04/08/2011

Luxembourg director Christophe Wagner (photo) has begun filming his fiction-feature debut Doudege wénkel on August 1 in the Grand Duchy.

The Luxembourg-language policier is produced by Claude Waringo for local production company Samsa Film, in co-production with Patrick Quintet of Belgian sister company Artémis Productions.

Waringo is Samsa’s producer of local features, and recently produced Beryl Koltz’s upcoming Hot Hot Hot and Paul Kieffer’s 2007 feature Nuits d’Arabie, whose star, actor and former 'Shooting Star' Jules Werner, is also headlining the project.

Doudege wénkel, which translates as Blind Spot, was written by Wagner and co-scribe Frédéric Zeimet and is a gritty story set in a nocturnal, rainy Luxembourg. The murder of a policeman is investigated by veteran inspector (André Jung) who asks the brother of the deceased (Werner), a disillusioned policeman with erratic behaviour, to help investigate the case, which quickly leads them to the last affair their colleague was investigating before he died.

Besides the central duo played by Werner and Jung (Perl oder Pica, the films of Andy Bausch), the cast is rounded out by Brigitte Urhausen, Luc Feit, Nicole Max, Mickey Hardt and Myriam Muller.

Filming will continue in Luxembourg until September 16.

The Luxembourg Film Fund, MEDIA and ALGOA Luxembourg are backing the project financially.