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 Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, acquires brand-new Sky Documentaries commissioned feature The Scream in partnership with Night Train Media for worldwide distribution for delivery May 2022.

The engrossing documentary feature The Scream (1 x 90’), a Curve Story Limited production, is directed by Jenny Ash (The World’s Biggest Murder Trial: Nuremberg, Me and My Penis) and Executive Produced by Rob Carey and Camilla Lewis for Curve Media, and by Academy and BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), known for his emotionally engaging and visually striking, genre breaking films.

The Scream is a remarkable story of the theft of one of the most iconic paintings in history, Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’, stolen during the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway. Two men from different worlds – a maverick Scotland Yard detective and an art loving thief from an Oslo housing estate – are brought together by a shared obsession. This fast-paced plot, peppered with surprising twists and turns, begins with an audacious theft, moves into a tense investigation with different suspects and on to an undercover sting operation fraught with risk.

Jonathan Ford, Managing Director at AMR comments, “We are delighted that AMR’s programming portfolio is continuing to grow with diverse features of such high calibre. We very much look forward to offering this fascinating film, commissioned by industry leaders Sky, to our many clients around the world.”

Herbert L. Kloiber, CEO and Owner of Night Train Media adds, “Set in the exciting world of art, this is a thrilling, multi-layered, cat-and-mouse true crime story that we are very excited to bring to screens later this year with Curve, Abacus and Sky.”

Rob Carey, Joint CEO, Curve Media notes, “Part Scandi-noir crime caper, part psychological exploration, the extraordinary story of Pal Enger, the heist and hunt to recover The Scream will captivate audiences globally.”

Norway, 1994. The eyes of the world are on Lillehammer for the start of the Winter Olympics. Just over eighty miles away, in the capital Oslo, two men break into the National Gallery. A minute later they emerge with a canvas and drive off. But this is no ordinary painting. It’s The Scream by Edvard Munch – one of the most iconic images in the world and worth over $100M. This is the remarkable story of the theft, the thriller-like cat-and-mouse caper that led to its recovery and the incarceration of a man, whose life-long obsession with The Scream catapulted him into the annals of art crime notoriety. The Scream is told through a combination of compelling interviews, stylised reconstructions, arresting archive footage and actuality, bringing a present-tense element to the film.