Gentlemen and Gangsters start Swedish shoot for Call Girl's Mikael Marcimain
- The Swedish director adapts Klas Östergren’s novels Gentlemen (1980) and Gangsters (2005) for €11 million feature and 4x90 mins television series
After the controversial Call Girl [+see also:
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“So far one of our largest drama ventures,” said Christian Wikander, head of drama at Swedish pubcaster SVT, which stages the project with B-Reel Feature Films (Fredrik Heinig, Johannes Åhlund, Mattias Nohrborg). Titled Gentlemen, the feature will be released by Svensk Filmindustri in September 2014, while SVT will air the serial – adding Gangsters – during the autumn 2015.
Scripted by Östergren, described as part love story, part international thriller, the film and the 4x90mins television series are set in the post-WW2 era with jazz music, poetry, hidden treasures and espionage, starring David Dencik, Ruth Vega, Sverrir Gudnason and David Fukamachi Rengfors.
“The story, the locations and the motley gallery of characters are a great inspiration for a classic and epic film. Exciting, romantic, hilarious, intimately playful, sometimes really nasty and tragic. It has everything you need for good drama,” said Marcimain, whose film and TV series will be internationally sold by Paris-based Wild Bunch.
After Gentlemen and Gangsters, he will adapt Swedish author Stefan Spjut’s debut novel, Stallo, for Anna Croneman’s Bob Film. Spjut’s thriller about stallos (human-like creatures who like to ear human flesh), which was sold to 15 countries before published in Sweden, will shoot 2014-2015.
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