Beta Film has dropped the trailer for “Estonia,” a Scandinavian limited series about Europe’s deadliest civil maritime disaster.
The eight-part cinematic show, which is represented in international markets by Jan Mojto’s Beta Film (“Babylon Berlin”), charts the sinking of the Ms Estonia on Sept. 28, 1994, which killed over 850 people.
The series is directed by Swedish director Måns Månsson and Finnish director Juuso Syrjä. While the sinking of the ship is an important part of the show, “Estonia” also spotlights the tentacular probe launched in the aftermath of the tragedy by the Joint Accident Investigation Committee established by Sweden, Estonia and Finland.
Showrunner Miikko Oikkonen, who co-wrote the series with Olli Suitiala and Tuomas Hakola, said that when he “started to read the final report and went through the material, (he) realized the investigation itself was even more interesting than the accident.”
“It was a power play, a political game...
The eight-part cinematic show, which is represented in international markets by Jan Mojto’s Beta Film (“Babylon Berlin”), charts the sinking of the Ms Estonia on Sept. 28, 1994, which killed over 850 people.
The series is directed by Swedish director Måns Månsson and Finnish director Juuso Syrjä. While the sinking of the ship is an important part of the show, “Estonia” also spotlights the tentacular probe launched in the aftermath of the tragedy by the Joint Accident Investigation Committee established by Sweden, Estonia and Finland.
Showrunner Miikko Oikkonen, who co-wrote the series with Olli Suitiala and Tuomas Hakola, said that when he “started to read the final report and went through the material, (he) realized the investigation itself was even more interesting than the accident.”
“It was a power play, a political game...
- 8/31/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
It’s pitch dark and stormy and Pelle Heikkilä, one of Finland’s biggest stars, is getting slammed by massive waves in a 10-meter-deep water tank.
The shoot of “Estonia,” a Scandinavian limited series about Europe’s deadliest civil maritime disaster, is underway in Belgium at an indoor water stage. The eight-part cinematic show, which is budgeted at €15 million (14.7 million) and is being shopped by Jan Mojto’s Beta Film (“Babylon Berlin”) at Mipcom, charts the sinking of the Ms Estonia on Sept. 28, 1994, which killed over 850 people.
The series is directed by Swedish director Måns Månsson and Finnish director Juuso Syrjä, who are polar opposites, one coming from festival-friendly auteur filmmaking, the other coming from high-end commercials.
Like the cast and crew of the series, the tragedy itself involved multiple countries, including Estonia, because it was an Estonian ship and departed from Tallinn; Sweden, because nearly half of the people...
The shoot of “Estonia,” a Scandinavian limited series about Europe’s deadliest civil maritime disaster, is underway in Belgium at an indoor water stage. The eight-part cinematic show, which is budgeted at €15 million (14.7 million) and is being shopped by Jan Mojto’s Beta Film (“Babylon Berlin”) at Mipcom, charts the sinking of the Ms Estonia on Sept. 28, 1994, which killed over 850 people.
The series is directed by Swedish director Måns Månsson and Finnish director Juuso Syrjä, who are polar opposites, one coming from festival-friendly auteur filmmaking, the other coming from high-end commercials.
Like the cast and crew of the series, the tragedy itself involved multiple countries, including Estonia, because it was an Estonian ship and departed from Tallinn; Sweden, because nearly half of the people...
- 10/19/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Beta has pre-sold sprawling Finnish drama series “Estonia” to Germany’s broadcaster Seven.One Entertainment Group, the parent company of ProSieben. This acquisition marks the start of a collaboration between Beta and Seven.One Entertainment.
The eight-hour drama, about the deadliest civil maritime disaster in recent European history, is now in its third week of shooting.
Produced by Fisher King, a subsidiary of Beta Nordic Studio, the drama charts the sinking of the Ms Estonia on September 28, 1994 which claimed the lives of over 850 people. The series also chronicles the tentacular investigation launched in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Miikko Oikkonen created the series based on numerous testimonies of survivors, which were classified until recently. The story is told though the perspectives of survivors, investigators and journalists.
“Estonia” reunites the creative team behind “Chernobyl,” including award-winning Swedish director Måns Månsson (“Snabba Cash”), cinematographer Jani-Petteri Passi and the VFX company Dneg.
The series...
The eight-hour drama, about the deadliest civil maritime disaster in recent European history, is now in its third week of shooting.
Produced by Fisher King, a subsidiary of Beta Nordic Studio, the drama charts the sinking of the Ms Estonia on September 28, 1994 which claimed the lives of over 850 people. The series also chronicles the tentacular investigation launched in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Miikko Oikkonen created the series based on numerous testimonies of survivors, which were classified until recently. The story is told though the perspectives of survivors, investigators and journalists.
“Estonia” reunites the creative team behind “Chernobyl,” including award-winning Swedish director Måns Månsson (“Snabba Cash”), cinematographer Jani-Petteri Passi and the VFX company Dneg.
The series...
- 7/22/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The 30th anniversary edition of the German festival ran online.
Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Conference won the main prize for best film at Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus on Sunday December 13.
It is the story that incorporates the tragedy of the Dubrovka Theatre attack in Moscow in 2002 with the fate of one woman and her family. The film, which is handled internationally by Reason8 Films, had been pitched at project stage at the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus during the FilmFestival Cottbus in 2019. It made its world premiere earlier this year at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
It is...
Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Conference won the main prize for best film at Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus on Sunday December 13.
It is the story that incorporates the tragedy of the Dubrovka Theatre attack in Moscow in 2002 with the fate of one woman and her family. The film, which is handled internationally by Reason8 Films, had been pitched at project stage at the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus during the FilmFestival Cottbus in 2019. It made its world premiere earlier this year at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
It is...
- 12/14/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Piotr Domalewski's drama I Never Cry and Ivan Ikić's Oasis were also noticed during the 30th-anniversary edition of the German festival, this year unspooling online. Prizes worth €72,000 were handed out at the 30th edition of the FilmFestival Cottbus on 12 December during an awards ceremony broadcast online, with Ivan I Tverdovskiy's Conference named Best Film. Interestingly enough, it marked the third victory for the Russian filmmaker after Corrections Class and Zoology. “It serves as proof of the successful work of our co-production market, the international standing of both events and, last but not least, the excellent interaction between the market and the festival,” observed CEO Andreas Stein, noting that Conference was previously pitched in its connecting cottbus industry sidebar. The jury, consisting of Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Axel Ranisch, Bodo Kox, Maria Trigo Teixeira and Yang Ge, called the film “a masterpiece composed in minute detail”, noting that its “whirlwind-like power...
- 12/14/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel star in A Dangerous Method which gets a first poster. The project reunites Mortensen with frequent collaborator director David Cronenberg, who work together on winners like Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the book of the same title by John Kerr, and play by Hampton, A Dangerous Method is a look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gave birth to psychoanalysis. Also in the cast of A Dangerous Method are Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke and Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey...
- 8/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel star in A Dangerous Method which gets a first poster. The project reunites Mortensen with frequent collaborator director David Cronenberg, who work together on winners like Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the book of the same title by John Kerr, and play by Hampton, A Dangerous Method is a look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gave birth to psychoanalysis. Also in the cast of A Dangerous Method are Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke and Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey...
- 8/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel star in A Dangerous Method which gets a first poster. The project reunites Mortensen with frequent collaborator director David Cronenberg, who work together on winners like Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the book of the same title by John Kerr, and play by Hampton, A Dangerous Method is a look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gave birth to psychoanalysis. Also in the cast of A Dangerous Method are Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke and Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey...
- 8/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have added the first trailer for Sony Pictures Classics and director David Cronenberg's, "A Dangerous Method." The film stars Viggo Mortenson as famous Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud.Based on the John Kerr novel "A Most Dangerous Method," the film also stars Keria Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey and Mignon Remé.Watch the trailer below;"A Dangerous Method" is set for release across the UK from February 12th, 2012. A Us release date is yet to be announced. Set on the eve of the World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between...
- 6/22/2011
- by Anthony Pearson
- Monsters and Critics
The A Dangerous Method Trailer has premiered. David Cronenberg‘s A Dangerous Method (2011) movie trailer stars Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Vincent Cassel, and Sarah Gadon. A Dangerous Method‘s plot synopsis: “Based on Christopher Hampton’s acclaimed 2002 play “The Talking Cure,” the film centers on the relationship between Carl Jung (Fassbender) and Russian-Jewish patient Sabina Spielrein (Knightley), who ultimately causes a rift between Jung and mentor Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) but also catalyses strong findings in regards to Jungian psychoanalysis.”
This looks very good and twisted. David Cronenberg has a great eye and I look forward to seeing how his eye is used in a drama movie. I can’t say I have ever seen Keira Knightley playing such a risky part before. I thought the same thing about Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream. Both women seem like victims of circumstance but I do not know if...
This looks very good and twisted. David Cronenberg has a great eye and I look forward to seeing how his eye is used in a drama movie. I can’t say I have ever seen Keira Knightley playing such a risky part before. I thought the same thing about Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream. Both women seem like victims of circumstance but I do not know if...
- 6/22/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The trailer of the film A Dangerous Method is now online. The release date for this film from Canadian director David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises) is set for December 23 in Montreal.
The story takes place on the eve of World War I in Austria. At that time, psychology, as a science, was still in its infancy. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), respectively a Swiss psychologist/psychiatrist and an Austrian neurologist, meet for the first time. This is because Freud is enthralled by Jung's favourable views on psychoanalysis, a method that Freud pioneered.
The film will mostly document the moment when Carl Jung treats Sabiena Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a patient who suffers from hysteria. Despite being married to Emma Jung (Sarah Gadon), Carl Jung gets into a extramarital relationship with Sabina Spielrein. In 1909, this relation might become public and Jung talks about it to Freud.
This film, which...
The story takes place on the eve of World War I in Austria. At that time, psychology, as a science, was still in its infancy. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), respectively a Swiss psychologist/psychiatrist and an Austrian neurologist, meet for the first time. This is because Freud is enthralled by Jung's favourable views on psychoanalysis, a method that Freud pioneered.
The film will mostly document the moment when Carl Jung treats Sabiena Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a patient who suffers from hysteria. Despite being married to Emma Jung (Sarah Gadon), Carl Jung gets into a extramarital relationship with Sabina Spielrein. In 1909, this relation might become public and Jung talks about it to Freud.
This film, which...
- 6/22/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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