The World Will Tremble, a historical drama about an escape from a Nazi death camp, has been acquired for worldwide distribution by Vertical.
Tremble is the second feature-length release by Israeli-American writer-director Lior Geller, whose 2008 short, Roads, holds the Guinness World Record for most awards won by a short student film.
“We are proud to release Lior’s feature about the incredible true story of this heroic escape that alerted the world to the events of the Holocaust,” says Vertical’s senior vice president of acquisitions Tony Piantedosi. The film is slated to open March 14.
The announcement comes on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, amid historic levels of heightened antisemitism, incidents of which have doubled worldwide since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.
Tremble stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Amazon’s Wilderness) and Jeremy Neumark Jones (Netflix’s Kleo) as Solomon Weiner and Michael Podchlebnik, two Jewish prisoners who escaped the Chelmno extermination camp and provided the first eyewitness accounts of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis.
Chelmno was the first of six extermination camps established by the Nazis solely for mass murder during World War II. It is about 300 miles from Majdanek, the extermination camp featured in Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-nominated film A Real Pain, and 300 miles from Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 1 million Jews were murdered in gas chambers.
Geller spent over a decade researching the film, collaborating with historians, Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center and the families of Weiner and Podchlebnik.
It also stars Charlie MacGechan (Pennyworth), Michael Epp (The Brutalist), David Kross (The Reader), Michael Fox (Downton Abbey) and Anton Lesser (Andor, Game of Thrones).
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