Sagafilm, Iceland’s leading production company, is joining forces with Lisa G. Black’s banner Garnet Girl to produce Páll Grímsson’s “Afterlands,” an adventure drama based on Steven Heighton’s acclaimed novel about the failed 1871 USS Polaris expedition to the North Pole.
“Afterlands” is set to topline Johannes Kuhnke, the star of Ruben Ostlund’s “Force Majeure,” popular German actor Sebastian Hulk (Netflix’s “Dark”) and Frederick Lau (“Victoria”).
The film will center on Roland Kruger, an idealistic German seaman, who along with 15
men, women and children of different national and ethnic backgrounds are cast adrift on an ice floe after
being separated from their ship. As days turn to weeks and rations run low, the crew splinters into factions along national and ethnic lines.
Heighton’s novel was first published in 2005 and has been unanimously praised by international literary critics. The Guardian’s Peter Nichols called it a “big, ambitious, literary...
“Afterlands” is set to topline Johannes Kuhnke, the star of Ruben Ostlund’s “Force Majeure,” popular German actor Sebastian Hulk (Netflix’s “Dark”) and Frederick Lau (“Victoria”).
The film will center on Roland Kruger, an idealistic German seaman, who along with 15
men, women and children of different national and ethnic backgrounds are cast adrift on an ice floe after
being separated from their ship. As days turn to weeks and rations run low, the crew splinters into factions along national and ethnic lines.
Heighton’s novel was first published in 2005 and has been unanimously praised by international literary critics. The Guardian’s Peter Nichols called it a “big, ambitious, literary...
- 2/8/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety - Film News
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