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British author Philip Kerr has come on board to script The Poison Kitchen for Constantin Film. Robert Schwentke is already attached to direct the film, which is based on a chapter from the 1998 Ron Rosenbaum book Explaining Hitler, and chronicles the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1920s as told through the eyes of journalists at The Munich Post. That paper published articles against the Nazis and tried to expose them as organized criminals. The journalists so got under the Nazis’ skin that Hitler referred to them as “The Poison Kitchen” for cooking up lies about him. Kerr’s work includes the Bernie Gunther thriller novels, which include March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem, as well as many children’s books penned under the name P.B. Kerr. Constantin’s Robert Kulzer and Margo Klewans will produce and Martin Moszkowicz will be exec producer on the movie. Kerr is repped by CAA and A.P. Watt.
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It can’t be any worse than their Three Musketeers.
I love these movies . And it never ceases to amaze me how these nationalistic psychopaths get away with their acts or their followers justify the murderous horror they create . From memory , I’ve read something of this story and might not be mistaken in saying that the journalists were eventually assassinated and others sent to the death camps .
How many writers have they thrown at this project now? At least a couple dozen? This is getting to be the next U.S.S. Indianapolis!
Kerr’s mystery novels set prior, during, and post WWII make for good reading and possibly films themselves. Worth looking into.
Deadline itself broke the news earlier this year that HBO was involved in Berlin Noir discussions. I’d really prefer HBO to a feature film, but haven’t heard anything about it since the Deadline article.
The Nazi Party of the 1920s is not an overexposed topic. Sounds worthwhile!
You might enjoy a German film called Sass. It’s the ‘true’ story of two brothers of the same name, very successful gangsters in 1920s Berlin, also accepted into high society, and later their run-ins with what was to become a far larger and nastier gang, the NSDAP. Not strictly a Nazi film, it’s very entertaining, well acted, looks great and has a real feel for the period.