Magnus picked up by Onoma
by Annika Pham
The Estonian film Magnus by writer/director Kadri Kõusaar, screening in this year’s Un Certain Regard at Cannes, has been picked up for international sales by Paris-based Onoma International.
Based on a true story (see article), Kõusaar’s directorial debut centres on Magnus, a sensitive boy from a family in which noone really cares about him. As a child, he suffers from a potentially fatal lung disease and plays bizarre games to cheat death. Ten years later modern medicine has cured the disease but Magnus' death wish continues. After a second attempt to take his own life his father's conscience finally awakens.
The film is a co-production between Donus Films in the UK and Vitamin K Films in Estonia.
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