Laszlo Nemes Feature ‘Orphan’ Sets June Start For Budapest Shoot As Charades & New Europe Team To Co-Sell – Cannes Market
24.04.2024 - 13:25
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EXCLUSIVE: Charades and New Europe Films are joining forces to co-sell Oscar-winning Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes’ long-awaited new feature Orphan, as the production gears up to commence shooting in and around Budapest this June.
Orphan will be Nemes’ third film after Sunset, which world premiered in Venice in 2018, and his Oscar-winning breakthrough Son of Saul, which debuted in Cannes in 2015, winning the Grand Prize of the Jury before clinching Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards the following year.
The new film is set in Budapest in 1957, twelve years after the end of WWII and one year after the uprising against the Communist regime.
The story follows a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him in the hope that his father will return from the camps. These hopes are shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.
Nemes co-wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer, who was his writing partner on Son of Saul and Sunset.
The production also reunites Nemes with Son Of Saul and Sunset cinematographer Mátyás Erdély, who was feted by the Society of American Cinematographers and Camerimage for his work on the former picture.
The Hungarian-language film is being produced by Ildiko Kemeny and Ferenc Szale of Pioneer Pictures and Mike Goodridge of Good Chaos alongside Nemes.
Gregory Jankilevitsch and Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska of Mid March Media (MMM) and two time Academy Award nominated Alexander Rodnyansky of AR Content are also producers.
Juliette Schrameck of Lumen (France) and Thanassis Karathanos and Martin Hampel of Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion (Germany) are co-producing.
The film is being financed by Hungary’s National Film Institute (NFI), Mid March Media and