Tony Leung
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Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is ready to star in Silent Good friend, an upcoming movie from Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi.
The film is Enyedi’s follow-up to the 2021 movie The Story of My Spouse which competed at Cannes, and On Physique and Soul, the 2017 characteristic that was nominated for an Oscar.
Silent Good friend is ready within the botanical backyard of Marburg, a medieval college city in Germany, and tells three tales related to a tree over a interval of greater than 100 years, based on Selection.
Penned by Enyedi, the movie sheds gentle on the unstable nature of so-called actuality, displaying the unconventional shifts in human notion of vegetation, animals and people.
Leung, the star of internationally acclaimed movies akin to In The Temper For Love, 2046, Glad Collectively and Chungking Specific, will characteristic as the primary lead within the movie’s third section.
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The actor will essay the position of a famend neuroscientist travelling from his hometown of Hong Kong to the Marburg School.
“The entire storyline of his episode is outlined by these private sensibilities I may solely guess behind the sensible actor. I used to be completely humbled that from the primary learn of the script he turned such a nice accomplice within the considering not nearly his position however about the entire venture,” Enyedi stated.
Silent Good friend is being produced by the German banner Pandora Movie together with co-producers — Monika Mecs of Inform M and M, Nicolas Elghozi at Galatee Movies and Meng Xie at Rediance. The movie will begin capturing throughout a number of seasons beginning in April 2024.