Bille August's Night Train to Lisbon casts Jeremy Irons in adaptation of Pascal Mercier's bestselling novel
The film is being co-produced by Studio Hamburg Production and Zurich-based C-Films. Night Train to Lisbon tells of a Swiss professor of classical languages who has a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman. He then quits his job and heads off to Lisbon hoping to discover the fate of a certain author, a doctor and poet who fought against Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, reports Variety.
Eurimages has put in around $2.9 million into Night Train to Lisbon so far, and there is also federal and regional funding in Germany which includes $427,000 from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Irons was just in Neil Jordan's The Borgias TV series and is currently shooting The Words with Bradley Cooper, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Ben Barnes, Dennis Quaid, John Hannah and J.K. Simmons. That film is written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal.