Project Detail

The Aspern Papers

Synopsis

Set in Venice in 1885, Morton Vint, an ambiguous young writer fascinated by iconic romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern (now deceased), strives to get his hands on the letters Aspern wrote to his beautiful mistress, Juliana Bordereau. Now, decades later, Juliana lives in a Venetian palazzo with her niece, whom she dominates and Morton will come to seduce. But do these letters really exist and what scandalous information about Juliana and Aspern will they bring to the surface?
Based on the Henry James novella 'The Aspern Papers'.

Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Director: Julien Landais 1st Feature
Producer: Gabriela Bacher, Julien Landais
Executive Producer: James Ivory, Charles S. Cohen, Joely Richardson, Francois Sarkozy, Christian Angermayer, Klemens Hallmann
Editor: Hansjörg Weißbrich
Screenwriter: Jean Pavas (script), Julien Landais (script), Hannah Bhuiya (script), Henry James (novella)
Director of Photography: Philippe Guilbert
Production Designer: Livia Borgognoni
Composer: Original Music and Score: Vincent Carlo
Principal cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jon Kortajarena, Poppy Delevingne

Genre

Literary Adaptation Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Germany coproduction

A Summerstorm Entertainment (DE), Princeps Films (UK) production, co-produced with Umedia (BE), in association with Cohen Media Group (US), Film House Germany (DE), Bondit (SU)

Princeps Films

Julien Landais
219 Chamberlayne Road
London
NW10 3NX

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Sales Company

ARRI Media International

Tuerkenstrasse 89
80799 Munich
Germany

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