BERLIN -- Irish actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes ("Albert Nobbs") and Danish thesp Thure Lindhardt ("Keep your Lights On") are toplining Sherry Hormann's "3096," the very fact-based British-language pic about Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian girl who had been kidnapped and held hostage inside a basement in excess of eight years. Campbell-Hughes will have Kampusch, who had been kidnapped in 1998, at age 10, in Vienna by Wolfgang Priklopil during her method to school. Priklopil, who definitely are performed by Lindhardt, stored her jailed inside a specifically built cellar for 3,096 days until she handled to flee in 2006. The kidnapper committed suicide on the day that by jumping before an oncoming train. "We desired to take an outdoors-the-box approach," stated Hormann. "Getting an outsider's perspective, Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Thure Lindhardt are perfectly suitable for capture the overwhelming essence from the story: It is a universal story -- the madness from the act lies inside the act itself, wherever it happens." The up-and-coming Campbell-Hughes was feted as Ireland's Shooting Star this season in the European Film Promotion's annual Berlinale event honoring youthful talent. She's starred such films as Jane Campion's "Vibrant Star" and Rebecca Daly's "Sleep Issues restInch in addition to Johannes Roberts' approaching creature feature "Storage 24" and Kieran Evans' love story "Kelly Victor." Additionally to Ira Sachs' "Keep your Lights On," Lindhardt has made an appearance such U.S. films as Ron Howard's "Angels & Devils" and Sean Penn's "In to the Wild," in addition to Ole Christian Madsen The Second World War thriller "Flame & Citron," Nicolo Donato's "Brotherhood" and Neil Jordan's approaching "Byzantium." Amelia Pidgeon will have the youthful Kampusch. Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus ("The Departed") will lens the Constantin Film production, which starts principal photography in Munich in May. Martin Moszkowicz, Constantin mind of film and television, is creating.
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