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Beta Film, Robert Lantos Epic ‘Rise of the Raven’ Set to Premiere at Mipcom Cannes, Drops Teaser (EXCLUSIVE)
The 10-part series climaxes in the bloody, brutal Battle of Belgrade of 1456 which changed the course of European history.
Beta Film has shared in exclusivity with Variety a first teaser to the series, which is a bracing introduction to the scale and ambition of “Rise of the Raven’s” production values, as well as the brutality of its battles scenes as it tells in an 10-part epic the extraordinary real-life feat of Hungarian army commander Janos Hunyadi, played by discovery Gellért L. Kádár, who turned back the tide of the Ottoman Empire’s seemingly unstoppable advance into Europe. Lantos, Kadar, Vivien Rudjer, who plays his Hunyadi’s wife, the redoubtable Erzsébet, and Franciska Törocskik, his first love Mara, given as a gift to Ottoman Sultan Murad by her father in an effort to appease the invaders, will attend the Mipcom world premiere. Also in present will be further key cast Mariann Hermányi (“Shadow and Bone”), Ernõ Fekete (“Son of Saul”), Elena Rusconi (“6 Underground”) and directors Robert Dornhelm (“Children of Theatre Street,” “Vienna Blood,” “Maria Theresa,” “War and Peace”), Orsi Nagypal (“The Deal,” The CW’s “The Outpost”), Attila Szász (“Tall Tales,” “Eternal Winter”), and showrunner Balázs Lengyel (HBO’s “Golden Life”).
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