Sony Pictures Classics North America, Latin America, Middle East, Scandinavia, Australia/New Zealand, Turkey, India, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Japan, Thailand have obtained global rights of Alex Helfrecht’s animated movie A Winter’s Journey.
A Winter’s Journey is set in Bavaria in 1812, it follows a nomadic lovelorn poet who undertakes a hazardous walk across mountains, ice, and snow – a journey that will bring either death or a new life.
According to Deadline, A Winter’s Journey is a romantic and epic tale that blends live-action with CG and painted animation. The world of the film is the first to be built using PlayStation’s Dreams, developed by PlayStation Studios’ multiple-BAFTA-winning games studio Media Molecule. The picture is an adaptation of Franz Schubert’s timeless masterpiece Winterreise, the most performed classical song cycle in the world.
The cast includes John Malkovich, Jason Isaacs, Marcin Zarnick (Son of Saul, Sunset), Alfur Darri Lafson (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Martina Geek (Life of Others), and introduces Gabriella Moran.
A Winter’s Journey is produced by Jorg Tittel and Philip Munger at London-based Oiffy, along with Sean Bobbitt and Hugh Welchman through their Poland-based BreakThru Films, Reinhard Brundig at Germany-based Pandora Film (Only Lovers Left Alive), Benoît Roland’s Wrong Men North in Belgium, Raphaël Berdugo and Alexis Perrin in France, and Richard Mansell. Sebastien Barrillier and Yann Duboux are EPs. Shooting begins in June in Wrocław, Poland.
The deal was negotiated with Paris-based MK2 Films which is handling the international sales.