Tom Tykwer is returning to the flicks.
The German director of Run Lola Run and Cloud Atlas has actually revealed his return to filmmaking with the German dramatization Das Licht (The Light).
The attribute, which has actually simply covered concept digital photography, is referred to as a picture of a household “between collapse and new beginnings” and handle the significant problems of our time “in a world that is reeling.”
Das Licht is Tykwer’s very first attribute film considering that 2016’s A Hologram for the King starring Tom Hanks. He has actually invested the previous 7 years making television, co-creating and co-directing, with Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries, 4 periods of the well-known and prize-winning German historical collectionBabylon Berlin
Das Licht celebrities Babylon Berlin alum Lars Eidinger and actor/director Nicolette Krebitz (Wild, My Zoe) as Tim and Milena Engels, a pair whose household, consisting of nearly-grown doubles Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) and Jon (Julius Gause) and their bogus boy Dio (Elyas Eldridge), is breaking down. The globe of the Engels is perked up and interfered with when a brand-new housemaid, Farrah (Tala al Deen), from Syria enters their life.
“After quite a long time spent in the roaring 20s with Babylon Berlin, I can finally return to the present day,” statesTykwer “There are arguments, wrestling and fighting in Das Licht, but there is also laughter, singing and dancing. The film will explore and test the spectrum of emotions and the corresponding narrative possibilities. The characters are very familiar to me. I want to try to reflect their conflict and simultaneous connection for the audience and make it tangible.”
Tykwer’s last German-language film was the 2010 ménage à trois dramatization 3. Furthermore to the 2012 sci-fi impressive Cloud Atlas, which Tykwer co-wrote and co-directed with the Wachowski brother or sisters, his previous functions consist of The International (2009 ), Fragrance: The Tale of a Killer (2006 ), Paradise (2002 ), The Princess and the Warrior (2000 ), Run Lola Run (1998 ), Winter Season Sleepers (1997 ), and Deadly Maria (1993 ).
Created by Tykwer’s roof shingles X Filme Creative Swimming Pool, Das Licht, which was fired in Germany and Kenya, will certainly turn out theatrically in Germany by means of X Filme’s circulation arm X Verleih along with Detector Bros. Germany on October 17, 2024.
Uwe Schott is generating the film, with Babylon Berlin and Cloud Atlas cinematographer Christian Almesberger behind the electronic camera. Manufacturing developer is Tim Tamke (Pets of Berlin), Pierre-Yves Gayraud, that has actually collaborated with Tykwer on Cloud Atlas, Fragrance: The Tale of a Killer and Babylon Berlin, managed the outfit style.
Das Licht is being created in co-production with ZDF, ARP Séléction, Gold Thrill Photo, Gretchenfilm and B.A. Filmproduktion with aid assistance from Germany’s DFFF film fund, government film board the FFA and local aids from the Medienboard Berlin- Brandenburg and the Film and Medienstiftung NRW.
