RUSSIA IS BOMBING NAZI BERLIN IN WW2 EPIC ADVENTURE WINGS OVER BERLIN! MELCHIOR THE APOTHECARY MEDIEVAL MOVIE IS ESTONIA'S MOST EXPENSIVE EVER

  WINGS OVER BERLIN  

A WW2 HEROIC STORY

Since Hollywood is sleeping currently, your trusted spy is, as usual, taking you on a trip around the world to see new productions from all corners of the globe,

Wings over Berlin aired this April in Russia

so after informing you about the new projects from Denmark, Hungary and Australia earlier this week, we are today moving to the Eastern Europe with two new historical movies. First one is coming from Russia celebrating their brave, heroic past. WINGS OVER BERLIN (Крылья над Берлином) already flew through their cinemas earlier this April coming from their celebrated director Konstantin Buslov whom we mentioned last year here as the helmer of another World War II movie Kalashnikov about the inventor of their famous riffle which, invented to spread death among the enemy, actually saved many lives. 

 

WINGS OVER BERLIN

starring Evgeniy Antropov, Aleksandr Metyolkin and Sergei Puskepalis, is a touching war romance and adventure bringing the story of the feat of the pilots of the 1st mine torpedo aviation regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force, headed by Colonel Preobrazhensky (Maksim Bityukov). They had the most difficult combat mission - to inflict the first bombing strikes on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany.

 

 MELCHIOR THE APOTHECARY 

ESTONIA'S MOST EXPENSIVE HISTORICAL FILM EVER

Moving up North to neighbouring Estonia, we have their most expensive historical movie ever, and also the most ambitious one as it has been envisioned

Melchior also aired in cinemas this April

as a trilogy to be released from April till late summer: MELCHIOR THE APOTHECARY a medieval drama based on a seven book series by Estonian writer Indrek Hargla! Directed by Elmo Nuganen, this medieval crime thriller has the story revolving around a Tallinn pharmacist who has to uncover the secret behind a terrible wave of murders that threatens to wreck the entire Christian world. When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It's time to call the apothecary. Märten Metsaviir leads the movie as Melchior Wakenstede!

1ST PHOTOS FROM EUROPE'S NEW PERIOD SET MOVIES: FRENCH HOME FRONT WITH GERARD DEPARDIEU & ESTONIAN MEDIAEVAL THRILLER MELCHIOR THE APOTHECARY

     'HOME FRONT' 

 STARRING GERARD DEPARDIEU

Home Front will arrive to French cinemas in November

As Tinseltown is still deep in its slumber, we continue charting the international waters here at the spy's headquarters this time with first photos from two new European period set movies. French drama HOME FRONT, based on the novel Des Hommes by Laurent Mauvignier, was a part of Cannes Film Festival's official selection. Starring Gerard Depardieu, it will arrive into French and Belgian cinemas this November. Check out the trailer below:

What's The Story?    
In 1960 they were called up to fight in the Algerian War. Two years later, Bernard, Rabut, Février and others came back to France. They kept quiet,

The film was presented at Cannes Film Festival

living in silence. But 40 years later, it takes almost nothing — a birthday party, or a gift held in one’s pocket — for the past to overwhelm those who have

Yoann Zimmer also stars in the French war drama

denied it for so long. In a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past. Lucas Belvaux both wrote and directed the film.

     'MELCHIOR THE APOTHECARY'

MEDIAEVAL ESTONIA MYSTERIES

I think we had an Estonian or Latvian movie presented here only once before, but now they are preparing something new together with Germany. Currently shooting over in Tallinn is MELCHIOR THE APOTHECARY

The film is an Estonian, Latvian and German coproduction

mediaeval crime movie, envisioned as a movie trilogy, based on Indrek Hargla's seven popular historical crime novels. Märten Metsaviir stars as clever Apothecary Melchior, who, beside curing the ill also solves mysteries

The books on which the film is based have been translated around Europe

and now needs to discover the secrets behind a wave of murders set in mediaeval Tallinn. In the first movie, Melchior is set with the task of solving the murder of a famous knight of the order. During the investigation, he finds out that the victim was going after a mysterious prisoner in Tallinn, whose

The film is being directed by Elmo Nuganen

traces lead back to the local Dominican monastery. In a medieval world where people look for signs of God or the Devil in everything, Melchior’s detective work appears to be truly magical – it’s even believed that he can speak with the dead. Melchior’s actual “secret weapon” is his knack for noticing traitorous

The film is planned as the first part of the whole trilogy of movies

details and his ability to understand the darkest desires of the human soul. He knows, better than anyone else, that sin is always waiting at the door and temptation can poison even the most noble of intentions. The movie is planned to arrive into cinemas sometime in the Autumn next year.