16/05/2013 - Copenhagen-based TrustNordisk has just closed a deal on Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland's upcoming dark comedy The Prize Idiot with Germany's Neue Visionen Filmverleigh

Copenhagen-based TrustNordisk, which is representing in Cannes some of the Nordic region's hottest directors, has just closed a deal on Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland's (photo) upcoming dark comedy The Prize Idiot, with Germany's Neue Visionen. The sales company is premiering six titles in the market including Ragnarok and Pioneer, both pre-sold to Magnolia Pictures for the US.

Neue Visionen CEO Torsten Frehse said: “We are thrilled and very happy about working with Trust Nordisk on this project which promises a lot of commercial and aesthetic potential. After our successful co-operation on Hans Petter Moland's A Somewhat Gentleman, we are looking forward to this new collaboration.” Currently in post-production, the film produced by Norway’s Paradox Film has a stellar European cast including Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz and Pål Sverre Hagen (Kon-Tiki [+see also:
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Deprived this year from the opportunity to make waves on the Croisette with the controversial director Lars von Trier (Nymphomaniac [+see also:
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film profile] will not ready before late 2013), Zentropa’s sales arm should still has a very busy market. Six strong titles are premiering at the market at buyers only screenings: the crime book adaptations Easy Money 3-Life Deluxe, The Keeper of Lost Causes and The Hidden Child, the Norwegian thriller Pioneer and epic adventure Ragnarok, both pre-sold to Magnolia Pictures in the US, and the Swedish romantic comedy Love & Lemons.

Upcoming films submitted for pre-sales comprise Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone to Love starring Mikael Persbrandt and Trine Dyrholm, Kristian Levring’s western The Salvation starring Mads Mikkelsen, Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best, and of course Nymphomaniac, already closed in many territories.