BBC Buys HBO Max Thriller ‘Spy/Master‘
BBC Buys HBO Max Thriller ‘Spy/Master‘
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor In “Familiar,” Berlinale Golden Bear-winning director Călin Peter Netzer follows Dragoş Binder, a film director, as he delves into the murky secrets of his family, and tries to exorcise the trauma of his childhood by making a film about it. Beta Cinema is handling world sales for the film, which has its world premiere this month at Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. In the film, Dragoş is trying to understand how his family were able to leave Romania in the early 80s, during the most oppressive period of Nicolae Ceausescu’s rule.
Marta Balaga HBO Max’s period drama “Spy/Master” is more John le Carré than Ian Fleming, state its creators. Following Victor Godeanu, a high-ranking officer in Romania’s secret service, advisor to president Nicolae Ceaușescu – and a spy – who decides to defect in 1978. “As a child, I used to watch James Bond, which is a very cartoony version of espionage. It was something we really wanted to avoid. We wanted it to feel real,” says Kirsten Peters. Adina Sădeanu adds: “John le Carré’s novels, for example ‘A Perfect Spy,’ are so complex. These characters run away from their own humanity. I have always wondered: How do they live? How do they wake up in the morning, after saying so many lies?”
Christopher Vourlias Production is underway in Romania and Hungary on the new HBO Max Original “Spy/Master,” a spy drama series set during the height of the Cold War that will star British Independent Film Award-nominated actor Alec Secăreanu (“God’s Own Country,” “RUXX”). The 6 x 50’ series, which was the winner of HBO’s national screenwriting competition in Romania, marks one of the streaming service’s final productions from Central and Eastern Europe. As Variety first reported in July, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery will no longer produce originals for HBO Max in the Nordics (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland), Central Europe, the Netherlands and Turkey, and will also remove some content from its platform in order to free up licensing deals elsewhere.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has acquired North American rights to “R.M.N.,” the new film from acclaimed writer, director and producer Cristian Mungiu, ahead of its world premiere in Cannes this week.It’s a grand reunion for the indie studio and the director, marking their fifth distribution collaboration. IFC Films will release “R.M.N.” theatrically in 2022.
We’re finding it hard not to laugh whilst picturing the Queen leaping into a bush to avoid a controversial guest, after a television documentary said that the Monarch once did just that.The royal documentary shows that the Queen is, sometimes, all of us, as it explained that she hid in a bush on the grounds of Buckingham Palace in a bid to avoid Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Even Queen Elizabeth II wants to dodge house guests on occasion. In a recent ITV documentary titled "Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals," it was revealed that the monarch once ducked into a bush to avoid speaking with a particularly controversial palace guest -- Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Royals, they're just like us! We've all been in a situation where we wanted to duck down and avoid seeing someone. Well, it looks like that's something that also happened to Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II once reached her breaking point while hosting one particular guest in the past.
Forever the diplomat Queen Elizabeth has had to entertain some of the world’s most hated world leaders on behalf of the British Government.
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