Mandy Patinkin, Lena Dunham to star in Julia von Heinz’s Iron Box

Actors Mandy Patinkin and Lena Dunham have come on board to play the lead roles in German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s subsequent directorial enterprise Iron Box.
The movie revolves round a New York businesswoman who decides to take her ageing father again to his native Poland, the place she hopes to discover her Jewish roots.
According to Variety, Von Heinz expressed her want to work with Patinkin and Dunham whereas selling her newest movie And Tomorrow the Entire World final yr and despatched a duplicate of the film to each the actors to persuade them to board Iron Box.
And Tomorrow the Entire World, which focuses on an idealistic scholar who joins an Antifa collective to battle the fascist menace of neo-Nazism spreading throughout Germany, has been chosen to characterize Germany within the Oscars’ greatest worldwide function movie class.

The film is about to premiere on Netflix in April.
“First I watched her film And Tomorrow the Entire World and I knew instantly I was in the hands of a true filmmaker. She tells a riveting story in every frame and the performances are as truthful as I could ever wish for. Then we had a FaceTime call; she was full of humility, she was kind, two qualities that I long to be around. Then she sent me many books to read and an ancient language to begin learning. We were off to the races,” Patinkin stated in an announcement to Variety.
Iron Box is an adaption of Australian author Lily Brett’s bestselling novel Too Many Men.
The movie is a part of von Heinz’s Aftermath Trilogy, which examines the legacy of Germany’s Nazi previous in three very totally different movies.
Dunham stated she is assured of a good time working with Von Heinz and can also be wanting ahead to collaborate with Patinkin.

“Julia’s film struck a deep chord in me both because of its radicalism and its core value of empathy. I knew I wanted to go wherever she was taking me, and the fact that she’s taking me further into an exploration of what it means to be Jewish and the stories we carry forward as daughters of trauma is deeply moving to me. Mandy Patinkin is, of course, the icing on the genius cake.”
Regional German funder Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the German-Polish Film Fund and Creative Europe supported the event of Iron Box.