EXCLUSIVE: TrustNordisk has unveiled contemporary offers and a teaser-trailer for Might el-Toukhy‘s post-World Warfare Two Denmark-set psychological drama Girl Unknown forward of its world premiere in competitors on the Venice Movie Pageant.
Including to a beforehand introduced sale to Italy (Fortunate Purple), TrustNordisk has additionally sealed offers to Benelux (September Movies), Latin America (California Filmes), Greece (Neo Movies) and the Baltics (Estin Movie) with extra territories on the verge of being signed.
Rising Danish actress Mathilde Arcel (Second Victims), stars as Marie, a younger nanny and housemaid who’s on the cusp of marrying her rich, older, widowed employer Christian within the quick aftermath of the top of World Warfare Two.
Amid the jubilation, there’s a darker aspect to the liberation as girl who fraternized with German troopers are tracked down and publicly shamed. Marie’s secret previous threatens to meet up with her, and he or she is compelled to do every little thing in her energy to protect her new standing as woman of the home in post-war anarchy.
Arcel is joined within the forged by Carsten Bjørnlund (The Legacy) because the austere determine of Christian; Thorbjørn Hedegaard (Generations) as a harmful, obsessive admirer from Marie’s previous and Marina Bouras (The Idiots), because the family’s all-seeing housekeeper.
Danish Egyptian director el-Toukhy is one in every of simply two feminine administrators within the working for the Golden Lion at Venice this 12 months.
Girl Unknown is her third function movie after Lengthy Story Brief and Queen of Hearts and continues her co-writing collaboration with screenwriter Maren Louise Käehne.
“Even earlier than the movie has had its worldwide premiere, it has been an incredible journey – this goes each by way of festivals, but additionally by way of having such a powerful group of distributors on board at this early stage and a number of other others at the moment in talks. We are able to’t look ahead to the premiere in Venice on Sunday, the place we are going to for positive be much more busy,” stated Susan Wendt, Managing Director at TrustNordisk.
Following its Venice premiere, Girl Unknown heads to Toronto, the place it should make its North American premiere within the Centrepiece sidebar, earlier than enjoying in competitors on the BFI London Movie Pageant adopted by Riga Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Girl Unknown is produced Mikael Rieks (Land of Mine) for Nordisk Movie Manufacturing A/S in co-production with Nafta Movies, Nordisk Movie Manufacturing Sweden and Movie i Väst.
The movie acquired the assist of the Danish Movie Institute, Eurimages – Council of Europe, Funding and Growth Company of Latvia, Riga Metropolis Council, Nordisk Movie & TV Fund, DR, The Swedish Movie Institute, SVT, LIAA, Riga Movie Fund, TrustNordisk and Zentropa.
Native distribution is by Nordisk Movie Distribution which has set a February 4, 2027 launch date in Denmark.
