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‘Oleg’ Helmer Juris Kursietis on His Upper Class Satire ‘The Exalted,’ Boarded by B-Rated International Ahead of Tallinn (EXCLUSIVE)
Oscar-nominated editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis and DOP Bogumil Godfreijów are credited on the Latvian/Estonian/Greek co-production.
The satire about cultural clashes between Eastern and Western Europe, seen through the prism of an upper-class couple, has just been acquired by newly launched French sales outfit B-Rated International, outside the co-producing countries Estonia, Latvia, and Greece. Next to the lead actors Johanna Wokalek (“Spy City,” “The Baader Meinhof Complex”) and Juris Žagars (“Troubled Minds,” “The Dark Deer”), the international cast takes in Judith Hofmann (“The Innocent”), Hanna Hilsdorf (“In the Fade,” “The Empress”), Yorgos Pirpassopoulos (“Chevalier”) and Pekka Strang (“Tom of Finland”). Kursietis, who shares the writing credit with his wife and “Oleg” co-writer Liga Celma-Kursiete, says he first had the idea for the pic about six or seven years ago, when a series of high-profile corruption scandals made headlines in Latvia, involving stately-run corporations.
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