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Written and Directed by Jeremy Podeswa Produced by Robert Lantos Based Upon the Novel by Anne Michaels Runtime: 105 Minutes to D Written and Directed by Jeremy Podeswa Produced by Robert Lantos Based upon the novel by Anne Michaels Media Contacts: New York Agency: Los Angeles Agency: IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films Donna Daniels Lisa Danna New York: Amy Johnson Melody Korenbrot Liza Burnett Fefferman Donna Daniels PR Block-Korenbrot, Inc. Jeff Griffith-Perham 20 West 22nd St., Suite 1410 North Market Building Samuel Goldwyn Films New York, NY 1010 110 S. Fairfax Ave., #310 1133 Broadway – Suite 926 T: 347.254.7054 Los Angeles, CA 90036 New York, NY 10010 [email protected] T: 323.634.7001 T: 212.367.9435 [email protected] [email protected] F: 212.367.0853 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] LA: Mimi Guethe T: 310.860.3100 F: 310.860.3198 [email protected] Runtime: 105 minutes To download press notes and photography, please visit: www.press.samuelgoldwynfilms.com USER NAME: press LOG IN: golden! 1 FUGITIVE PIECES THE CAST Jakob Stephen Dillane Athos Rade Sherbedgia Alex Rosamund Pike Michaela Ayelet Zurer Jakob (young) Robbie Kay Ben Ed Stoppard Naomi Rachelle Lefevre Bella Nina Dobrev Mrs. Serenou Themis Bazaka Jozef Diego Matamoros Sara Sarah Orenstein Irena Larissa Laskin Maurice Daniel Kash Ioannis Yorgos Karamichos Allegra Danae Skiadi 2 FUGITIVE PIECES ABOUT THE STORY A powerful and unforgettably lyrical film about love, loss and redemption, FUGITIVE PIECES tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is transformed by his childhood experiences during WWII. The film is based on the beloved and best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. Jakob’s story (Robbie Kay) begins in Poland in 1942, when he is nine years old. Nazi soldiers have murdered his parents and abducted his teenage sister, Bella. Traumatized by this horrific event, Jakob sneaks out of his hiding place and struggles to survive. He is found by Athos Roussos (Rade Sherbedgia), a Greek archaeologist working at a Polish dig site in Biskupin. Moved by the child’s plight, Athos boldly smuggles Jakob out of Poland and hides him in his home on the island of Zakynthos in Greece, also occupied by the Germans. Jakob spends the last years of the Occupation in Athos’ tender care. After the war, Athos and Jakob immigrate to Canada, where Athos has accepted a teaching position with a University. As he matures, Jakob (now played by Stephen Dillane) begins a new life, studying, writing, and eventually falling in love with Alex (Rosamund Pike), a beautiful young woman. Yet he remains haunted by his parents' death and the question of his sister's fate. This terrible burden makes it impossible for him to live in the moment or to accept love when it is offered to him. Writing offers some relief, but it is not until he meets Michaela (Ayelet Zurer), a gentle soul who truly understands -- and accepts -- his pain, that Jakob allows himself to join the living. The lessons he learns become a legacy to Ben (Ed Stoppard), a child of survivors whose life intersects with Jakob’s in meaningful ways. Written and directed by Jeremy Podeswa and produced by Robert Lantos, FUGITIVE PIECES is a Canada/Greece co-production between Canada’s Serendipity Point Films, Athens-based Cinegram S.A. and Strada Productions. The film is co-produced by Sandra Cunningham, Dionyssis Samiotis and Takis Veremis. The film is financed by Serendipity Point Films, Telefilm Canada, Astral Media, Corus Entertainment, The Harold Greenberg Fund and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. 3 FUGITIVE PIECES SHORT SYNOPSIS FUGITIVE PIECES is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and redemption. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past. FUGITIVE PIECES is based on the beloved best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels. Written and directed by Jeremy Podeswa and produced by Robert Lantos, FUGITIVE PIECES is a Canada/Greece co-production between Canada’s Serendipity Point Films, Athens-based Cinegram S.A. and Strada Productions. The film is co-produced by Sandra Cunningham, Dionyssis Samiotis and Takis Veremis. The film is financed by Serendipity Point Films, Telefilm Canada, Astral Media, Corus Entertainment, The Harold Greenberg Fund and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. 