Daniel Bruhl

Source: Beta Cinema

Daniel Bruhl

Spanish-German actor Daniel Brühl has joined Bérénice Bejo in the cast of Lone Scherfig’s The Movie Teller, which is set to commence production in Chile’s Atacama Desert on March 21. Embankment Films is handling worldwide sales.

The Spanish-language film is based on Hernán Rivera Letelier’s autobiographical novel about the life of a mining community of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Brühl will play the European administer of the mine on which the community depends. Antonio de la Torre will also star.

The film is produced by Adolfo Blanco of Spain’s A Contracorriente Films, Vincent Juillerat of France’s Selenium Films and Andrés Mardones of Chile’s Al Tiro Films.

Latido Films is co-representng Latin American rights with Embankment. 

Danish director Scherfig’s debut series The Shift will premiere at Berlinale 2022.