Icarus Movies has acquired North American distribution rights to Blum: Masters of Their Personal Future.
The documentary follows the lifetime of Bosnian engineer and Holocaust survivor Emerik Blum, who thrived throughout post-war years in Yugoslavia’s energy sector, the place he carried out an enormous company vitality and engineering conglomerate in a socialist state throughout the Chilly Warfare.
Archival footage and trendy testimonials paint a portrait of Blum as a humane chief and shrewd diplomat whose unconventional imaginative and prescient blended parts of socialism and captialism.
From Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić, Blum marks her return to the doc format after directing such narrative options in recent times as Love Island (2014), Males Don’t Cry (2017) and her Oscar-nominated drama Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020).
Most not too long ago, Žbanić directed the Season 1 The Final of Us episode ‘Kin’ in 2023, additionally releasing her personal Bosnian authorized drama I Know Your Soul that 12 months.
