Kinology has come on board the extremely anticipated subsequent movie of Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov, “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,” based mostly on Olivier Guez’s bestselling novel. Kinology is at Cannes to current the mission to consumers.
Set to start out capturing in a couple of weeks, the movie is being produced by Charles Gillibert at CG Cinema (“Annette”) and Ilya Stewart at Hype Studios (“Tchaikovsky’s Spouse”). It stars August Diehl as Mengele, the infamous Nazi physician who discovered refuge in South America on the finish of WWII and was by no means captured. Mengele died in Brazil in 1979 with out having been judged for his crimes. The daring film will deal with Mengele’s fugitive years, spanning from Paraguay to the Brazilian jungle, and will likely be informed from the person’s standpoint.
Guez’s novel gained the celebrated Renaudot Prize in 2017 in France and was revealed in additional than 30 nations. The movie will mark Serebrennikov‘s observe as much as his upcoming film “Limonov,” in addition to “Tchaikovsky’s Spouse” and “Leto,” each of which competed on the Cannes Movie Competition in 2022 and 2018.
“The occasions of the Second World Conflict are most frequently represented in artwork within the identify of heroes whose motivations we perceive very clearly. They’re resistance fighters, allied troopers, nameless individuals who fought towards Nazism. With ‘The Disappearance,’ we reverse the standpoint: we attempt to study the darkest aspect of the human soul, from a perspective that has by no means been seen earlier than. It’s a movie thought, written, and made out of the very subjectivity of those that made the entire world tremble with worry,” mentioned Serebrennikov.
“Who precisely have been these males? Is there something that distinguishes them, may we acknowledge them in an nameless crowd, or are they identical to us? Can we even attempt to perceive them? I consider this character examine is especially related to the instances we reside in immediately, continuously getting ready to battle, the place the actions of some can create chaos on a worldwide scale. I additionally see this story of the previous as a strong cautionary story for my contemporaries,” Serebrennikov continued. The important thing solid additionally contains Louis Hofman, Liv Lisa Fries and and Ulrich Noethen.
