{"id":890730,"date":"2026-10-22T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890730\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:04:11","slug":"sebastian-koch-toni-servillo-set-for-gabriele-salvatores-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890730\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Koch, Toni Servillo Set for Gabriele Salvatores’ Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSebastian Koch<\/a>, star of Oscar-winning German film \u201cThe Lives of Others,\u201d and Toni Servillo, protagonist of Italy\u2019s Oscar winner \u201cThe Great Beauty,\u201d are set to topline \u201cThe L\u00fcneburg Variation,\u201d a noir based in the world of chess, directed by Gabriele Salvatores<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tSalvatores \u2013 himself also winner of an Oscar for \u201cMediterraneo\u201d \u2013 has started shooting in Trieste on \u201cL\u00fcneburg Variation,\u201d which is based on the eponymous novel by Italian author Paolo Maurensig that has been translated into 25 languages. Nine weeks of principal photography are planned between Trieste and Rome.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will be distributed in Italy by RAI Cinema\u2019s 01 Distribution while RAI Cinema International Distribution is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe book opens with the suicide of a wealthy Munich businessman named Dieter Frisch near Vienna, leading to flashbacks of a revenge plot orchestrated through the game of chess.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is the story of a duel that lasts more than 40 years, fought by two adversaries on the battlefield of a chessboard. Chess! The most violent sport in existence and, perhaps, the least cinematic. It\u2019s a great challenge, and one I was happy to take on,\u201d Salvatores said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe director added that he would delve into \u201cthe violent, magical, esoteric and mysterious dimension of chess, that is, instead, truly cinematic!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMaurensig envisioned a film of half-light; darkness and fire. Compelling and cruel. I hope I can deliver just that\u2026,\u201d Salvatores went on to note.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the chess-world noir\u2019s main cast are German actor Damian Hardung (\u201cMaxton Hall\u201d); Thomas Prenn, who is from South Tyrol and starred in Terrence Malick\u2019s \u201cA Hidden Life\u201d; and Itay\u2019s Eduardo Scarpetta (\u201cMy Brilliant Friend\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe L\u00fcneburg Variation\u201d is being lead-produced by Raffaella Leone and Andrea Leone through their Lotus Production, which is a Leone Film Group company, with RAI Cinema, in association with Vice Pictures and also in association with Italy\u2019s Indiana and MDE.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are very happy to be working with Gabriele Salvatores, a filmmaker and director we have always loved for the mastery with which he takes you by the hand and transports you into his world, making you fall in love with cinema all over again \u2014 real cinema, great cinema with a capital C,\u201d Raffaella Leone said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrancesco Melzi d\u2019Eril, Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, Riccardo Volpato, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib, Fabrizio Donvito and Daniel Campos Pavoncelli are also producers on the film, which is being supported by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe key creative team on \u201cL\u00fcneburg Variation\u201d comprises Diego Indraccolo as director of photography; Rita Rabassini as production designer; Patrizia Chericoni as costume designer; and Federico De Robertis as composer.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLeone Film Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Koch, star of Oscar-winning German film \u201cThe Lives of Others,\u201d and Toni Servillo, protagonist of Italy\u2019s Oscar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,373382,206,372739,373383],"class_list":["post-890730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-gabriele-salvatores","tag-movies","tag-rome-mia-market","tag-sebastian-koch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}