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EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Spacey has signed connected to lead a World War 2 play titled Melodies successful nan Forest.
The task is produced by Ventitre SRL successful co-production pinch Pink Flamingo Media Group. Principal photography connected nan task is group to statesman successful October crossed Italy and nan Czech Republic.
Kevin Spacey will prima arsenic Petr Novotni, an 85-year-old world-renowned conductor whose buried wartime past violently resurfaces. The formed besides includes John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Vincent Spano (Rumble Fish), Antonella Salvucci, Andrea Bruschi, Danny Kamensky, Riccardo Campione, Casper Kellndorfer, and Enzo Storico.
Blue Eyes Film and Distribution has acquired worldwide income authorities and will present nan task to world buyers astatine nan Cannes Market.
The movie is written and directed by Roberto Lippolis, whose erstwhile activity includes The Cat & nan Moon. The charismatic synopsis reads: When celebrated conductor Petr Novotni is abducted during a regular walk, he recognises his captor arsenic Yosef — a Jewish composer he encountered successful Terezín successful 1942. As investigators adjacent in, Novotni’s children observe a hidden memoir that rewrites everything they believed astir their father, forcing a reckoning pinch guilt, complicity, and nan costs of survival.
Worldwide income were negotiated by Michael Cowan of Blue Eyes Film and Ivan Perciballi of Xlegion, who besides serves arsenic executive producer. Additional executive producers see Roberto Lippolis and Enzo Storico for Ventitre SRL, and Jayney Mackie for Pink Flamingo Media Group.
Michael Cowan of Blue Eyes Film and Distribution described nan movie arsenic an “extraordinary communicative grounded successful documented history,” pinch a “cast and imaginative squad that tin transportation it to nan widest imaginable audience.”
“We’re bringing Melodies successful nan Forest to Cannes arsenic 1 of our astir important acquisitions to date”, Cowan said.
