The Universal Theory – Release News
Directed by Tim Kröger
Written by Roderick Warich & Tim Kröger
Starring
Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler & Gottfried Breitfuss
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IN UK & IRISH CINEMAS FROM FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER
★★★★
“Fiendishly clever and inventive… This wonderfully slippery Hitchcockian sci-fi is an elegant puzzle box full of ingenious ideas”
Phil De Semlyen, Time Out
“Superbly crafted”
Jessica Kiang, Variety
★★★★
“There’s an immersive strangeness that only David Lynch has snuck into mainstream cinema”
Daniel Green, Cine-Vue
Amongst the towering landscape of the Swiss Alps, a gifted young physicist meets an elusive pianist – one who knows things about him that he’s never told another living soul. Before he knows it, his curiosity traps him inside a mind-bending metaphysical web of murder and mystery. Set in 1962, against the backdrop of cold war tensions and a world of paranoid conspiracy, the secrets that lie beneath the mountains are slowly revealed as his investigations deepen and the gripping truth is revealed.
Drawing on the cinema of masters like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Fritz Lang, director Timm Kröger impeccably blends past and present, reality and the surreal, to create something utterly unique. Ambitious, compelling and visually breathtaking, THE UNIVERSAL THEORY is a lush cinematic mystery not to be missed.
The UK and Irish release pf THE UNIVERSAL THEORY is supported by German Films