Mission Hail Mary and Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Hüller is teaming up with German director Maria Schrader (I’m Your Man, She Mentioned) on the brand new German drama Arbeit und Struktur (Work and Construction).
The movie is an adaptation of the acclaimed autobiographical memoir by German author and artist Wolfgang Herrndorf, who started documenting his life after being identified with a terminal mind tumour in 2010. The memoir, revealed posthumously in 2013, turned a literary phenomenon in Germany. The e book is an in depth, and infrequently very humorous, account of his ultimate years, crammed with hope and despair, panic and pleasure and serenity.
Hüller will play Herrendorf within the movie, her newest gender-swapped efficiency after her flip in Markus Schleinzer’s Rose, a task that gained her one of the best appearing honor in Berlin this 12 months.
“Ever since my first encounter with Wolfgang Herrndorf’s work, I’ve been unable to let go of his writing,” Hüller stated in an announcement. “His texts are directly stunning, unsettling, and comforting. To come across him as an individual by this movie: at a second when his life modified abruptly, appeared on the verge of falling aside, and when he was concurrently discovering his voice as a author earlier than it was tragically silenced, is each an incredible honour and a profound problem for me.”
Schrader, who along with Jan Schomburg is adapting Herrndorf’s e book for the display, known as the memoir “a solitary and intimate file of what it means to be alive. A person fights with phrases in opposition to his disappearance and, within the face of loss of life, turns into extra alive than ever earlier than.”
Komplizen Movie will produce Arbeit und Struktur with France’s Haut et Courtroom, their associate on Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann and Valeska Grisebach’s latest Cannes winner The Dreamed Journey, alongside Studiocanal and German public broadcaster ZDF.
Principal images is about to start in early 2027. Studiocanal is dealing with world gross sales on the mission and can launch the movie in Germany, France and Italy in 2028.
