01/09/2003

The world premiere of the British-German co-production Baltic Storm will be held at next year’s Berlin Festival. The blockbuster is the true story of the biggest post-war maritime disaster, when the ferry “Estonia” sank in the Baltic Sea during the night of September 28, 1994, claiming 852 lives.
The film is written and directed by the Hollywood director Reuben Leder, and it is made in the form of a political thriller, and the search to shed light on the true facts surrounding the disaster. The main characters are a television journalist, played by Greta Scacchi and a Swedish lawyer, played by Juergen Prochnow. The cast also stars Donald Sutherland in the role of a collaborator from the American Ministry of Defence. The news about the premiere was announced last Saturday by Toy Story Filmproduktion GmbH at Potsdam-Babelsberg. The film’s producer, Jutta Rabe, is happy about the request to show the film at the Berlin Festival market and she has announced that negotiations are currently underway for sales to the United States.

(Translated from Italian)