Jonathan Glazer’s Nazi drama “The Zone of Curiosity” has offered into main worldwide territories following its buzzy Cannes world premiere.
The movie facilities on the household of a high-ranking SS official that lives subsequent door to Auschwitz focus camp. The pic has offered into: Austria and Germany (Leonine), Benelux (Cineart), France (BAC), Greece (Spentzos), Italy (I Surprise), Japan (Happinet Phantom Studios), Scandinavia (SF Studios), Spain (Elastica) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi).
In Poland — a major gross sales marketplace for the movie given it’s set there — Gutek has come on board as distributor. (A24 was promoting worldwide rights for the movie, however didn’t deal with the Polish sale.)
The pic was equally financed by A24, which is dealing with U.S. theatrical distribution, with U.Okay.-based studio Film4 and the Len Blavatnik-backed Entry Leisure.
“The Zone of Curiosity” was written and directed by Glazer. The film relies on the 2014 novel by British creator Martin Amis, whose loss of life was introduced only a day after the film’s bow in Cannes.
The pic stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, who give restrained however highly effective performances as a Nazi couple seemingly unfazed by the horrors going down subsequent door.
Producers embrace James Wilson and Ewa Puszcyńska.
In his Selection assessment, critic Owen Gleiberman stated of “The Zone of Curiosity”: “It’s a exceptional movie — chilling and profound, meditative and immersive, a film that holds human darkness as much as the sunshine and examines it as if beneath a microscope. In a way, it’s a film that performs off our voyeurism, our curiosity to see the unseeable. But it does so with a bracing originality.”
