09/04/2019 - The cast of this production being staged by S. Kapitány Film and sold by Films Boutique includes Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Josef Hader, Sergio Rubini and Jasmine Trinca

Actress Léa Seydoux and director Ildikó Enyedi

The first clapperboard slammed in Hamburg on Monday 8 April for The Story of My Wife [+see also:
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interview: Ildikó Enyedi
film profile], the sixth feature by Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi, following My 20th Century (Caméra d'Or at Cannes in 1989), The Magic Hunter and Tamas and Julie (in competition at Venice in 1994 and 1997), Simon the Magician (in competition at Locarno in 1999), and On Body and Soul [+see also:
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interview: Ildiko Enyedi
interview: Ildiko Enyedi
interview: Réka Tenki
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Standing out in the lead roles are France’s Léa Seydoux (Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2013 for Blue Is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
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interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
film profile], which also earned her, among others, a nod for the César Award for Best Actress in 2014, a prize that she was also nominated for the year before for her turn in Farewell My Queen [+see also:
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interview: Benoît Jacquot
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Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
film profile], It’s Only the End of the World [+see also:
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film profile] and Sister [+see also:
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interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile]; set to grace screens soon in Roubaix, a Light) and Dutch actor Gijs Naber (seen in Black Book [+see also:
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film profile], Golden Calf for Best Actor in 2014 for How To Avoid Everything [+see also:
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film profile], also giving a solid performance in Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle [+see also:
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film profile]). This duo will be flanked by France’s Louis Garrel (nominated for the César Award for Best Actor in 2018 for Redoubtable [+see also:
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
film profile] and the César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2015 and 2016 for Saint Laurent [+see also:
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Q&A: Bertrand Bonello
film profile] and My King [+see also:
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film profile], popular in the recent title A Faithful Man [+see also:
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interview: Louis Garrel
film profile]), Austria’s Josef Hader (who made a huge splash in Wild Mouse [+see also:
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interview: Josef Hader
interview: Josef Hader
film profile], nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actor in 2017 for Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe [+see also:
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interview: Maria Schrader
film profile]), and Italy’s Sergio Rubini (nominated for the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor in 1991, 1997 and 2017 for The Stuff of Dreams [+see also:
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film profile]) and Jasmine Trinca (nominated for the David di Donatello Award for Best Actress in 2013 for There Will Come a Day [+see also:
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interview: Giorgio Diritti
film profile], in 2014 for Honey [+see also:
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interview: Valeria Golino
interview: Valeria Golino
film profile] and in 2015 for You Can’t Save Yourself [+see also:
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making of
interview: Sergio Castellitto
film profile], after having got a nod for Best Supporting Actress in 2001, 2004 and 2006 for The Son’s Room [+see also:
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film profile], The Best of Youth [+see also:
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film profile] and The Caiman [+see also:
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interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile], respectively). 

The story, written by Idilko Enyedi and based on the novel of the same name by her fellow countryman Milan Füst (published in 1942), kicks off in a café, where Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet with a friend to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy…

Produced by Monika Mecs for Hungarian outfit S. Kapitány Film (a firm created specifically for this film and whose parent company is Inforg-M&M Film), The Story of My Wife is being co-produced by Germany’s Komplizen Films, France’s Pyramide Productions and Italy’s Moliwood Films, with backing from Eurimages, the Hungarian Film Fund, Arte, RAI Cinema and Creative Europe Media. The shoot will take place in Hamburg, Budapest and Malta, with Marcell Rév (Jupiter’s Moon [+see also:
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó
film profile], White God [+see also:
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó
film profile]) in charge of the cinematography. Mozinet will handle the Hungarian theatrical release on 20 September 2020, and Films Boutique is overseeing the international sales.

(Translated from French)