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PIECES OF A WOMAN | Cutting | NL | Kornél Mundruczó (2020)
EXCLUSIVE: Hungarian filmmaker Kornel Mundruczo, best known for titles such as White God (2014) and Pieces of a Woman (2020), has signed with WME.
Mundruczo, who also founded the Budapest-based independent film production company Proton Cinema Kornél, continues to be represented by Stuart Manashil of Novo.
The filmmaker will next direct At the Sea, a feature film featuring an ensemble cast including Amy Adams, Brett Goldstein, Murray Bartlett, Jenny Slate, Dan Levy and Chloe East. Mundruczo has also signed on to direct The Revolution According to Kamo, a biopic about the friendship between Simon Arshaki Ter-Petrosyan and his childhood best friend Soso, who would later become Joseph Stalin. Mundruczo's frequent collaborator Kata Weber wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from an original script by Pawel Pawlikowski and Ben Hopkins.
