Condor's Nest
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| Condor's Nest | |
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| Directed by | Phil Blattenberger |
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| Written by | Phil Blattenberger |
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| Music by | Christof Unterberger |
| Cinematography | Daniel Troyer |
| Edited by | Nico Alba |
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Release date | TBA (2023) |
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Condor's Nest is a 2022 war film written and directed by Phil Blattenberger and starring Jacob Keohane, Al Pagano, Corinne Britti, Arnold Vosloo, Michael Ironside, Bruce Davison, Jorge Garcia, Jackson Rathbone and James Urbaniak. The film follows the revenge quest of Will Spalding (Keohane), an American aviator whose B17 bomber was shot down in August 1944 over Nazi-occupied France. SS Obersturmbannführer Martin Bach (Vosloo) finds the surviving airmen and commits a war crime, leading Will to track him to South America a decade later, where a clave of ex-Nazi politicians are building a new empire led by Heinrich Himmler, long presumed dead.
Blattenberger wrote the script in 2018, and Lost Galleon Films began preproduction by developing a series of movie sets in eastern North Carolina, including the full-scale B17F Flying Fortress and French farmhouse featured in the film's opening scene. Production was slated for 2020 but moved to summer 2021 due to the COVID Pandemic. The title was acquired by Voltage Pictures in 2021 and begun sales at the Marché du Film in May 2022.[1]
Plot[edit]
American World War Two veteran Will Spalding travels to South America on a vengeful quest in search of Colonel Bach, a sadistic Nazi officer who executed his bomber crew during World War Two. He teams up with an Israeli agent and an atomic scientist to pursue Bach across jungles and deserts, waylaid by betrayals, amphetamine-crazed Nazis, and his own dark secret.
Cast[edit]
- Jacob Keohane as William Spalding, an American aviator and B17 radioman serving in the U.S. Army Air Force. After the war he travels to Europe and South America in search of war criminal Martin Bach.
- Arnold Vosloo as Colonel Martin Bach, a sadistic SS colonel and Nazi war criminal.
- James Urbaniak as Heinrich Himmler.
- Michael Ironside as Yuri Astakhov, a Soviet agent.
- Bruce Davison as Gerhardt Schrude, a member of Himmler's cabinet.
- Jorge Garcia as Jaime Hipolito, proprietor of a Buenos Aires dive bar that operates as a ratline for ex-Nazis.
- Jackson Rathbone as Fritz Ziegler, a methamphetamine-crazed security captain intercepting threats to German interests in Paraguay and Bolivia.
- Al Pagano as Albert Vogel, one of Hitler's top atomic scientists who's wanted simultaneously by the Germans, Soviets, and Americans.
- Corinne Britti as Leyna Rahn, a Holocaust survivor and newly minted MOSSAD agent.
- Greg Kriek as Josef Krekeler.
- Michael Tourek as Rudolf Zinke.
- Matthew Ewald as Sergeant Kelly.
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Production company Lost Galleon Films and its art department spent two years hand-building a full-scale crashed B17F bomber in a studio in an undisclosed location in eastern North Carolina, near Rocky Mount because only a wrecked fuselage was available and didn't match the desired configuration. The same set included a large stone farmhouse.
The producers placed a heavy emphasis on location shoots, preferring the scale they offered over studio settings. Various American topographies doubled for South America, including a Bolivian airbase (Utah), an Argentine river (Puerto Rico), Paraguayan jungles (North Carolina). The European scenes, including the B17 crash site, were filmed in North Carolina, with various North Carolina sound stages rounding out several key interior scenes.
Casting[edit]
Blattenberger and casting director Dan Black first approached Ewan McGregor for the role of antagonist Martin Bach. McGregor eventually declined, and the producers agreed Arnold Vosloo was one of the best possible choices for the role, given his look, gravitas, and familiarity with German language, and reached out to his agents, who accepted. Opposite Vosloo was Jacob Keohane, a theatrical circuit actor who had starred in Blattenberger's debut film Point Man. Paired with Keohane were Al Pagano and Corinne Britti, then-unknown actors cast out of a worldwide audition pool of more than fifteen thousand individual submissions for their respective roles.
Actors with the ability to speak foreign languages moved to the top of the list as Blattenberger and Black pursued performers that could speak or learn fluent German. Michael Ironside flew to the top of the list, learning both German and Russian for the role. Jorge Garcia landed the role of Hipolito due in part to his ability to speak fluent Spanish. Bruce Davison and Jackson Rathbone both learned German. Actor James Urbaniak was cast due in large part to the tremendous difficulty of the part, which was entirely in Bavarian German, complete with politically rhetorical flair, a performance he was entrusted with due to his extensive career with voice work, and sharing a passing resemblance to the historical figure.
Filming[edit]
Principal photography begin in July 2021 in eastern North Carolina. The producers wrapped filming in October 2021 after a stint in Utah and Texas, the latter of which saw the crew filming with Texas Raiders. A series of trips to Peru and Puerto Rico provided B-roll footage for the production for use as inserts and establishing shots without featuring any actors.
Release[edit]
The film has not yet released and dates are pending.
References[edit]
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