old Town near Kafka’s birthplace, and will continue there until the end of May, when the production moves for a week’s shoot in Berlin.
Šárka Cimbalová produces through Czech Republic’s Marlene Film Production,...
- 5/14/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
In Karlovy Vary Film Festival competition entry “We Have Never Been Modern,” Czech director Matej Chlupacek takes on both the dangers of Utopian bubbles and the power of unbending faith in traditional gender concepts.
The story, set in a Slovak company town built by a visionary industrialist, takes place on the eve of World War II, as a murder mystery threatens to upset the idealized community. The factory director’s wife Helena, played by Eliska Krenkova, is an aspiring doctor who is soon to give birth. But her rosy future is suddenly darkened by the discovery of the body of a newborn intersex baby in the factory’s courtyard.
All these elements might seem like a heavy burden for a young indie filmmaker who eschewed film school and whose last effort at making a feature was a decade ago, “Touchless” – made when he was a 17-year-old debut writer-director.
But Chlupacek...
The story, set in a Slovak company town built by a visionary industrialist, takes place on the eve of World War II, as a murder mystery threatens to upset the idealized community. The factory director’s wife Helena, played by Eliska Krenkova, is an aspiring doctor who is soon to give birth. But her rosy future is suddenly darkened by the discovery of the body of a newborn intersex baby in the factory’s courtyard.
All these elements might seem like a heavy burden for a young indie filmmaker who eschewed film school and whose last effort at making a feature was a decade ago, “Touchless” – made when he was a 17-year-old debut writer-director.
But Chlupacek...
- 7/9/2023
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The European Film Academy has unveiled the eight winners of the Excellence Awards spanning the arts and crafts categories. These will receive their prizes during the European Film Awards on Dec. 10 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Best European cinematography went to Kate McCullough for “The Quiet Girl,” an Irish drama directed Colm Bairéad which played at several festivals, including the Berlinale where it won the Generation K-Plus jury grand prize.
European editing was awarded to Özcan Vardar & Eytan İpeker for Emin Alper’s “Burning Days,” a politically minded Turkish movie which world premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
“Belfast,” a coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, garnered two awards for European production design for Jim Clay, and European costume design for Charlotte Walter. The movie previously won an Oscar for best original screenplay, and a BAFTA for outstanding British film of the year.
European make up...
Best European cinematography went to Kate McCullough for “The Quiet Girl,” an Irish drama directed Colm Bairéad which played at several festivals, including the Berlinale where it won the Generation K-Plus jury grand prize.
European editing was awarded to Özcan Vardar & Eytan İpeker for Emin Alper’s “Burning Days,” a politically minded Turkish movie which world premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
“Belfast,” a coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, garnered two awards for European production design for Jim Clay, and European costume design for Charlotte Walter. The movie previously won an Oscar for best original screenplay, and a BAFTA for outstanding British film of the year.
European make up...
- 11/23/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Films win two Excellence Awards each.
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front have both won two craft prizes each at the European Film Awards.
They are among eight winners of the Excellence Awards for arts and craft which will be presented at the European Film Awards on December 10 in Reykjavík.
For Belfast, Jim Clay has won the prize for European Production Design, while Charlotte Walter won the European Costume Design prize.
All Quiet On The Western Front won the European Make-up & Hair prize for Heike Merker and the European Visual Effects prize for Frank Petzold,...
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front have both won two craft prizes each at the European Film Awards.
They are among eight winners of the Excellence Awards for arts and craft which will be presented at the European Film Awards on December 10 in Reykjavík.
For Belfast, Jim Clay has won the prize for European Production Design, while Charlotte Walter won the European Costume Design prize.
All Quiet On The Western Front won the European Make-up & Hair prize for Heike Merker and the European Visual Effects prize for Frank Petzold,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
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