Claes Bang Heinrich Himmler Masseur Drama ‘I Is Another’ Sells Wide For Beta Cinema – AFM

EXCLUSIVE: Felix Randau’s post-World War Two drama I Is Another, starring Claes Bang as Heinrich Himmler’s real-life controversial massage therapist Felix Kersten, has sold to a raft of territories in the wake of its Locarno Piazza Grande world premiere over the summer.

Sales agent Beta Cinema, which will be screening the film at the AFM, is reporting all rights deals to France (ARP Selection), Spain (Youplanet Pictures), Scandinavia (Angel Films), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Bulgaria (Beta Film), Israel (Red Cape) and to Australia & New Zealand (Palace Films).

Berlin-based Port-au-Prince Pictures (The Secret Agent, System Crasher) is set to release the film in Germany in early 2027.

ARP Selection, the upcoming slate of which also includes Sundance breakout Josephine and Belgian World War Two resistance drama Le Faux Soir, is currently introducing the I Is Another to French audiences at the Augenblick Film Festival, ahead of a theatrical release in 2027.

Randau (Iceman), who also wrote the screenplay, spent years researching the extraordinary story of Kersten, who claimed to have used his influence over SS founder and Holocaust architect Himmler to save thousands of people caught in the crosshairs of the Nazi regime.

Bang is joined in the cast by Valerie Pachner (A Hidden Life) in the role of investigative journalist Hedda, who ambushes Kersten on the night train to Oslo as he travels with his wife to the Norwegian Nobel Institute in the expectation that he will receive its coveted peace prize.

Hedda, who is hiding secrets of her own, has doubts about Kersten’s accounts of his conduct during World War Two, and is determined to get to the bottom of the truth. A night long psychological game of cat and mouse ensues.

I Is Another is produced by ostlicht filmproduktion (The Auschwitz Report) in co-production with Veit Heiduschkas Wega Film (The White Ribbon).

Sebastian Thaler (Transatlantic) serves as director of photography. The cast also includes Susanne Wuest (Sound of Falling), Timocin Ziegler (Learning to Die) and Martin Müller (The Universal Theory).