EXCLUSIVE: Archstone Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Russian Poland, a new feature film written and set to be directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker David Mamet.
The film will be produced by Barry Germansky, with Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin serving as executive producers. Casting is set to begin this summer, with a planned spring 2027 production start. Archstone will launch worldwide sales on the project at Toronto.
The film’s official synopsis reads: “Set in 1948, Russian Poland follows two Jewish-American WWII veterans who, disguised as British airmen, steal a bomber to run arms to Israel. When a mysterious elderly Holocaust survivor joins them aboard the flight, his uncanny parables about a vanished shtetl transform their mission into a spiritual reckoning, one that may determine whether the three men reach the coast alive.”
Russian Poland is the latest feature project from Mamet, whose credits span the stage and screen, including Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables, The Verdict, American Buffalo, House of Games, Hoffa, The Edge, The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog, Heist, Henry Johnson, and the upcoming Speed-the-Plow, which is set to star Anthony Mackie, Ben Mendelsohn, Emily Alyn Lind & Sharon Stone.
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Scott Martin of Archstone Entertainment described Mamet as “one of the great American storytellers” in a statement and said, “Russian Poland is a powerful, distinctive project from one of the most important writer-directors of our time.”
“Over the past several years, Archstone has built a home for elevated, filmmaker-driven cinema, and no one embodies that spirit more than David. We are honored to bring this deeply personal and universally resonant film to the global marketplace,” said Scott Martin of Archstone Entertainment,” Martin added.