Juno Films has picked up the North American rights to the documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World ahead of its world premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
The film, to bow as part of the World Documentary Competition on Jan. 29, is directed by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri and produced by Stina Gardell's Stockholm-based Mantaray Film.
The Sundance doc portrays former child star Bjorn Andresen, whose life changed when at 15 years old he played Tadzio, the young boy for whom Dirk Bogarde develops an obsession in the 1971 movie Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti.
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