German star August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds, A Hidden Life) and Oscar-nominated actress Andrea Riseborough (Birdman, To Leslie) have signed on to star in The Noise of Time, a brand new drama in regards to the lifetime of Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich and his spouse Nina, tailored from Julian Barnes’ guide of the identical identify.
Two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (The Father, Harmful Liaisons) is adapting Barnes’ novel for the display, with Polish director Jan Komasa (the Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi) connected to direct.
The movie will hint the trajectory of Shostakovich’s life and profession, starting in 1936 when the 30-year-old composer first confronted Stalin’s wrath after certainly one of his operas is condemned as counter-revolutionary. He escapes execution however for many years Shostakovich is compelled to be a cultural consultant of the Soviet state, and struggles to keep up the integrity of his music.
Beta Cinema is dealing with world gross sales on the movie and can be introducing it to patrons on the Cannes movie market this week.
Diehl will subsequent be seen as Nazi physician Joseph Mengele in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Disappearance and in Michael Lockshin’s literary adaptation The Grasp and Margarita. Riseborough, Oscar-nominated for her function in Michael Morris’ To Leslie, starred alongside Domhnall Gleeson within the restricted sequence Alice & Jack.
Thomas Kufus is producing The Noise of Time for zero one movie with Leszek Bodzak and Aneta Hickinbotham of Aurum Movie and Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey at London-based Wildgaze Movies. The movie is ready to start manufacturing in early 2025.