NEW WW2 MOVIES: TOM FELTON, DIANA RIGG, IAN HART TAKING HITLER TO STALIN IN BURIAL, GAUMONT OPTIONS DRESSED FOR WAR ON VOGUE WARTIME EDITOR

'BURIAL' WW2 FILM

Tom Felton will lead the Burial cast

TAKING HITLER TO STALIN

Among the projects that will be offered to buyers at Cannes virtual market this month is WW2 story BURIAL which will have Tom Felton, Ian Hart and Diana Rigg in the cast alongside Niamh Algar and Tom Glynn Carney.  Set in the last days of war it tells the fictional story of a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva (Niamh Algar), who are tasked with trafficking Hitler’s discovered remains back to Stalin in Moscow. Along the way, the unit is attacked by murderous German ‘Wehrwolf’ partisans and picked off one by one. Vasilyeva and her fellow survivors must make a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of their attackers and be buried forever to hide the truth.

'DRESSED FOR WAR'

ON VOGUE'S WARTIME EDITOR

Dressed for War will be based on Julie Summers' book

Speaking of Second World War, Deadline reports today that Gaumont UK has bought movie rights on  historian Julie Summers’ biography on wartime Vogue editor Audrey Withers, titled DRESSED FOR WAR: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue Editor Extraordinaire From The Blitz To The Swinging Sixties. Vogue itself will be included in the work on this sweeping story about how Withers helped pave the way for the sexual revolution of the 1960s! The film itself will be set in 1940s London and will follow audrey Withers as she aims to transform an upper-class fashion journal into an essential lifeline for women of all backgrounds.