'The Drop' lands subsidy from NRW
COLOGNE, Germany -- The Drop, a World War II action thriller featuring German stars Til Schweiger and Thomas Kretschmann, received a major financial boost Monday when Germany's largest regional film financing board, filmstifftung NRW, backed it with a 1.7 million ($2.1 million) subsidy. The feature, a co-production between Schweiger's production company Mr. Brown Entertainment and the U.K.'s Carnaby Films, is set in Holland during the second world war and tells of a race to find a hidden stash of Nazi gold. U.K. helmer Harry Hook (Aka Albert Walker) will direct. NRW also announced it was giving 1.1 million ($1.4 million) to the Germany/United Kingdom/Canada co-production Prelude to Parsival, a romantic drama set in New York in 1903 and written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Martin Barry. Other projects to receive NRW coin include Valley of Flowers, from Indian writer-director Nalin Pan (Samsara); the Miguel Sapochnik-directed You Can't Come In; and Mama und Papa, a two-part miniseries from German director Dieter Wedel.
- 2/3/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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