Cannes: Studiocanal Boards Sales On Volker Schlöndorff’s ‘Visitation’ & Unveils First Image

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has boarded income and unveiled a first image for Volker Schlöndorff’s Visitation, which was announced arsenic having been selected for nan Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection connected Thursday.

The film, which is Schlöndorff’s first fabrication characteristic successful adjacent to a decade, will debut successful nan Cannes Premiere section.

The humanities play revolves astir a location connected a lakeshore adjacent Berlin which has borne witnesser to a period of events that reshaped nan world astir it: nan emergence of Nazism and nan devastation of war, Soviet occupation, nan reunification of Germany, and nan dawn of a caller era.

Carrying nan marks of each caller regime, generations travel and spell — a Jewish family, an opportunistic designer and his wife, an idealistic writer, and her granddaughter. Twelve destinies searching for bid and belonging, while nan location remains a haven done decades of turmoil.

Lars Eidinger, Martina Gedeck, Susanne Wolff, Michael Maertens, Ulrich Matthes, Detlev Buck, Angela Winkler and Wigand Witting characteristic successful nan ensemble cast.

Schlöndorff – who won Cannes’ Palme d’Or successful 1979 for The Tin Drum, ex aequo pinch Apocalypse Now – and has been a regular impermanent of nan show passim his career. He was past astatine nan show for its 70th day celebrations successful 2017, while his past caller activity successful action was nan Central Asia Steppes group play Ulzhan, which debuted arsenic a Special Screening successful 2007.