Paris-based Playtime has sealed deals in key territories for François Ozon’s starry period drama The Crime Is Mine, featuring breakout actresses Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Rebecca Marder alongside Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussolier and Dany Boon.
The 1930s-set courtroom drama about an actress on trial for murdering a producer has sold to Gaga for Japan, New Cinema for Israel, Bir Film for Turkey and HES in Lebanon and the Gulf.
Gaumont will release the film in France on March 8.
“It’s one of the bigger movies of the first semester in France,” suggests Playtime’s Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of the film that opened Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris in January.
The film is Ozon’s follow-up to Peter Von Kant that premiered at last year’s Berlinale, also sold by Playtime.
Playtime has already sold The Crime Is Mine to Canada (Sphere Films), Spain (Caramel), Italy (BIM), Greece (Filmtrade), Germany (Welkino), Austria (Filmladen) Benelux (September Films), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), Hungary (Vertigo Media), the Baltics (A-One), CIS (A-One), Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic), Romania (Independenta Film) and Former Yugoslavia (MCF).
Rights in North America and other Asian markets are still available.
The Crime Is Mine is produced by Ozon’s longtime collaborators Mandarin Cinema’s Eric and Nicolas Altmayer alongside the filmmaker’s company FOZ and co-produced by Belgium’s Scope Pictures.
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