CANNES -- Bavaria Media Television hit the ground running at MIPTV Monday closing a day-one sale of big-budget docudrama Speer and Hitler -- The Devil's Architect to French pay-TV company Canal Plus. The three-part miniseries, from award-winning director Heinrich Breloer (The Manns), reassesses the role of Albert Speer, who besides designing many of the Third Reich's buildings was also Hitler's close friend and minister for war production. Sebastian Koch plays Speer, while Hitler is portrayed by Tobias Moretti, who was in Cannes for a preview screening of 30 minutes of footage from the first episode. Budgeted at 12 million, The Devil's Architect has already been sold to BBC1 in the United Kingdom and to a slew of channels in Eastern and Central Europe. The MIPTV deal was signed by Canal Plus COO Rodolphe Belmer and Bavaria Media TV chief Oliver Schuendler.
- 4/12/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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