Amrum

Source: Beta Cinema

‘Amrum’

Beta Cinema has sold Fatih Akin’s Amrum to key territories, ahead of its theatrical release in Germany this week.

Amrum has inked new deals for Australia & New Zealand (Palace Films), India (Big Tree Entertainment), Latin America (Synapse Distribution), Portugal (Pris Audiovisuais), Scandinavia (Angel Films), Italy (BIM Distribuzione), Greece (Rosebud.21), Turkey (Filmarti) and Ukraine (Svoekino).

The film previously sold to North America (Kino Lorber), France (Dulac Distribution), Spain (A Contracorriente), Japan (Bitters End) and Benelux (Cherry Pickers), among others.

Amrum debuted in the Cannes Premiere section at Cannes Film Festival in May this year. Based on true events including the childhood memories of German filmmaker Hark Bohm, the film follows 12-year-old Nanning as he unravels his family’s secret in the final weeks of the Second World War on the secluded island of Amrum.

Jasper Billerbeck leads the cast, alongside Laura Tonke, Lisa Hagmeister, Kian Koppke, Matthias Schweighofer and Diane Kruger.

It is produced by Laura Forte for Germany’s Bomber International, and Warner Bros Film Productions Germany, in co-production with Rialto Film.

Backers include German funds FFA, DFFF, Moin Film Forderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, BKM, MBB, MFG and Bayerischer Filmpreis.

Warner Bros Germany will release Amrum throughout German-speaking territories on October 9.

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