Winter warriors, Referring to war fighters between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-1940, will be produced by Dimitri Rassam. No release date has been announced.
The former policeman who became the author of Roman is courted by the 7the art. Winter warriorsnovel by Olivier Norek where he described war fighters between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-1940, will be adapted in feature film with Dimitri Rassam as producer, the writer to AFP announced on Thursday.
“It’s a huge cinematographic adventure that is preparing”with an international cast in view, said Olivier Norek. Dimitri Rassam produced in 2024, The Comte de Monte-Cristoenergetic rereading of Alexandre Dumas, with Pierre Niney in the title role.
Published in August 2024, Winter warriors (ed. Michel Lafon) is the ambitious and breathless account of Finland’s resistance to the invasion of the Soviet giant. The novel is centered on Simo Häyhä, a gifted peasant with a rifle which, by turning in sniper, will become a national hero and a legend of military history.
Award for the Jean Giono Prize
Olivier Norek received the Jean Giono 2024 prize for this work, which was also selected from the first selection of 16 novels from the Goncourt Prize and the five finalists of the Renaudot Prize. The 49-year-old author is a former police officer from Seine-Saint-Denis. After choosing the realistic detective novel, a genre with which he tried to thwart the clichés on the “hard” suburbs, he went to the historical novel with this title.
Today, “I have a book in gestation: I have the subject, I have to go into documentation”he explains. But “Right now, I’m working on series and films, I’m very busy”he underlines on the sidelines of a press conference presenting the series Surfacetaken from one of its thrillers and which will be broadcast by France Télévisions in the coming months.
Another novel by Olivier Norek will be adapted: In capelans mists (Michel Lafon edition), fourth episode of the adventures of the Coste police captain, released in 2022. The scenario is being written by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière, the duo who was at the helm of the Comte de Monte-Cristo.