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PRODUCTION / FUNDING Germany / Italy / Greece

Nana Neul shooting Daughters

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- The dramatic road movie will star Birgit Minichmayr and Alexandra Maria Lara

Nana Neul shooting Daughters
Birgit Minichmayr in Daughters (© Heimatfilm/Wolfgang Ennenbach)

German filmmaker Nana Neul, known for To Faro (My Friend from Faro) [+see also:
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and Silent Summer [+see also:
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, is readying a new film. Based on German author Lucy Fricke’s successful novel of the same name, Daughters (lit. “Daughters”) is currently in production and will centre on Betty and Martha, two women pushing 40, who set off from Germany to accompany their dying father to Switzerland. There, he is to fulfil his last wish: that of committing assisted suicide in a special institute. Their journey leads them through Italy and Greece.

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Daughterswill star Birgit Minichmayr (Everyone Else [+see also:
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, 3 Days in Quiberon [+see also:
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interview: Emily Atef
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) and Alexandra Maria Lara (Downfall [+see also:
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interview: Bernd Eichinger
interview: Joachim Fest
interview: Oliver Hirschbiegel
film profile
]
, Control [+see also:
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) in the lead roles, while Josef Bierbichler, Giorgio Colangeli and Andreas Konstantinou are also among the cast of the upcoming dramatic road movie.

Filming took place in Germany earlier this year and continued in Greece after the lockdown imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The last tranche of the shoot is set to take place in September and October in Italy.

German production outfit Heimatfilm (Bettina Brokemper) is staging the feature in co-production with Greek company Heretic (Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis), Italy’s Simila(r) (Simone Gattoni, Laura Buffoni and Michael Weber), Warner Bros Film Productions Germany and Little Shark Entertainment (Germany).

The film was backed by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the German Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), the National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication in Greece (EKOME), and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities in Italy (MIBAC). Cologne-based company The Match Factory is handling the world sales.

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