Following debuts at the Locarno and Sarajevo Film Festivals, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights for the Hungarian animated thriller Ruben Brandt, Collector.
Ruben Brandt, Collector, which stars Ivan Kamarás, Gabriella Hámori and Zalán Makranczi, opened to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike at the festivals and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics towards the end of 2019 for a qualifying run at the Oscars.
Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, MoMA.
Gangsters and headhunters chase him around the world while the reward for his capture keeps rising, approaching a hundred million dollars.