EXCLUSIVE: Bankside has inked a slew of gross sales on Ido Fluk’s Köln 75 following its Particular Gala premiere on the Berlinale this month.
The largely well-received movie has offered to Bulgaria (Beta), Canada (Stage Movie), Czech/Slovak (AQS), Jap Europe excluding Poland (HBO), Former Yugoslavia (Discovery), France (Metopolitan), Hungary (Budapest Movie), Israel (Naschon/Purple Cape), Italy (Fortunate Purple), Center East (Entrance Row), Scandinavia (SF Studios), South Korea (The Coup) and Spain (Selecta Imaginative and prescient).
Alamode Movie holds distribution rights for German-speaking Europe and can be releasing the movie in March on greater than 200 screens, September Movie for Benelux and Insanity for Poland. Discussions are ongoing for distribution in each UK and U.S.
The English and German-language pic tells the story behind one of many best-selling jazz data of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Live performance, the way it nearly didn’t occur, and the way one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, breaks boundaries to set the situations for the creation of a masterpiece. Vera, nonetheless in highschool when she began producing and selling music concert events in Cologne, places all the things on the road to placed on the present.
Mala Emde (And Tomorrow The Whole World) performs Vera Brandes and John Magaro (September 5) is within the function of Keith Jarrett and Michael Chernus (Severance) performs fictional music journalist Michael Watts.
Supporting solid consists of Alexander Scheer, Ulrich Tukur, Jördis Triebel, Susanne Wolff, Leo Meier, Shirin Eissa and Enno Trebs.
The movie is produced by Sol Bondy and Fred Burle of One Two Movies, who most lately produced Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, which premiered in Cannes competitors in 2022 and acquired a Greatest Actress prize on the competition. Bankside Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
New York based mostly writer-director, Ido Fluk is at present in improvement on his HBO sequence, Empty Mansions, with Joe Wright and Fremantle. He beforehand co-wrote and directed Tribeca competitors title, The Ticket, starring Dan Stevens and Malin Akerman.
Oren Moverman and Lillian LaSalle function government producers, in addition to Annegret-Weitkämper Krug, Paul Hudson, Rain Rannu and affiliate producer Eiko Mizuno-Grey, amongst others.
Backing comes from Polish and Belgium funds (Polish Movie Institute, Lodz Movie Fund, Display screen Flanders and The Belgium Tax Shelter), whereas Ewa Puszczyńska of Excessive Feelings and Dries Phlypo, Erik Glijnis and Leontine Petit of Lemming Movie Belgium co-produce. German distributor Alamode additionally serves as co-producer. Additional backing comes from Euro pubcasters WDR, SR and ARTE, Movie-und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FFF Bayern, DFFF and Eurimages.
