Claes Bang, Valerie Pachner Drama ‘I Is Another’ Sells Wide Ahead of AFM

Beta Cinema has closed a raft of international sales for I Is Another, Felix Randau’s historical drama starring Claes Bang and Valerie Pachner, ahead of the American Film Market.

ARP Selection acquired all rights for France, with further deals signed with Youplanet Pictures for Spain, Angel Films for Scandinavia, Big Tree Entertainment for India and Palace Films for Australia and New Zealand. Vertigo Media took Hungary, Beta Film acquired Bulgaria and Red Cape picked up Israel.

The deals were unveiled Monday on the eve of AFM, following the film’s world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande this summer.

Based on true events, I Is Another stars Bang as Felix Kersten, massage therapist to SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Said to have helped secure the release of thousands of concentration camp prisoners, Kersten is traveling to Oslo in the hope of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Aboard the night train, however, he faces an interview with Hedda (Pachner), a journalist convinced he is an impostor. Their encounter becomes a contest over memory, truth and the version of his life Kersten wants the world to believe.

Port-au-Prince Pictures will release the film in Germany in early 2027. ARP Selection is introducing it to French audiences at the Augenblick Film Festival ahead of a nationwide theatrical release next year.

Randau (Iceman, Northern Star) wrote and directed the film, which was produced by Ostlicht Filmproduktion in co-production with Veit Heiduschka’s Wega Film. The cast also includes Susanne Wuest, Timocin Ziegler and Martin Müller, with Sebastian Thaler serving as director of photography.

Beta Cinema will hold an AFM screening on Nov. 11 at 9 a.m. at AMC Century City 3. The American Film Market runs Nov. 10-15.