EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Berlin Star Lars Eidinger is the protagonist of a futuristic romantic film Behind the knothole, with producers seeking financing in Cannes.
Eidinger, who has appeared in festival favorites such as the films nominated for the Palme d’Or Clouds from Sils Maria And personal shopper, and this year’s winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Die, will play Fin in David Schalko’s project.
The protagonist is a troubled and unpublished author who begins a complicated love affair with his new neighbor’s wife, Mia. They spend their days in romantic and poetic bliss, while Fin spends his nights tormented by everything he can hear and say in Mia’s apartment through a strange part of the shared wall. Mia moves and ends the affair, but sends one Copy of herself to continue the relationship with Fin, who can’t help but want the original Mia back.
Superfilm and Fun Republic Pictures will represent the film in Cannes and are looking for international sales agents to fill the remaining roles. Pre-production will begin in Canada later this year and filming is expected in 2025.
Eidinger played Alfred Nyssen in 40 episodes of Sky Babylon Berlin. Other prominent roles are in television series Irma Vep And All the light we can’t see, while starring in a number of indie films that did well at festivals, such as Olivier Assaya’s Duo Clouds from Sils Maria And Personal shopper, both with Kristen Stewart. He recently collaborated with Behind the knothole Director Schalko on German-Austrian miniseries Kafka.
“Lars carries every role there is to play,” said Schalko. “For the role of Fin it’s the other way around. Nobody but Lars could play him. He’s a kind of Don Quixote; However, its giants are the many faces of Mia.”
Behind the knothole was developed with financial support from the Austrian Film Institute. The film is financed in partnership with Volume Global and is conceived as an Austrian-Canadian co-production between Superfilm and Fun Republic Pictures. John Lueftner and David Cormican will produce the film, written and directed by Schalko. Schalko will also act as an EP alongside Superfilm’s Katharina Theissen (School of Champions, MA – A town hunts a murderer), Anand Ramayya from Karma Film (brotherhood, funny boy)Michael Hamilton-Wright of Volume Global (Dylan and Zoey, King of Killers) and Christopher Rush Harrington (King of Killers, Hustle Down).