Beta Cinema has boarded sales on Oscar-nominated director Hannes Holm‘s Let It Rain starring Robert Gustafsson, star of box office hit The 100-Year-Old Man, ahead of the AFM.
The Munich-based company will present first images of the film – which wrapped in September – at the newly-located Las Vegas market.
Set in a small town in Southern Sweden, the comedy stars Gustafsson as grumpy widower with a regimented life whose relationship with his daughter has deteriorated since his wife died.
Apart from his daughter, the only other things left in his life are his annoying, divorced neighbor Burman and tending to his late wife’s roses. His life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself at the center of a miracle in one of the driest summers in living memory.
Holm co-wrote the screenplay with Jonas Karlsson, in an adaptation of the latter’s novel Regnmannen (The Rain Man). John Christian Rosenlund (The Wave, The King’s Choice, Hammarskjöld is attached as cinematographer.
Holm earned two Academy Award nominations for A Man Called Ove, which went on to be an international box office hit in 2016, grossing over $30 million worldwide and was later remade as A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks.
He is one of Sweden’s most successful filmmakers, with other hits like Adam & Eva (1997), Shit Happens (2010) and the Andersson Trilogy (2012-2014), all of which set box office records in Sweden.
His new film is produced by Patrick Ryborn, Unlimited Stories in co-production with Nordisk Film, SVT, Film i Skåne, Film i Väst, Nouvago Capital and DR. The production is supported by the Swedish Film Institute and the Nordic Film & TV Fund.
Nordisk Film is distributing in Scandinavia and will release Let It Rain during the Christmas holidays in 2025.
