A NEW TINDER SWINDLER ARRIVES IN UK CINEMAS
22nd NOVEMBER 2024

“A gripping thriller and a beautiful adventure of female solidarity”
ELLE

“Kronlund's film shatters expectations at every stage”
EYE FOR FILM

“A captivating and engaging duplicitous detective documentary”
CRITICAL POPCORN

“This entertaining documentary touches on a universal desire to reinvent oneself”
SCREEN DAILY

Sovereign is proud to announce the release of the jaw-dropping documentary THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND A FACES in select UK cinemas on 22nd November 2024.

Acclaimed writer and director Sonia Kronlund follows up her amazing Cannes-nominated The Prince of Nothingwood with the story of a seductive conman, THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES, that received its world premiere at this year’s Raindance Film Festival.

In the film, Kronlund deftly peels back the layers of womanising fraudster Ricardo, revealing his cruel guile, dexterous deceit and horrifying lack of compassion, despite passing himself off as cultured, kind and romantic, and variously an engineer, a heroic surgeon or an army doctor. As well as interviewing some of the women he fooled, Kronlund hunts Ricardo down, leading to a nerve-wracking and revealing confrontation… and a revenge, or sorts, for his victims.

Even more outrageous and unbelievable than the gripping Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler and BAFTA-winning conman classic The Imposter, THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES is a timely and cautionary look at the perils of taking things at face value in a world where nothing is quite what it first appears.

Synopsis: He goes by the names of Alexandre, Ricardo or Daniel. He calls himself a surgeon or an engineer, Argentinian or Brazilian. He lives with four women at the same time, adapting his story and even his personality traits to each one. A first-person investigation, with the help of a private detective, into an imposter with a thousand imaginary lives.

THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES: FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

The Man With A Thousand Faces had its world premiere at the Raindance Films Festival where it was nominated for Best Documentary Feature

ABOUT SOVEREIGN

Sovereign releases auteur-driven feature films in the UK, from emerging and established international talent. Our carefully curated titles have played to strong critical and audience acclaim, often premiering at renowned international film festivals, including Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto, Venice and many more.

Previously acquired titles include Peru’s entry into the Oscars Song Without A Name, which screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival; Philippine crime drama Verdict, which received the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the 76th Venice Film Festival; historical drama Malmkrog, which won Best Director in the Encounter section and opened the 70th Berlin Film Festival; Argentinian psychological thriller A Common Crime, which received its world premiere at the 70th Berlin Film Festival; Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, which won the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival; and Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu, winner of the prestigious CTS Artist award at last year’s Cannes Film festival, and also nominated for the Palme d’Or; Memoria, from Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, starring Tilda Swinton, which won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2021; Bolivian director Kiro Russo’s The Great Movement, winner of the Special Jury Prize in the Horizons strand at the 2021 Venice Film Festival; Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, starring Woody Harrelson, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival; Bent Hamer’s award-winning The Middle Man starring Pål Sverre Hagen and Paul Gross; Francisca Alegría’s The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; the thriller Inside, from writer/director Vasilis Katsoupis and starring Willem Dafoe; Laurent Nègre’s World War two drama A Forgotten Man, starring Michael Neueschwander as a Swiss diplomat; