THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE FILM PROJECT - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
New York Times «Hauntingly beautiful» Financial Times «Profoundly moving» Washington Post «Brilliant» Newsday «As romantic as Doctor Zhivago»
BUDAPEST, PARIS AND NEW YORK
ROMANTIC, EPIC AND INSPIRING
LOVE AND DARKNESS AT THE EDGE OF WORLD WAR II
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE is a grand love story full of secrets and a tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war. A marriage tested by deceit and disaster, a family threatened with annihilation, bound by love, tradition and history. Suspense, survival, sacrifice: A haunting love story – an epic World War II saga.
Genre: Love Story, Family Drama and War Film in the likes of
THE ENGLISH PATIENT, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, SUNSHINE, THE PIANIST and DR. ZHIVAGO
Status: In Development
Amid War, Destinies Are Found and Lost
Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a passionate relationship with the letter's recipient - Claire Morgenstern, a Hungarian émigré with a shadowy past and a decade older than him - he becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his and his family’s history. Meanwhile, as his elder brother takes up medical studies in Italy and his younger brother leaves school for the stage, Europe’s unfolding tragedy sends each of their lives into terrifying uncertainty as Europe erupts in a cataclysm of war. Two families bound by the same destiny are tossed by the winds of war from 1937 until 1945, from 1956 and beyond, when the surviving family members are able to flee Communist Hungary for freedom and a new life in America.
CONTACT: Dan Ravasz - Producer - DANIEL FILM Lipowskystrasse 12a 81373 Munich - Germany +49(0)17665922719 [email protected]
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE FILM PROJECT - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
„Later he would tell her that their story began at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, the night before he left for Paris on the Western European Express...“
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Paris, Budapest („Paris of the East“) and Brooklyn, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to destroy it. The ‘Invisible Bridge’ is the universal bond that holds people together in the face of unspeakable difficulties and from which we find the collective strength to rise above atrocity. It is made up of the common values of respect, dignity and goodwill. A sweeping story that shows the true human foundation: our spirit and enduring love.
Director: Lajos Koltai is a Hungarian film director and cinematographer best known for his work with legendary Hungarian director István Szabó MEPHISTO, and Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 for his work on the film MALÈNA. Lajos Koltai received high praise as a director for his first feature film FATELESS, based on the novel by Nobel laureate Imre Kertész. His second feature film was EVENING, which was scripted by Susan Minot (Stealing Beauty) and Michael Cunningham (The Hours) starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave and Meryl Streep.
Producer: Dan Ravasz comes from a family with a long tradition in the film business, his father being an Academy Award nominated producer of „THE REVOLT OF JOB / JÓB LÁZADÁSA“ (Hungary). Dan started his career as a journalist and has worked on numerous documentaries for German and Hungarian television. THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE is his first feature film as a producer. Dan holds a Master in Media & Communication and Political Science from the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, and is a member of the American Film Institute (AFI).
Executive Producer: Mogens Raun started his career in the Financial Industry in 1986. He held various HR Management roles at Regional and Global level in Mars Inc, The Coca Cola Company, Novartis and Nestlé before joining Allianz Group in 2011. Mogens holds a Masters in Human Resource Leadership from Bocconi SDA & Rutgers University.
CONTACT: Dan Ravasz - Producer - DANIEL FILM Lipowskystrasse 12a 81373 Munich - Germany +49(0)17665922719 [email protected]