2 weeks ago
Lone Scherfig (An Education) is group to return to Scandinavian filmmaking pinch Honeytrap, a caller characteristic movie that TrustNordisk is trading astatine this year’s Cannes Market.
Scherfig will nonstop nan movie from a screenplay she besides wrote. The movie is described successful its logline arsenic a “thrilling espionage play group successful Sweden astir seduction, deception, and innocently optimistic emotion successful nan protector of nan Cold War.”
The charismatic synopsis reads: “1968. Stockholm is buzzing pinch vitality and optimism for nan future. Max is everything Inger has ever dreamed of – travelled and irresistibly charming. She falls intensely successful love. But beneath nan passion lures deception: Max is simply a Stasi “Romeo” agent, deployed to seduce Inger to extract delicate accusation astir nan Swedish institution she useful for. What originates arsenic an cognition spirals retired of power erstwhile Max genuinely falls successful emotion pinch Inger, leaving nan full ngo – and their lives – astatine stake.”
Lizette Jonjic is producing nan movie for Zentropa Sweden AB, successful collaboration pinch shaper Rebecka Hamberger. The co-producers are Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Charlotte Hjordt, and Solmaz Azizi successful co-production pinch Film one Väst, Zentropa Entertainments5 ApS, and Zentropa Berlin GmbH, pinch support from Swedish Film Institute and DR/Danish Broadcasting Corporation. TrustNordisk is handling world sales.
Honeytrap will beryllium Scherfig’s first characteristic movie since 2023’s The Movie Teller and her first Scandinavian changeable and produced movie since Just Like Home (2007). Scherfig’s different credits see Italian for Beginners, An Education, which was nominated for 3 Oscars, One Day, and The Riot Club.
