24-09-2012

PRODUCTION: Agnieszka Holland starts work onThe Death's Cold Hand

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    PRODUCTION: Agnieszka Holland starts work onThe Death's Cold Hand Agnieszka Holland

    WARSAW: The Oscar-nominated director of In Darkness (2011), Agnieszka Holland is starting work on The Death's Cold Hand (Zimna pięść śmierci), a thriller based on Olga Tokarczuk’s recent novel Drive your plough over the bones of the dead (Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych).

    The story follows Janina Duszejko, a former engineer, astrologist and a vegetarian living in a small village in the Sudeten Mountains who stumbles on the dead body of a poacher who has died a mysterious death. There are traces of deer hooves around his house. As the story progresses, dead bodies of various local VIPs are also discovered. All of them were hunters, suggesting they were murdered by wild animals seeking vengeance.

    The Death's Cold Hand is a Polish-German coproduction from Studio Filmowe TOR (www.tor.com.pl) and á Jour Film –Und Fernsehproduktions Gmbh. The project received a development grant of 58,700 EUR from the European MEDIA Programme and funding from the Polish-German Co-Development Fund (www.medienboard.de, www.mdm-online.de,www.pisf.pl). The total budget is expected to be about 3m EUR.

    Holland plans to work with her In Darkness cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska.

    Production Information

    Studio Filmowe TOR

    Puławska 61

    02-595 Warszawa

    Poland

    Phone number: (48 22) 845-53-03

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