BETA CINEMA ADDS “I IS ANOTHER” ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL SS CHIEF HEINRICH HIMMLER’S THERAPIST TO AFM SLATE, UNVEALS FIRST STILL

Beta Cinema has boarded international sales for I IS ANOTHER, the latest film by Felix Randau (Iceman), and will launch it at the upcoming American Film Market (AFM).
 
The German historical drama stars Claes Bang (The Square, The Great Arch, Bad Sisters) and Valerie Pachner (A Hidden Life, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Four Minus Three).
 
The story is set in Autumn 1952: Committed journalist Hedda and her husband Winfried ambush Felix Kersten, former massage therapist to SS Reich Leader Himmler, on a train to Oslo. Kersten is said to have helped thousands of concentration camp prisoners to freedom during the Nazi era—at least according to his own account. But Hedda has her doubts. She considers Kersten a mythmaker who is using fabricated heroic deeds to put himself in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. What begins as an interview develops into a tense, psychological cat-and-mouse game: Kersten, rhetorically brilliant and armed with alleged evidence, encounters a stubborn opponent who relentlessly confronts him with contradictions. As the conversation comes to a head, the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner draws ever closer...
 
Felix Randau directs from his own script, with cinematography by Sebastian Thaler (Transatlantic, 7500). The cast also includes iconic actress Susanne Wuest (Sound of Falling, Goodnight Mommy), Timocin Ziegler (Learning to Die), and acclaimed stage actor Martin Müller.
 
Beta Cinema comments: “Felix Randau’s new film explores the blurred lines between truth and self-mythologizing. The story of Himmler’s masseur is as controversial as it is compelling, and Claes Bang brings a powerful presence to this morally complex role.”
 
I IS ANOTHER is produced by ostlicht filmproduktion (Marcel Lenz, Claritta Kratochwil) in co-production with WEGA Film (Veit Heiduschka, Christian Bachmann, Julia Heiduschka), in collaboration with Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, BR, and Arte. The production is supported by MDM, ÖFI, DFFF, FFA, Filmfonds Vienna and the Thuringian State Chancellery.
 
Principal photography wrapped on September 3, with filming locations in Leipzig, Weimar, and Vienna. Beta Cinema will present first footage to international buyers at AFM.