Beta Cinemas has sold Hammarskjold – Fight For Peace, the Swedish box office hit, across Europe as a slew of deals were unveiled at EFM in Berlin.
The biopic has gone to Rai Cinema in Italy, Swift Productions for France, Twelve Oaks Spain, Portugal’s Outsider Films and Discovery for the former Yugoslavia. Beta adds a U.S. deal is under negotiation.
Hammarskjöld – Fight For Peace, directed and co-written by Per Fly, stars Sex Education actor Mikael Persbrandt in the role of Dag Hammarskjöld, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Fly wrote and directed the feature film Backstabbing for Beginners for A24, with Theo James and Ben Kingsley in the leading roles. He also directed the popular Danish political drama Borgen and is currently is in preproduction on the Nordic crime series Reservatet for Netflix.
Hammarskjold – Fight fo Peace, set in New York City in 1961, follows Hammarskjold as the UN head looking to bring peace to a host of African countries and thwart the legacy of colonial-era resource stripping. But when the UN dipomat boards a plane for the Congo to negotiate a ceasefire, the aircraft crashes and Hammarskjold dies under mysterious conditions.
The film’s cast includes Francis Chouler, Cian Barry, Colin Salmon, Sara Soulié and Richard Brake.
Hammarskjöld – Fight For Peace, which is receiving market screenings at EFM, is produced by Unlimited Stories, Nordisk Film, SVT, Film I Väst, TV4, Nordsvensk Filmunderhållning, Maipo Film, Meta Film, Per Fly APS and Cambo Productions.
