Juho Kuosmanen, the director of Cannes prizewinner “Compartment No. 6,” has accomplished casting on function movie “Dream Come True,” which is a bittersweet comedy impressed by a real story. His third function movie will star Magnus Millang (“Another Round”), Paprika Steen (“Families Likes Ours,” “Festen”) and newcomer Ellen Kihri.
First plot particulars have been unveiled for the movie, which is scheduled to shoot later this yr in Finland, Denmark and France.
“Dream Come True” is the story of 43-year-old Rasmus, a Danish business diver who clears blocked drains and welds seams deep underwater for a residing. Fortune smiles on Rasmus when he discovers a shipwreck throughout considered one of his dives. Within the wreckage, Rasmus discovers 1000’s of pristine bottles of champagne from the oldest drinkable classic on the planet – a treasure value thousands and thousands.
After residing together with his daughter below his mom’s roof for thus lengthy, that is his probability at a brand new life. However Rasmus will come to appreciate that some desires are greatest left undiscovered.
Kuosmanen commented, “Diving and underwater adventures have been passions of mine since I used to be a toddler. Ever since I began making movies, it has been my dream to discover a story set in a marine surroundings and the silent world beneath the floor. This movie was impressed by true occasions, however now we have distanced the story from historic information and added a tragicomic tone acquainted from my earlier films.
“While writing, I started thinking about the brilliant Danish actor Magnus Millang as the main character Rasmus. We drove thousands of kilometres all around Denmark and decided to set the story largely in Jutland. Jutland’s harbors, fishing boats and rugged seascapes provide the perfect setting for an adventure film in which a diver from a small fishing village dreams of great achievements.”
Each of Kuosmanen’s earlier options had been acknowledged with main awards in Cannes and went on to strong worldwide distribution.
“Compartment No. 6” received the Grand Prix in Cannes’ 2021 Competitors, happening to be distributed by Sony Footage Classics within the U.S. and a number of other different key worldwide territories. The movie was shortlisted for greatest worldwide function movie on the 94th Academy Awards.
Kuosmanen received the Cannes Un Sure Regard Prize together with his 2016 function debut “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,” which additionally scooped the Zurich Movie Pageant’s Golden Eye and a Gold Hugo within the Chicago Intl. Movie Pageant’s New Administrators Competitors, happening to be distributed by MUBI within the U.S. and U.Okay. “The Painting Sellers” (2010) received the primary prize on the Cannes Cinéfondation.
“Dream Come True” is produced by Katrin Pors from Denmark’s Snowglobe (“Godland,” “The Worst Person in the World,” “Fjord”) and Jussi Rantamäki, Kuosmanen’s long-time manufacturing companion with Finland’s Aamu Movie Firm (“Compartment No. 6,” “Fjord”) in coproduction with Germany’s One Two Movies (“Holy Spider,” “The Secret Agent”), the U.Okay.’s Portobello Productions (“Coward”) and Sweden’s Kjellson & Wik (“Gentle Monster,” “Force Majeure”).
The movie is supported by the Danish Movie institute, the Finnish Movie Basis, Vestdanske Movie Pulje, Enterprise Finland, Nordic Movie and TV Fund, the German Federal Movie Board, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, DR, Yle, SR, WDR, ARTE, SVT and Artistic Europe Media.
