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A24 has submitted a number of key land deals for Jonathan Glazer’s Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. The Zone of Interest before the awards ceremony on Saturday.
The film has been sold to Austria and Germany (Leonine), Benelux (Cineart), France (Bac), Greece (Spentzos), Italy (I Wonder), Japan (Happinet Phantom Studios), Scandinavia (SF Studios), Spain (Elastica ) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi).
Other distributors include Poland’s Gutek, which pre-purchased the film in a non-negotiated deal by A24.
The holocaust drama stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a camp-side house and garden.
The film is Glazer’s first feature film in a decade since the sci-fi drama starring Scarlett Johansson. Under the skin – as well as his first film to premiere at Cannes.
The drama is based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis, who died just one day after the film opened to rave reviews in Competition at Cannes.
Deadline’s Pete Hammond said of the film: “The Zone of Interest It takes its place among the great films made about the Holocaust and will probably haunt you long after you see it.” Read the full post here.
It is produced by British James Wilson, who previously worked with Glazer on Under the skinand the Polish Ewa Puszcyńska (Going, Cold War), supported by A24 and Film 4.
