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EXCLUSIVE: Archstone Entertainment has acquired worldwide income authorities to Russian Poland, a caller characteristic movie written and group to beryllium directed by nan Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker David Mamet.
The movie will beryllium produced by Barry Germansky, pinch Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin serving arsenic executive producers. Casting is group to statesman this summer, pinch a planned outpouring 2027 accumulation start. Archstone will motorboat worldwide income connected nan task astatine Toronto.
The film’s charismatic synopsis reads: “Set successful 1948, Russian Poland follows 2 Jewish-American WWII veterans who, disguised arsenic British airmen, bargain a bomber to tally arms to Israel. When a mysterious aged Holocaust subsister joins them aboard nan flight, his uncanny parables astir a vanished shtetl toggle shape their ngo into a belief reckoning, 1 that whitethorn find whether nan 3 men scope nan seashore alive.”
Russian Poland is nan latest characteristic task from Mamet, whose credits span nan shape and screen, including Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables, The Verdict, American Buffalo, House of Games, Hoffa, The Edge, The Spanish Prisoner, Wag nan Dog, Heist, Henry Johnson, and nan upcoming Speed-the-Plow, which is group to prima Anthony Mackie, Ben Mendelsohn, Emily Alyn Lind & Sharon Stone.
Scott Martin of Archstone Entertainment described Mamet arsenic “one of nan awesome American storytellers” successful a connection and said, “Russian Poland is simply a powerful, unique task from 1 of nan astir important writer-directors of our time.”
“Over nan past respective years, Archstone has built a location for elevated, filmmaker-driven cinema, and nary 1 embodies that tone much than David. We are honored to bring this profoundly individual and universally resonant movie to nan world marketplace,” said Scott Martin of Archstone Entertainment,” Martin added.
