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HAMELIN

By Nathan BUCK

Art - Culture - Development 2026

As his final ballet teeters on the edge of collapse, a legendary choreographer must confront scandal, mutiny, and the limits of his genius—or lose the company, his legacy, and the women who made him.

- Year of production
- 2026
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Thriller, Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY, ITALY
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Nathan BUCK
- Producer(s)
- Eva Ariane HEISE (Bearlift Films), Nick O'HAGAN (Giant Films)
- Synopsis
- It is the day of the world premiere of a contemporary ballet “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” in a small
  German city. Aided by his closest collaborator, Miki, the rehearsal directrice and his former lover,
  the company’s founder and choreographer, Sebastian Teufel juggles the needs of his dancers,
  his prima ballerina wife, Imogen, Susan, a powerful dance critic and, Wolfgang the city’s Minister
  of Culture who wants to shut down the company. Knowing that the new ballet must succeed in
  order for the company to survive, Teufel removes his lead ballerina, Anja who is crushed when he
  promotes her rival and his new paramour, Florence. When Anja doesn’t appear for the show in
  which she still has an important solo to perform, Miki realizes that she is in trouble. Teufel
  reluctantly agrees to let Miki leave the theater to find Anya, but insists that Miki must dance the
  solo in the 3rd act which she agrees to, in spite of not having danced in public in 10 years.
  Enlisting the help of an ex-boxer cab driver, Mo, Anya races to Anya’s apartment finding her
  overdosed on sleeping pills and about to throw herself oﬀ her balcony, which Mo and Miki stop in
  the knick of time. While fielding calls from the opera house, Miki and Mo race Anya to a hospital
  where she gets her stomach pumped in ER. As she and Mo speed back to the opera house in
  time for Miki to dance the solo, Miki discovers evidence of Teufel’s sexual abuse of Anya on her
  phone. When she reaches the theater, Miki is rushed into a dressing room to prepare for the solo.
  and before she takes the stage, Miki publishes the photos of Sebastian’s abuse to a group chat
  exposing him to the entire company. Miki dances the solo perfectly, cementing the show’s
  success, and as the ballet comes to an close, it is clear that the company will survive. However,
  Sebastian is furious that Miki has exposed him, and confronts her outside the theater, and, just as
  he is about to hit her, he is knocked out by Mo. Dazed, Miki is pulled back inside by her dancers,
  and takes the curtain call as the company’s new director.
- Partners & financing
- Giant Films UK