Mesmerizing Full Trailer for ‘Das Licht’ – Tom Tykwer’s Latest Movie
by Alex Billington
December 19, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“We’re the explanation why the world is getting ready to catastrophe…” The reality proper there. Whoa! X Verleih has revealed the complete German trailer for the movie titled The Gentle, also referred to as Das Licht in German. It is the newest function movie from acclaimed German filmmaker Tom Tykwer, his first function since A Hologram for the King in 2016, as a result of he is additionally been engaged on the “Babylon Berlin” collection for the final 8 years. The movie has a March 2025 launch date in Germany and can premiere on the upcoming 2025 Berlin Movie Competition in February as the massive Opening Night time movie. A household faces collapse as they take care of fashionable points, looking for new beginnings in a troubled world. Their life is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious Syrian girl, who “places the Engels’ emotional world to an unexpectedly wild check.” Filming passed off in Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia and Kenya. Starring Lars Eidinger, Nicolette Krebitz, Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause, and Elyas Eldridge. It is a mesmerizing trailer, with some significantly wild footage within the second half – not solely with the lights they’re utilizing, however tune & dance numbers, flying throughout the water, an animated sequence and extra. Appears to be like like Tykwer has one thing harsh to say about fashionable German society! Let’s go.
Here is the complete official trailer (+ poster) for Tom Tykwer’s movie Das Licht, direct from X Verleih’s YouTube:
“After fairly a very long time spent within the roaring 20s with ‘Babylon Berlin’, I can lastly flip my consideration again to the current. In The Gentle, there may be arguing, wrestling and combating, however there may be additionally laughter, singing and dancing. The movie goals to problem the spectrum of feelings and the corresponding narrative prospects. And the characters are very acquainted to me. So I wish to attempt to replicate their internal turmoil and on the similar time their closeness for the viewers and make it tangible.” –Director Tom Tykwer
You’ll be able to rewatch the teaser trailer for Tom Tykwer’s Das Licht movie proper right here, for the short first look once more.
In The Gentle, Tom Tykwer paints the portrait of a household caught between collapse and new beginnings, coping with the massive problems with our time in a world that’s reeling. Tim (Lars Eidinger), Milena (Nicolette Krebitz), their virtually grown-up twins Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) & Jon (Julius Gause), and their son Dio (Elyas Eldridge) – that is the Engels household, who seemingly don’t have anything left to carry them collectively when the housekeeper Farrah (Tala al Deen) enters their lives. The mysterious Syrian girl places the Engels’ emotional world to an unexpectedly wild check. Das Licht, also referred to as The Gentle, is written and directed by acclaimed German filmmaker Tom Tykwer, director of the movies Lethal Maria, Winter Sleepers, Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, Heaven, Fragrance: The Story of a Assassin, The Worldwide, Three, Cloud Atlas, A Hologram for the King beforehand, and dealing on the “Babylon Berlin” & “Sense8” collection. Produced by Uwe Schott and Tom Tykwer and X Filme Artistic Pool. X Verleih will debut Tykwer’s Das Licht in German cinemas beginning March twentieth, 2025 subsequent 12 months. No US launch date is ready – keep tuned.