CANNES, France, May 13 (UPI) — David Leveaux is to direct the big-screen adaptation of Alan Judd’s novel The Kaiser’s Last Kiss, starring Lily James and Christopher Plummer.
Written by Simon Burke, the movie is an Egoli Tossell Film and Ostar Enterprises production. Judy Tossell and Lou Pitt are producing and Bill Haber and Phil Geier are executive producing. Lotus Entertainment will introduce the project to foreign buyers starting at the Cannes film festival.
“In David Leveaux, our film has found the perfect director to wring every last ounce of drama from this very special script,” Judy Tossell said in a statement. “Audiences will rarely have seen a character quite like the Kaiser, brought to life by one of cinema’s great treasures Christopher Plummer — combined with the sensational Lily James. We look forward to taking this passionate spy thriller to Cannes and beyond.”
Press notes on the film explained, “Notions of duty and love of country are tested against the power of love itself.
“The 1940 invasion of Holland brings the Nazis face to face with their former monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm, who was exiled to the Netherlands in 1917,” the synopsis said. “In an effort to thwart the Nazis, the Dutch resistance work covertly with Winston Churchill in inserting an agent into the kaiser’s household. A lethally dangerous love affair ignites between a German officer and a young Jewish Dutch woman with consequences that neither they nor the kaiser himself could have foreseen. As the Nazis race to identify and eliminate the agent to block the potentially disastrous defection of their former emperor to England, the threads of history conspire with the recklessness of the heart to dumbfound them.”
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