First look for Tom Tykwer’s film ‘The Light’ revealed – The Hollywood Reporter
Talal Al-Din in “Al-Nour”
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Tom Tykwer’s return to the big screen is getting closer. After a seven-year career in television, he co-created and directed, with Henk Handlugten and Achim von Borris, four seasons of the acclaimed drama Babylon BerlinGerman director Run Lola Run, International And Atlantic clouds It will mark his cinematic comeback with a German-language contemporary drama the light (Das Licht).
Tykwer’s production company X Filme Creative Pool, German distributor X Verleih and Beta Cinema, which acquired international sales rights to the film, on Thursday revealed a first look at the film. the light. The still life, which looks almost like a Renaissance painting, shows star Tala Al-Din bathed in the radiant glow of a device placed on the table in front of her.
Al-Din plays Farah, a mysterious Syrian woman who enters the life of the Engels, a middle-class German family whose world is slowly disintegrating. Nothing seems to connect the Ingels family, but Farrah will put the family’s emotional world to an unexpectedly wild test.
Lars Edinger, Nicolette Krebitz, Elke Piesendorfer, Julius Goes, and Elias Eldridge play Engels.
Beta handles sales on the light For all territories except German-speaking Europe, France and North America, pre-sale of the film will begin at the European Film Market in Berlin later this month.
“After a long time spent with him Babylon Berlin “In the Roaring Twenties, I can finally turn my attention back to our present,” Tykwer says of his new film. “in the lightThere is argument, struggle and fighting, but there is also laughter, singing and dancing. The film aims to challenge the spectrum of emotions and corresponding narrative possibilities. And the characters are very familiar to me. I want to try to reflect their inner turmoil and make their deep connection palpable to the audience.
the light It is Tykwer’s first feature film since 2016 3D image of the king Starring Tom Hanks and his first German feature film since the 2010 drama Ménage à trois. 3. A figure on the international cinema scene since his success Run Lola Run In 1998, his filmography includes The princess and the warrior (2000), sky (2002) and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). He co-directed the 2012 sci-fi epic Atlantic clouds With the Wachowski Brothers, with whom he also collaborated on the Netflix series Feeling 8; He also composed the music for Lana Wachowski’s song Resurrection of the Matrix (2021). Babylon Berlinwhich he co-created, is the most expensive German television series ever.
the lightFilmed in Germany and Kenya, it will be released theatrically in Germany via X Verleih in association with Warner Bros. Germany on October 17. Uwe Schott produced the film through X Filme Creative Pool in a co-production with ZDF, ARP Séléction and Gold Rush Pictures. Gretchenfilm and BA Filmproduktion with financial support from the German Film Fund DFFF, the Federal Film Board FFA and regional subsidies from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Film and Medienstiftung NRW.
