EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont has found homes across multiple territories for The Stranger, French filmmaker Francois Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ lit
EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont has found homes across multiple territories for The Stranger, French filmmaker Francois Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ literary masterpiece after launching the film in Cannes.
The film has sold to Canada (Immina), Spain (BTeam Pictures), Japan (Kino Films), Italy (Bim), Germany (Weltkino), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Belgium (Athena), the Netherlands (Cherry Pickers), Portugal (Alambique), Turkey (Bir Film), Greece (Spentzos), Poland (Gutek), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), Romania (Independenta), ex-Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom Film), and CIS outside of the Baltics and Ukraine (A-One Films).
Benjamin Voisin, who starred in Ozon’s Summer Of ’85, reteams with the director to play the film’s protagonist Meursault, a Frenchman living in 1930s Algeria whose apathy and indifference to the surrounding world culminate in cold-blooded murder and a trial that explores both the crime and his character. The high-profile local cast also includes Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud and Denis Lavant.
The film is produced by Ozon’s production house FOZ and Gaumont. Shooting has just wrapped in Morocco.
Camus’ 1942 debut novel, which explores themes of human cruelty, existentialism and post-colonialism, is one of the most popular books in French literature and has been translated into some 75 languages.
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