Great cinema

Filming in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein for the international cinema filmThe Aftermath by James Kent with Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke and Alexander Skarsgård in the leading roles have been finalised.

After an initial block of filming in Prague, the team moved to Germany at the beginning of February for 20 days of filming and found the perfect location for the interior shots of the film in Tralau Castle in the municipality of Travenbrück in southern Schleswig-Holstein.The Aftermath found. The Hamburg Location Scouts Nic Diedrich and Benjamin Ackermann were responsible for finding the motifs. The film is a great historical melodrama set in Hamburg in the immediate post-war period: an Englishwoman (Keira Knightley) follows her husband, a British occupying officer (Jason Clarke), to the Hanseatic city. The two move into a luxurious, annexed villa on the Elbchaussee, which they continue to share with the widowed German owner (Alexander Skarsgård). All three are confronted with their respective histories in a way that once again changes their lives forever. In addition to the international stars, Jannik Schümann, Anna Schimrigk, Rosa Enskat and Flora Li Thiemann were among those in front of Franz Lustig's camera. "We are delighted that we were able to realise such an exciting cinema film with such a high-calibre cast in our region. Malte Grunert, an internationally experienced Executive Producer who has already directed Anton Corbijn's cinema film A Most wanted ManandLand of Mine co-produced by Martin Zandvliet," says FFHSH CEO Maria Köpf. Other creatives involved from the north included Line Producer Jan Brandt, Head Lighting Designer Florian Kronberger and Hair & Make Up Artist Barbara Kreuzer. The VFX work was carried out byThe Post Republic together with the sister companyAutomatic based in London. The script forThe Aftermath is based on Rhidian Brook's novel of the same name, which was published in Germany under the title "Niemandsland". The rights to the film adaptation are held byFox Searchlight Pictures. Other production companies are the HamburgAmusement Park Film (Malte Grunert),Scott Free Pictures (Jack Arbuthnott) - the British production company of Director and Executive Producer Ridley Scott - andBBC Films. Twentieth Century Fox will release the film in cinemas worldwide.