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The company works with director Bettina Oberli for the second time.

German sales company The Match Factory has boarded My Wonderful Wanda, the upcoming feature from Swiss director Bettina Oberli.

Working with Oberli for the second time after 2009’s The Murder Farm, The Match Factory will conduct sales to the international industry at this week’s European Film Market. The film is scheduled for an April 2020 premiere.

Lukas Hobi and Reto Schaerli produce for Zodiac Pictures, in co-production with Srf, Srg Ssr and Teleclub.

The film centres on Wanda, a Polish carer for an elderly man in his lakeside villa.

Assessing the merits of Claudio Fäh's Viking odyssey is a tricky task because of what it represents in the panorama of Swiss genre films. With an international cast, and production set in South Africa, Northmen - A Viking Saga is one of the most significant efforts of its kind. Of course, genre films do exist in Switzerland but they are rather underground. The quite impressive quantity of short films dealing with horror, fantasy or science fiction seldom get released outside the country, while feature films remain discreet endeavors, such as Michael Steiner's Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010) and Das Missen Massaker (2012), Bettina Oberli's Tannöd - The Murder Farm (2009), Mathieu Seiler's Der Ausflug (2012), Ivan Engler's Cargo (2009) or Olivier Beguin's Chimères (2013)....

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The German sales co. known for providing the fest circuit and art-house plexes with subtitled stuff from around the globe will set fire to the Director's Fortnight section this year. If I'm counting right, The Match Factory supply the fest with a five titles including The Light Thief (see pic above), The City Below, the including the much discussed on this site Cam Archer's sophomore feature, and they nabbed a Main Comp spot for one of the most celebrated directors of the decade in Apichatpong Weerasethakul latest – a sort of “ghost” story. Everything Will Be Fine (Alting Bliver Godt Igen) by Christoffer Boe - Completed Shit Year by Cam Archer - Completed The City Below (Unter Dir Die Stadt) by Christoph HOCHHÄUSLER - Completed The Light Thief by Aktan Arym Kubat - Completed Uncle Boonmee Who Nn Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chaat) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul -...

Apparently this film, which is based on the novel by Andrea Maria Schenkel, is another take on the same gruesome murder of an entire family in Hinter Kaifeck, which I didn't care for but our own Hal MacDermot enjoyed. While seemingly a horror, it's really a thriller, and considering the small output of genre films coming out of Germany I'm wondering they've chosen to cover this same subject twice now. Was this re-awakened in the nations consciousness recently?

Some years after the brutal murder of a family on the isolated farm Tannöd Kathrin returns to the place of her childhood. The murderer has still not been found and Kathrin deeper dives into the dark secrets of the village, - until she realizes that the case has much more to do with her, when her love is ...

Trailer after the break.

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