Claes Bang Stars as Himmler’s Masseur in ‘I Is Another,’ With Beta Cinema Selling at AFM

Beta Cinema has boarded international sales for “I Is Another,” about Nazi henchman Heinrich Himmler’s masseur, starring Claes Bang and Valerie Pachner. The film, directed by Felix Randau (“Iceman”), will launch at the American Film Market.

The story is set in autumn 1952: journalist Hedda and her husband Winfried ambush Felix Kersten, former massage therapist to SS Reich Leader Himmler on a train to Oslo. Kersten is said to have helped thousands of concentration camp prisoners to freedom during the Nazi era—at least according to his own account. But Hedda has her doubts.

She considers Kersten a mythmaker who is using fabricated heroic deeds to put himself in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. What begins as an interview develops into a tense, psychological cat-and-mouse game: Kersten, rhetorically brilliant and armed with alleged evidence, encounters a stubborn opponent who relentlessly confronts him with contradictions.

As the conversation comes to a head,…