Sales include Japan, Brazil and Taiwan.
LevelK has closed a number of deals for Klaus Härö’s One Last Deal, after the Finnish drama’s world premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section.
Sales have been done for Japan (New Select), Australia/New Zealand (Rialto),
Brazil (Cineart Filmes), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), and worldwide airlines excluding Taiwan & the Nordics (Encore Inflight Limited).
The story follows an elderly art dealer on the verge of retirement who wants to pull off one last big deal, with the help of his estranged grandson. Anna Heinämaa wrote the screenplay.
Lauren Valmadre, sales manager at LevelK,...
LevelK has closed a number of deals for Klaus Härö’s One Last Deal, after the Finnish drama’s world premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section.
Sales have been done for Japan (New Select), Australia/New Zealand (Rialto),
Brazil (Cineart Filmes), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), and worldwide airlines excluding Taiwan & the Nordics (Encore Inflight Limited).
The story follows an elderly art dealer on the verge of retirement who wants to pull off one last big deal, with the help of his estranged grandson. Anna Heinämaa wrote the screenplay.
Lauren Valmadre, sales manager at LevelK,...
- 9/19/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Scandinavian sales outfit LevelK has picked up “One Last Deal,” Finnish director Klaus Härö’s follow up to Golden Globe-nominated film “The Fencer.”
Set to world premiere at Toronto in the Contemporary World Cinema section, “One Last Deal” follows Olavi, an elderly art dealer on the verge of retirement who has always put business and art before everything, and embarks on a journey to sell an unmarked painting found at an auction. The film was written by Anna Heinämaa, and it stars Heikki Nousiainen, Amos Brotherus and Pirjo Lonka.
One of Finland’s most successful filmmakers, Härö made his feature debut with “Elina” which won the Berlin Crystal Bear in 2003, while his latest film “The Fencer” was shortlisted for an Oscar and nominated for a foreign-language Golden Globe in 2016.
“One Last Deal” is produced by Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho at Making Movies whose credits include “The Fencer” and Tonislav Hristov’s “The Good Postman.
Set to world premiere at Toronto in the Contemporary World Cinema section, “One Last Deal” follows Olavi, an elderly art dealer on the verge of retirement who has always put business and art before everything, and embarks on a journey to sell an unmarked painting found at an auction. The film was written by Anna Heinämaa, and it stars Heikki Nousiainen, Amos Brotherus and Pirjo Lonka.
One of Finland’s most successful filmmakers, Härö made his feature debut with “Elina” which won the Berlin Crystal Bear in 2003, while his latest film “The Fencer” was shortlisted for an Oscar and nominated for a foreign-language Golden Globe in 2016.
“One Last Deal” is produced by Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho at Making Movies whose credits include “The Fencer” and Tonislav Hristov’s “The Good Postman.
- 8/16/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
MaryAnn’s quick take… The true story of an Estonian sports hero offers a lovely twist on a familiar tale. A cinematic triumph from a nation that’s been missing from the global film stage. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s a familiar sort of tale, but in a setting we haven’t seen before: Reluctant teacher ends up inspiring underdog kids to succeed in a sport they have no prior experience in… in early 1950s Estonia, the Baltic republic annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II and suffering under Stalin’s harsh regime. Endel Nelis (Märt Avandi), in hiding from the secret police (he’s wanted for a completely unjust reason) in the small town of Haapsalu, takes a job teaching phys ed in the local secondary school; it’s...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s a familiar sort of tale, but in a setting we haven’t seen before: Reluctant teacher ends up inspiring underdog kids to succeed in a sport they have no prior experience in… in early 1950s Estonia, the Baltic republic annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II and suffering under Stalin’s harsh regime. Endel Nelis (Märt Avandi), in hiding from the secret police (he’s wanted for a completely unjust reason) in the small town of Haapsalu, takes a job teaching phys ed in the local secondary school; it’s...
- 11/30/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
★☆☆☆☆ At first glance The Fencer has a lot going for it. Set in Soviet occupied Estonia, it is the oddball tale - partly based on true events - of a renowned fencer (Märt Avandi, known as Endel in the film) on the run from the authorities who sets up a school fencing club in a backwater town. But although the material has real potential for innovative storytelling and historical insight, in director Klaus Härö and writer Anna Heinämaa's hands it quickly degenerates into a mess of clichés and clunkiness.
- 9/29/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Exclusive: Drama is directed by Klaus Härö and will head to next week’s Cannes Marche.
Ahead of next week’s Cannes Marche, The Little Film Company has acquire the latest feature from Finnish director Klaus Härö, The Fencer.
Härö won the Crystal Bear at Berlin 2003 with his feature debut, Elina: As If I Wasn’t There, and has since made films including Mother of Mine (2005) and Letters To Father Jacob (2009), which sold around the world.
His latest film is about a young Estonian fencer who flees from the Russian secret police and is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school - but the past soon catches up with him.
The Fencer is written by Anna Heinämaa and stars Märt Avandi andß Ursula Ratasepp. The film is a Making Movies production, produced by Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho.
London and La-based The Little Film Company is also...
Ahead of next week’s Cannes Marche, The Little Film Company has acquire the latest feature from Finnish director Klaus Härö, The Fencer.
Härö won the Crystal Bear at Berlin 2003 with his feature debut, Elina: As If I Wasn’t There, and has since made films including Mother of Mine (2005) and Letters To Father Jacob (2009), which sold around the world.
His latest film is about a young Estonian fencer who flees from the Russian secret police and is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school - but the past soon catches up with him.
The Fencer is written by Anna Heinämaa and stars Märt Avandi andß Ursula Ratasepp. The film is a Making Movies production, produced by Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho.
London and La-based The Little Film Company is also...
- 5/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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