Berlinale Title ‘Köln 75’, With Mala Emde & John Magaro As Keith Jarrett, Sells To Metropolitan, Lucky Red, SF Studios, HBO, Selecta Vision & More For Bankside
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Bankside has inked a slew of sales on Ido Fluk’s Köln 75 following its Special Gala premiere at the Berlinale this month.
The largely well-received film has sold to Bulgaria (Beta), Canada (Level Film), Czech/Slovak (AQS), Eastern Europe excluding Poland (HBO), Former Yugoslavia (Discovery), France (Metopolitan), Hungary (Budapest Film), Israel (Naschon/Red Cape), Italy (Lucky Red), Middle East (Front Row), Scandinavia (SF Studios), South Korea (The Coup) and Spain (Selecta Vision).
Alamode Film holds distribution rights for German-speaking Europe and will be releasing the film in March on more than 200 screens, September Film for Benelux and Madness for Poland.
Discussions are ongoing for distribution in both UK and U.S. The English and German-language pic tells the story behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t happen, and how one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, breaks boundaries to set the conditions for the creation of a masterpiece.
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