Frank & Louis, the upcoming drama from director Petra Volpe, secured a number of key European pre-sales as manufacturing kicks off.
Constantin Movie picked up the movie for Germany and Austria, Filmcoopi has acquired rights for Switzerland, and September Movie will deal with launch within the Benelux area.
Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love, Barbie) and Rob Morgan (Mudbound, Don’t Look Up) star within the English-language debut from Swiss-Italian director Petra Volpe, whose latest function Late Shift drew acclaim at this yr’s Berlinale and have become an area field workplace success in German-speaking Europe. TrustNordisk is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
Set throughout the partitions of a U.S. jail, Frank & Louis follows Frank (Ben-Adir), a person serving a life sentence who takes on a caretaking position for ageing inmates affected by reminiscence loss. The BAFTA-nominated British actor has drawn consideration from latest turns as Bob Marley in Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced’s Bob Marley: One Love and Malcolm X in Regina King’s One Night time in Miami. Morgan, recognized for The Final Black Man in San Francisco and Bull, stars as Louis, a fellow inmate residing with reminiscence decline.
What begins as a calculated try to enhance his parole prospects evolves right into a deeply private reference to one other prisoner, reframing the protagonist’s understanding of dignity, accountability, and redemption.
The ensemble additionally consists of Indira Varma (Recreation of Thrones), Rosalind Eleazar (Sluggish Horses), and Grammy-winning artist René Pérez Joglar, a.ok.a. Residente, who not too long ago earned an Unbiased Spirit Award nomination for his efficiency in Within the Summers.
Frank & Louis was co-written by Volpe and Esther Bernstorff (4 Kings), and produced by Reto Schaerli and Lukas Hobi for Zodiac Footage, with Georgie Paget and Thembisa Cochrane of Caspian Movies serving as co-producers. It’s supported by Swiss public broadcaster SRF and SRG SSR, together with backing from nationwide and regional movie funds.