{"id":31261,"date":"2025-09-19T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31261\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:32:09","slug":"kirill-serebrennikovs-the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele-sells-widely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31261\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirill Serebrennikov’s The Disappearance of Josef Mengele Sells Widely"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRussian filmmaker\u00a0Kirill Serebrennikov<\/a>\u2018s latest movie \u201cThe Disappearance of Josef Mengele\u201d <\/a>has been picked up in a raft of international territories. The film, which is sold by Gregoire Melin\u2019s Paris-based company Kinology<\/a>, world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe gripping film is based on\u00a0Olivier Guez<\/a>\u2019s bestselling novel by the same name which won the prestigious Renaudot Prize in 2017 in France and was published in more than 30 countries. August Diehl stars as Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor who found refuge in South America at the end of WWII where he rebuilt his life in hiding, and was never captured. Mengele died in Brazil in 1979 without having been judged for his crimes. The movie charts Mengele\u2019s fugitive years in South America, from Buenos Aires to Paraguay via Brazil, and ways in which he methodically orchestrated his disappearance to avoid being trialed. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Disappearance of Josef Mengele<\/a>\u201d has sparked a flurry of distribution deals to France (Bac Films), Germany (DCM Film Distribution), Italy (Europictures), Japan (Transformer), Latin America (Piano), Portugal (Pris Audiovisuais), Israel (Playhouse TLV), Sweden (Njutafilms), Hungary (Cirko Film), Indonesia (P.T. Falcon), Baltics (Estofilm), Benelux (Imagine Film Distribution), Bulgaria (Beta Film), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Film Europe), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom) and Romania (Independenta Film).<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn the film\u2019s press notes, Serebrennikov said he was \u201cintrigued\u201d by the prospect of adapting Guez\u2019s bestseller. \u201cWhat happens to war criminals after the war ends? Is there such a thing as divine justice?, the director asked, rhetorically. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThemes like karma, punishment, justice \u2013 these have always interested me,\u201d Serebrennikov said, adding that he was also given the freedom to expand on the book and create scenes, for instance the conversations between Josef Mengele and his son. <\/p>\n

\n\tSerebrennikov<\/a> is a celebrated filmmaker and playwright who has presented four films in competition at Cannes, including \u201cLimonov,\u201d \u201cLeto,\u201d \u201cPetrov\u2019s Flu\u201d and \u201cTchaikovsky\u2019s Wife.\u201d A dissident voice, he has clashed with the the Russian government <\/a>and faced a legal ordeal that prevented him from traveling overseas for nearly five years. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe helmer\u2019s German-language debut, \u201cThe Disappearance of Josef Mengele\u201d was produced by CG Cin\u00e9ma and Hype Studios, and co-produced by Lupa Films, Piano, LoremIpsum Entertainment, Scala Films, Bayerischer Rundfunk\u2013Arte, Gold Rush Pictures, ArteFrance Cin\u00e9ma, Red Production<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrejs Strokins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian filmmaker\u00a0Kirill Serebrennikov\u2018s latest movie \u201cThe Disappearance of Josef Mengele\u201d has been picked up in a raft of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25143,93,61,60,25144,270,25145],"class_list":["post-31261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cg-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kinology","tag-movies","tag-the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}