29/11/2005

Going back to home-turf after several international co-productions, Lars von Trier has put on hold the third part of his US trilogy Washington to direct the Danish comedy My Man The President which Trust Film Sales already pre-sold to 13 territories at the last AFM, based on Trier’s household name and a long treatment of his script.

His new project with the working titleMy Man The President is the story of an owner of an IT firm who wants to sell up. The trouble is that when he started his firm, he invented a non-existent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed taking. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the ‘president’ face to face, the owner has to take on a failed actor to play the part. The actor suddenly discovers he is a pawn in a game that goes on to sorely test his (lack of) moral fibre.

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The top Danish actors Jens Albinus (Dogville [+see also:
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The €2,7m project produced as usual by Zentropa Entertainments’s Vibeke Vindelow should be ready in the spring 2007. Zentropa’s sales arm Trust Film Sales pre-sold the project to a dozen territories at the last AFM including A Film Distribution for the Benelux, LNK for Portugal, Central Partnership for Russia/CIS, Artcam for the Czech and Slovak Republics, Gutek for Poland, Independenta for Romania, Artdo for the Baltic countries, California Films for Brazil and Bir Films for Turkey.