Beta Cinema Picks Up ‘The Fox’ by Adrian Goiginger, Director of Break-Out Hit ‘The Best of All Worlds’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features EditorBeta Cinema will handle international sales on “The Fox,” a drama about an Austrian soldier and his friendship with a wounded fox cub, set during World War II.
Alamode Filmverleih will release the film in German-speaking territories in early 2023.The film is directed by Adrian Goiginger, whose directorial debut “The Best of All Worlds” became a break-out hit after premiering at the Berlinale in 2017, winning more than 100 awards around the world.Beta Cinema will introduce “The Fox” to select international buyers at the German Previews, the annual industry event organized by German Films in Munich from June 20-23.“The Fox” is the true story of Franz Streitberger, Goiginger’s great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian army, which was incorporated into the German Wehrmacht.
At the beginning of World War II, the introverted young soldier comes across a wounded fox cub that he looks after as if it were his own child, and takes to occupied France with him.
Through this friendship with the wild animal, his own past as an outcast farmer’s son, which he has always run away from, slowly catches up with him.
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