

Hofmann revealed that, as part of the film’s financing from broadcaster ARD Degeto, a longer TV version of two 90-minute episodes has been made in addition to the 155-minute theatrical version. Moreover, the producers would have freedom in casting since Shaman is set in the 19th century some 800 years after the events in The Physician. “But we won’t have this discussion before the film has reached 3m admissions in Germany and Spain,” said Bauer, who is currently reading Shaman for the seventh time. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the world premiere of The Physician in Berlin on Monday evening, Bauer explained: “We have discussed this with Noah Gordon and would have access. The Physician’s producers Wolf Bauer and Nico Hofmann have indicated that they may take on the other two books of Noah Gordon’s trilogy, of which The Physician is the first part: Matters Of Choice and Shaman.
