We’re just hearing that Agnieszka Holland’s latest feature Charlatan is going to be released on premium digital platforms by AX1 on 7th May. The film premiered as a special gala at last year’s Berlinale and finally makes it to screens next month.
The film made the shortlist for Best International Feature at this year’s Oscars, and is based on the true story of infamous Czech healer Jan Mikolášek.
Here’s the full synopsis:
Few true stories tread the thin line between good and evil as precariously as that of Mikolášek, whose great success masked the grimmest of secrets. He won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for “urinary diagnosis” but his passion for healing stemmed from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell – his assistant, František. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan’s conflicts are put to a final test,with the fate of his life’s only love in the balance.
Here’s a trailer for the film which was posted to YouTube a year or so ago.
