A seasoned Academy Award winner to adapt a Nobel Prize-winning author can only be an interesting recipe: last month, Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky (whom we have to thank for Anatomy and Anatomy 2 as well as All the Queen's Men and The Counterfeiters [+lire aussi :
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The story is set in the dark Middle Ages. Goldmund, an unruly young man sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother after she abandons them, meets Narcissus, a gifted young scholar and introverted novice. The former, as passionate and impulsive as the latter is devoted to prayer and meditation, soon realises that he could never become a monk and runs away to live a picaresque wanderer’s life, full of amorous and artistic adventures which lead him to discover the extremes of both ecstasy and pain. After several years, the two friends meet again... 

Narcissus and Goldmund, scripted by the director in conjunction with Robert Gold, and lensed by Benedict Neuenfels (who has already collaborated with Ruzowitzky and was recently acclaimed for his work on Styx [+lire aussi :
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The film is being produced by German outfits Tempest Film and Mythos Film as well as Lotus-Film in Austria, in co-production with Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion, with the support of the German Film Board (FFA), the Federal Ministry of Culture (BKM), Austrian pubcaster ORF, and various regional and local funds from both countries.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Deutschland will release it in Germany on 2 January 2020, and the movie will hit Austrian screens the following day. The international sales of Narcissus and Goldmund are managed by Beta Cinema.

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