Four Suhrkamp Books to Hit the Screens in 2024
Filming is underway on feature adaptations of Too Many Men by Lily Brett, Max Frisch’s I’m not Stiller, The Investigation by Peter Weiss, and The Sound of Family by Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen, with the projects expected to hit the screens in 2024.
Lily Brett’s best-selling novel Too Many Men will be released under the title Iron Box. Julia von Heinz is directing the film, and she also wrote the screenplay together with John Quester. The leading roles of Ruth and Edek will be played by Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry. Shooting began in February of 2023, and the project is now in post-production. Too Many Men is about a Jewish father and daughter who go on a trip Poland, the site of Edek’s birth, to trace their family history. With a surprising amount of humour, they explore the intergenerational trauma running through their family as they visit Warsaw, Lódz and Auschwitz.
In October 2023, filming got underway in Switzerland on an adaptation of Max Frisch’s classic I’m Not Stiller. German actors Albrecht Schuch and Paula Beer are cast in the main roles of James Larkin White and Julika Stiller. Director Stefan Haupt worked on the screenplay with Alex Buresch. The film is being shot on location in Davos, Zurich and Munich, with shooting set to wrap up in mid-December. Max Frisch’s I’m Not Stiller is narrated by a man travelling with an American passport under the name of James Larkin White, who is arrested and accused of being the missing Swiss sculptor Anatol Ludwig Stiller. The novel marked Frisch’s breakthrough as a writer.
Peter Weiss’s documentary play The Investigation is likewise being turned into a feature film. Shooting began in January 2023, and the production company Leonine Studios is working towards a theatrical release on 25 January 2024. After four weeks of rehearsals, a 60-person ensemble cast spent five days performing the piece for the camera. The cast includes Rainer Bock, Bernhard Schütz and Clemens Schick. The film is being directed by RP Kahl. The Investigation is based on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials that took place between December 1963 and August 1965.
Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen’s book The Sound of Family is being adapted by the production company curate films, with the duo Greg & Jacob in charge of the direction. In The Sound of Family, the authors trace the development of the Berlin club and techno scene after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which grew to become a major cultural phenomenon, attracting people from all over the world.
For foreign rights inquiries about I''m Not Stiller, The Investigation, or The Sound of Family, please contact the rights manager for your region.
Lily Brett’s best-selling novel Too Many Men will be released under the title Iron Box. Julia von Heinz is directing the film, and she also wrote the screenplay together with John Quester. The leading roles of Ruth and Edek will be played by Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry. Shooting began in February of 2023, and the project is now in post-production. Too Many Men is about a Jewish father and daughter who go on a trip Poland, the site of Edek’s birth, to trace their family history. With a surprising amount of humour, they explore the intergenerational trauma running through their family as they visit Warsaw, Lódz and Auschwitz.
In October 2023, filming got underway in Switzerland on an adaptation of Max Frisch’s classic I’m Not Stiller. German actors Albrecht Schuch and Paula Beer are cast in the main roles of James Larkin White and Julika Stiller. Director Stefan Haupt worked on the screenplay with Alex Buresch. The film is being shot on location in Davos, Zurich and Munich, with shooting set to wrap up in mid-December. Max Frisch’s I’m Not Stiller is narrated by a man travelling with an American passport under the name of James Larkin White, who is arrested and accused of being the missing Swiss sculptor Anatol Ludwig Stiller. The novel marked Frisch’s breakthrough as a writer.
Peter Weiss’s documentary play The Investigation is likewise being turned into a feature film. Shooting began in January 2023, and the production company Leonine Studios is working towards a theatrical release on 25 January 2024. After four weeks of rehearsals, a 60-person ensemble cast spent five days performing the piece for the camera. The cast includes Rainer Bock, Bernhard Schütz and Clemens Schick. The film is being directed by RP Kahl. The Investigation is based on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials that took place between December 1963 and August 1965.
Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen’s book The Sound of Family is being adapted by the production company curate films, with the duo Greg & Jacob in charge of the direction. In The Sound of Family, the authors trace the development of the Berlin club and techno scene after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which grew to become a major cultural phenomenon, attracting people from all over the world.
For foreign rights inquiries about I''m Not Stiller, The Investigation, or The Sound of Family, please contact the rights manager for your region.