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Magnolia Pictures has acquired all North American rights for Nordic thriller Operation Napoleon – Tears Of The Wolf, which is currently shooting in Finland, Iceland, and Germany. The acquisition is among a round of first presales announced by Beta Cinema on Wednesday as it presents the project to buyers at the AFM. The film has also pre-sold to UK & Ireland (Signature Entertainment), France (Mediawan), Spain (Twelve Oaks) and Poland (Hagi Film). The movie is a sequel to the international hit Operation Napoleon which sold to more than 40 territories and was a box office hit in Germany in 2023. Adapted from Arnaldur Indridason’s eponymous bestseller, it starred Vivian Ólafsdóttir as Kristin, a young lawyer who is inadvertently caught up in a plot to coverup a World War Two secret. The new English-language adventure reunites Ólafsdóttir (It Hatched) with Jack Fox (Riviera), and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (Severance, True Detective), under the direction of Jyri Kähönen (Trackers, Bordertown). The intrigue follows Kristin and her team on a high-stakes hunt for the legendary “Tears of the Wolf”—a cache of Nazi diamonds hidden during WWII. After witnessing a murder, Kristin uncovers clues that lead to encrypted codes and lost musical notes, propelling the trio across Iceland, Finland, and Germany toward a dramatic showdown in Helsinki’s underground bunkers and the Finnish Archipelago. Kähönen directs from a script written by Marteinn Thorisson (Operation Napoleon, Jack Taylor, Niko). New cast members include Tom Weston-Jones (True Things, Warrior, Copper) and Laura Birn (Void, The Crow, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Foundation). Operation Napoleon – Tears of the Wolf is produced by Anita Elsani and Alexander Klein for Splendid Entertainment, Germany, Kjartan Thor Thordarson of Stockholm and Reykjavík-based Sagafilm, and Eero Hietala and Sara Norberg for Take Two Studios, Finland, alongside co-producing partner Elsani Film. The production is supported by MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Business Finland, West Finland Film Commission and the Icelandic Ministry of Industry and Innovation. Sam Film will release theatrically in Iceland, Splendid Film in Germany and Cinemanse in Finland.
