Anthony McCarten will direct political thriller The Price Of Peace, starring Guy Pearce, Jared Harris, and Merab Ninidze, a drama set during the 1945 Potsdam Conference that will begin production this summer in London.
SND is launching sales at EFM for the film, with US rights co-repped by SND and CAA Media Finance.
The conference took place after Germany’s defeat in the Second World War, when President Harry S. Truman (Pearce), Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Harris) and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (Ninidze) converged in Potsdam to shape the future of Europe and the world for decades to come. The film centres on the rising political tensions and personal crises that unfold as a high-stakes diplomatic chess game emerges.
The Price Of Peace is produced by Berlin and London-based Raccoon Features, the UK’s Muse of Fire Productions, the US’s Salloway Studios and Spark Productions in association with France’s Ingara. SND is also serving as co-producer and handling French distribution. It is expected to be completed in 2027.
McCarten, a four-time Oscar-nominee and writer of Darkest Hour, The Theory Of Everything and The Two Popes, said the film “is not a biopic, but rather a political thriller where the stakes are frankly enormous,” adding, “the Potsdam Conference represented a crucial turning point in world history, the moment when World War II transformed into the Cold War. Each of these three leaders faces a crisis on the world stage but also with their own conscience.”
Ramy Nahas, SND’s director of international sales and distribution, called the film “a profoundly human story that balances the personal and the universal.”
Citing Darkest Hour, he added that he believed McCarten “has a remarkable talent for injecting genuine suspense and emotional depth into well-known historical events, bringing these towering figures down to human scale while never diminishing their historical importance”.
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