IFC Spares ‘Five Minutes’ for Hirschbiegel

IFC Films have nabbed Oliver Hirschbiegel‘s Five Minutes Of Heaven and are adding it to their IFC In Theatres VOD day-and-date platform this coming month of August. Previously Hirschbiegel had directed the breakout international mind-f**k hit called Das Experiment, quickly followed that up with Hitler’s demise in Downfall and his first Hollywood project (The Invasion) for Warner Bros. met an unfortunate tsunami of harsh criticism and zero interest from the movie-going public. This smaller in scale drama features Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt and Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and was shown at Sundance where it picked up the World Cinema Director Award but failed to light a fire for domestic distribution rights.

Based on Guy Hibbert’s screenplay about two men from the same town in Northern Ireland who find themselves on different sides of the Irish political divide. The film traces the lives of two men one a murderer, the other the brother of the man he killed.

The German director who should be working on the book to screen project called Angel Face as his next project. The novel written by Andreas Ulrich is about a real-life Mafia hitman. This project with reunite the director with Moritz Bleibtreu. Here’s a brief clip.: