‘Krux’ Trailer: Toronto-Bound WWII Drama Captures True Story Of Disintegration Of Order In German Village

EXCLUSIVE: German director Tony Valh’s World War Two drama Krux debuts in Toronto followed by San Sebastian next month and Deadline can reveal a first trailer.

Inspired by true events, it tells the dark story of a small northeastern German village at the end of World War Two, when the Nazi regime gave its citizens the order to “leave nothing alive for the enemy to find”.

Most of the men are at the front. What remains is a handful of women, children, and the few men who were allowed to stay behind. Life still runs on its old rituals: school, church, weddings, work. The villagers still believe it will end well.  Then the river gives up bodies no one can name.  No one knows when the enemy will come, or what will happen when they do. Rumors fill the silence where facts should be. Out of that silence grows a fear larger than the enemy itself. 

The cast features rising German actress Jella Haase, who will also be in Toronto in Gentle Monster; Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Clemens Schick (Babylon Berlin), Lukas Miko, Martin Wuttke, Steffi Kühnert, Hans Uwe Bauer, Marlene Franzone, Phileas Heyblom and Hugo Goers.

The picture is lead produced by Martina Haubrich, Ewa Puszcyńska (The Zone of Interest, Fatherland) with co-producers Claudia Schröter, Peter Hartwig and associate producer Barbara Albert.

Vuelta company Global Constellation, which is handling sales, has recently sealed Brazil (Bellas Artes), adding to previously announced deals to France (UFO) and Benelux (distri7). Vuelta Germany will handle distribution in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Gutek prebought the film for Poland.