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Exclusive: StudioCanal to handle world sales on Kai Wessel’s wartime drama.
StudioCanal is to handle international sales on Kai Wessel’s Fog In August (Nebel im August), the first feature film to address the Nazis’ euthanasia programme.
Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 eponymous historical novel, Fog In August centres on the authentic life story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa who was committed to a mental hospital in Sargau in 1942 because of his origins in a family of travellers.
However, Ernst soon discovered the truth behind the hospital’s facade and sabotaged its euthanasia programme to help his new-found friends. But his actions did not go unnoticed by the institution’s administration.
The role of Ernst is played by the young Berliner Ivo Pietzcker who played the central character in Edward Berger’s Berlinale 2014 competition film Jack, which won a German Film Award last month.
The hospital’s staunch Nazi chief physician Werner Veithausen is played by Sebastian Koch who came...
StudioCanal is to handle international sales on Kai Wessel’s Fog In August (Nebel im August), the first feature film to address the Nazis’ euthanasia programme.
Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 eponymous historical novel, Fog In August centres on the authentic life story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa who was committed to a mental hospital in Sargau in 1942 because of his origins in a family of travellers.
However, Ernst soon discovered the truth behind the hospital’s facade and sabotaged its euthanasia programme to help his new-found friends. But his actions did not go unnoticed by the institution’s administration.
The role of Ernst is played by the young Berliner Ivo Pietzcker who played the central character in Edward Berger’s Berlinale 2014 competition film Jack, which won a German Film Award last month.
The hospital’s staunch Nazi chief physician Werner Veithausen is played by Sebastian Koch who came...
- 7/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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Hello! So, listen, here’s what happened. There was this TV show called Smash that used to be on NBC. Vulture asked me to recap it, and many things happened. Woodland creatures frolicked, scarves were worn and discarded; prednisone was found to have hallucinogenic properties; salads of Rage and Recrimination were composed and consumed. And I recorded it all, attempting to bear witness, like the Victor Klemperer of the gay piano bar.And people began to pay attention to these attempts. Some of them were famous. Some of them were not. None of them were Katharine McPhee (although I did begin to receive unhinged e-mails from her small band of ardent supporters in the Philippines, whom I believe will be the subject of the next Alex Timbers–David Byrne collaboration). One of these people (in the corporations-are-people sense) was Amazon, who asked me to write a Kindle Single about my experiences.
- 7/11/2013
- by Rachel Shukert
- Vulture
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