4 FUGITIVE PIECES ABOUT THE PRODUCTION “I did not witness the most important events of my life,” writes Jakob Beer, the writer and WWII survivor who is the central character in Canadian poet Anne Michaels’ critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling novel, Fugitive Pieces. Orphaned during WWII and propelled to an unforeseen destiny, Beer struggles mightily with the memory of his family’s death, simultaneously tormented and transformed by haunting recollections of his family killed during the war. His story, a powerful personal history and a poetic tale of love, loss, and redemption, is beautifully brought to life in FUGITIVE PIECES, a film based on Michaels’ contemporary classic. Adapted for the screen and directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who was lauded for his previous films THE FIVE SENSES and ECLIPSE, FUGITIVE PIECES is an eloquent and provocative drama that reaffirms the importance of compassion in an often inhumane world. The film’s talented ensemble cast includes Stephen Dillane (THE HOURS, WELCOME TO SARAJEVO), Rade Sherbedgia (BEFORE THE RAIN, EYES WIDE SHUT), Rosamund Pike (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE) and Ayelet Zurer (MUNICH). FUGITIVE PIECES was produced by Robert Lantos, who recently enjoyed great critical and commercial success with his award-winning production, BEING JULIA. The novel Fugitive Pieces was published in 1996. Universally acclaimed, it won England’s prestigious Orange Prize, Ontario’s Trillium Award, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Award, among others. It was also short-listed for Canada’s Giller Prize. In Canada, Fugitive Pieces was on the national bestsellers’ list for more than two years and the novel has been published in thirty countries. Although many producers approached author Anne Michaels about dramatizing her novel, she was reluctant to give her approval. “I waited a long time before handing it over to anyone to do as a film because I believed that whoever represented this on screen would have to have a deep understanding of the sanctity of it,” she explains. Michaels’ story is complex, poetic, and metaphoric, challenging qualities to preserve in a screen adaptation. Jeremy Podeswa read the novel when it was first published and was deeply affected by it. “I was incredibly moved by the character’s story, the tragedy in his childhood that haunts him and the woman who transforms his life in adulthood. FUGITIVE PIECES has profound things to say about trauma, memory and the redemptive power of love. I thought it would make an incredible movie,” he recalls. The story stayed with him and after a few years and several directing projects, including THE FIVE SENSES, Podeswa decided to pursue the project. “A Canadian company had the rights to the novel, and I approached them about writing and directing it. They saw THE FIVE SENSES, which had just premiered at Cannes, and liked it, as did the author Anne Michaels, and we decided to go ahead with the film adaptation.” Michaels was impressed by the fact that Podeswa, whose father is a Holocaust survivor, felt a strong connection to the material. “I knew that Jeremy had a personal stake in the telling of the story and that, in the end, is 5 what moved me,” says Michaels. “He understood that the book was not only about the relationship between memory and history and the relationship between men and women, but the relationship between men and men,” she adds. Podeswa wanted to capture the essence of the novel as well as its poetry. “It wasn’t about being extremely literal or having everything that was in the book in the movie. But from the beginning, I knew we had to use the specific language of the book, its most distinctive quality. Narration was, in my opinion, essential. Finding an interesting and unexpected way to use the narration became the challenge,” Podeswa explains. “The book deals with narrative in a very complex way and I felt the movie needed to mirror that,” he adds. “The most interesting way to tell the story would be to reflect these “fugitive pieces” by weaving in and out of different periods.” Both the novel and movie are largely about memory, history and perception. For Podeswa, it was important that the past and the present be represented on equal terms, which meant that Jakob should live equally in the past and in the present. “The young Jakob and the adult Jakob coexist at the same time, so we see him as a boy and we see him as an adult, living in two time periods simultaneously,” Podeswa explains. “As pure structural form, it really reflects a large part of the theme of the story—that history is in us. Everything that came before us is part of who we are. We are the repository of our family’s histories, of our culture’s history, and our country’s history. We embody that. The past and the present live within us.” Like Podeswa, producer Robert Lantos was captivated by the novel when he experienced it for the first time. Having produced SUNSHINE, another epic story about the perseverance of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity, Lantos was not daunted by the challenge of dramatizing Michaels’ intricate and emotionally-charged material.
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