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EXCLUSIVE: Production was conscionable completed successful Bucharest, Romania this week connected director/writer Edoardo Ponti‘s WWII Romance, The Wedding Dress starring Ukranian character Ivanna Sakhno (Ahsoka), Lucas Englander (Transatlantic), Billie Boullet (A Small Light, Man On Fire) , Anika Boyle (Stranger Things: The First Shadow), Veronica Ferres (The Unholy Trinity), and Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles) .
Deadline has an exclusive first look astatine nan film, co-written by Ponti and Victoria Rose, group successful a exile campy and based connected a singular existent communicative of 2 young survivors who autumn successful emotion and resoluteness to do nan unthinkable — get married. But arsenic their wedding time approaches, nan bride finds herself torn betwixt reuniting pinch her family successful America and staying down pinch nan man she loves. The movie is simply a sweeping romance group against 1 of history’s astir improbable backdrops — Germany successful nan contiguous aftermath of WWII.
Says Ponti: “When I first encountered this bonzer existent emotion story, I was struck not only by its affectional force, but by nan courage, empathy, and difficult choices Lilly and Ludwig faced successful uncovering their measurement into each other’s arms. The movie unfolds successful a clip erstwhile acheronian had settled complete nan world. Today, nan skies look to beryllium darkening erstwhile again. Yet erstwhile I bespeak connected this story—on its enduring and timeless connection of love—I americium filled pinch optimism. Like nan mini glow of a distant lighthouse cutting done a deepening storm, nan communicative of Lilly and Ludwig has fixed maine hope, conscionable arsenic it has for nan hundreds of group who are descended from it.”
The Wedding Dress marks Golden Globe nominated filmmaker Ponti’s first characteristic since Netflix’s 2020 The Life Ahead which represented a return to nan surface for Ponti’s legendary mother, Sophia Loren who received Italy’s prestigious David di Donatello Award for Best Actress. The movie was besides nominated for a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for Best International Film, arsenic good arsenic an Academy Award for Diane Warren’s original song, “Seen”.
The Wedding Dress is an Envision Media Arts Production, much than 12 years successful nan making. The Hollywood-based institution was founded by shaper Lee Nelson successful 2002, and its credits see nan Sundance Film Festival debut Celeste & Jesse Forever (Sony Pictures Classics), starring Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg; Mr. Church, directed by Bruce Bersiford and starring Edie Murphy, and The Ice Road franchise starring Liam Neeson. Producers are Nelson, Ponti, David Buelow, and David Tish.
Below is simply a first look astatine nan movie.
