‘Babylon Berlin’ Star Lars Eidinger Leading Futuristic Romance Movie ‘Behind The Knothole’

EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Berlin star Lars Eidinger is leading futuristic romance movie Behind the Knothole, with producers seeking financing at Cannes.

Eidinger, who has starred in festival favorites such as Palme d’Or nominees Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper, and this year’s Berlinale Silver Bear-winner Dying, will play Fin in David Schalko‘s project.

The protagonist is a troubled and unpublished author who begins a complicated love affair with his new neighbour’s wife, Mia. They spend their days in romantic and poetic bliss, while Fin spends his nights tormented by everything he can hear that goes on and is said in Mia’s apartment through a curious section of shared wall. Mia moves and ends the affair but sends a copy of herself to continue the relationship with Fin, who can’t help but want the original Mia back.

Superfilm and Fun Republic Pictures will represent the movie at Cannes and are seeking international sales agents as they continue to cast its remaining roles. Pre-production will begin in Canada later this year and filming is anticipated in 2025.

Eidinger has played Alfred Nyssen in 40 episodes of Sky’s Babylon Berlin. Other standout roles include in TV series Irma Vep and All the Light We Cannot See, while he has starred in a number of indie movies that have performed well at festivals such as Olivier Assayas duo Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper, both of which featured Kristen Stewart. He recently collaborated with Behind the Knothole director Schalko on German-Austrian mini-series Kafka.

“Lars carries every role there is to play within him,” said Schalko. “For the role of Fin, it’s the other way around. No one else but Lars could play him. He is a kind of Don Quixote; however, his giants are the many faces of Mia.”

Behind the Knothole was developed with the financial support of the Austrian Film Institute. The film will be financed in partnership with Volume Global and is being structured as an Austria/Canada treaty co-production between Superfilm and Fun Republic Pictures. John Lueftner and David Cormican will produce the film which is written and directed by Schalko. Schalko will also serve as an EP alongside Superfilm’s Katharina Theissen (School of Champions, M—A City Hunts A Murderer), Karma Film’s Anand Ramayya (Brotherhood, Funny Boy), Volume Global’s Michael Hamilton-Wright (Dylan & Zoey, King of Killers) and Christopher Rush Harrington (King of Killers, Hustle Down).