Henning Mankell may be best known to American audiences as the author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, but he has also written a number of stand-alone crime novels as well as literary fiction. One of these latter books, Italian Shoes, first published in 2006, is being adapted for film, and in a possibly not so strange twist, Kenneth Branagh — who plays the small town Swedish police inspector in the made-for-television adaptations of the Wallander books — is set to direct it.
In Italian Shoes (Swedish title: Italienska skor), a devastating mistake drove Fredrik Welkin into a life as far as possible from his former position as a surgeon, where he mistakenly amputated the wrong arm of one of his patients. Now, many years later, he lives in a frozen landscape. Each morning he dips his body into the freezing lake surrounding his home to remind himself he’s alive. However, Welkins’s icy existence begins to thaw when he receives a visit from a guest who helps him embark on a journey to acceptance and understanding.
(Source: Variety.)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Kenneth Branagh to Direct Film Adaptation of Henning Mankell's Italian Shoes
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