Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Playmaker has secured international sales rights for “Red Stars Upon the Field,” the feature debut from writer-director Laura Laabs.
The film will have its international premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam following its world premiere at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in Germany.
The Playmaker will launch international sales at next month’s European Film Market in Berlin. The film centers on the discovery of a skeleton buried in a moor in rural East Germany, sparking curiosity among the locals.
Who could it be? A soldier who deserted in 1944 from the Wehrmacht? A desperate farmer from one of East Germany’s agricultural cooperatives shortly before the capitalist takeover?
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