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‘Oppenheimer’ Star Matthias Schweighöfer Teams With German Director Erik Schmitt For ‘The Life Of Wishes’


The 'Valkyrie' actor will team with German director Erik Schmitt for a big screen adaptation of Thomas Glavanic's novel Das Leben Der Wuensche.

Fabian Gasmia of Seven Elephants, who most recently produced Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry starrer Treasure, will co-produce the project with Stefan Gärtner of SevenPictures Film. Schweighöfer recently portrayed German physicist Werner Heisenberg, the principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program of World War II, in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. He has previously starred in projects such as Valkyrie, with Tom Cruise and Kenneth Branagh, Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead for Netflix and Sally El Hosaini-directed pic The Swimmers.

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