I’ve only just stumbled upon Blood Red Sky helmer Peter Thorwarth’s latest, Blood & Gold, as the official trailer made the rounds on Thursday. No doubt Thorwarth has earned the ceremony and the trailer looks just fantastic – partly due to the attachment of Vi-Dan Tran (AMC’s “Into The Badlands,” Paramount+ series “Halo,” upcoming Knights Of The Zodiac) as the film’s action director, and I’ve been following his work for some years now. So…yeah. This tracks.
Spring 1945. Blood & Gold is set in the final days of the Second World War, telling the story of the German deserter Heinrich (Robert Maaser), the young and courageous farmer Elsa (Marie Hacke) – and a whole host of Nazis. On his way home from the front to his daughter, Heinrich stumbles into the clutches of a marauding SS troop. Their leader (Alexander Scheer) leaves him hanging in a tree. But he is saved at the last minute by Elsa, who hides him on her farm. Meanwhile, the SS is searching for a Jewish treasure hidden in a nearby village, meeting bitter resistance from the fed-up villagers, who want to keep the treasure for themselves. Soon, Heinrich and Elsa are unwillingly dragged into this action-packed hunt for the gold, culminating in a bloody showdown at the village church.
Thorwarth directs from a script by Stefan Barth with a release on the streamer set for May 26, and to be clear, if it sounds like the characters are asking about gold, it’s precisely because of that. Take a look!
