Daniel Bruhl will direct All Quiet On The Western Front star Felix Kammerer in tennis film Break, for The Ink Factory, Marc Platt Productions and All Quiet… producers Amusement Park and Edward Berger.
Kammerer will play Gottfried von Cramm, a German tennis champion whose career was set against the rise of the Third Reich in 1930s Germany. The film is adapted by Hossein Amini from Marshall Jon Fisher’s A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played.
The film will be in both German and English language. Fifth Season will handle US Sales for the title.
Edward Berger and Malte Grunert will produce Nine Hours for Amusement Park. They will reunite after their collaboration in Berger’s All Silence… that won four Oscars, including best international feature. Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are also producing for La La Land producers Marc Platt Productions, with London- and LA-based independent studio The Ink Factory.
Executive producers are Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang for 127 Wall Productions. Production dates are unconfirmed at the time of writing.
“Gottfried’s life offers a thrilling prism to look at the history of Europe on the cusp of war – but more than that, it is the story of a deeply personal moral conflict and a dangerous romance – and the life-and-death stakes of greatest tennis match ever played,” said a statement from The Ink Factory’s Simon Cornwell and Stephen Cornwell.
Grunert described the story of von Cramm as “one of personal heroism displayed with unassuming elegance. It feels timely at a time when freedom and liberty are under threat by rising nationalism and extreme right politics. “Gottfried’s a hero of our time.”
Amini won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 1998 for
The Wings of the Dove. His other film credits include Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, and The Two Faces of January, which he also directed.A Quiet Place: Day One
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