INDIANA JONES 5 Actor Thomas Kretschmann Will Star in New WWII Film THE PROMINENT
Director Peter Webber (Hannibal Rising, Girl With A Pearl Earring) is set to direct a new World War II film titled The Prominent. The Pianist, Valkyrie, and Indiana Jones 5 actor Thomas Kretschmann is set to star in the movie.
The film is set in the chaotic final days of World War II, and the story follows “a group of Nazi Germany’s most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe, out of Allied reach, to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender. On their journey, they endure aerial attacks, collapsing bridges, partisan raids, and the escalating threat of liquidation by their Nazi captors.”
Kretschmann will take on the role of Bogislaw von Bonin, “a German prisoner battling his own demons: complicity in the war’s atrocities and the drug abuse he uses to cope with it.”
The movie also stars Hippolyte Girardot (The French Dispatch) and Irène Jacob (The Double Life of Veronique), who will play French prime minister Leon Blum, and his wife, Janot, respectively. Valentina Cervi (Jane Eyre) will play an Italian partisan fighter and fellow prisoner on the dangerous transport. Vinzenz Kiefer, Jakub Gierszal, and Andreas Lust also star.
Webber said in a statement: “This is not so much a war film as it is a film that takes place at the end of a war, a story set in the disaster and ruin of a failed attempt to build an empire. It is a film about defeat and survival, a story about fascism, a warning about the fate of those who embrace this evil ideology. In a world where these pernicious ideas are on the rise again, from populist politics to the horrors committed under the mark of the letter Z, this is a film that unflinchingly examines the darkness around us.”
Writer, Stroh, added: “The Prominents is a war movie in the sense that Apocalypse Now is a war movie. The real subject is the primeval darkness within human nature. I am thrilled that the script spoke to Peter Webber and to such an amazing ensemble of actors but saddened that the material remains so relevant today.”
Production will begin in September 2022 in Poland and wrap in northern Italy, where the actual events took place.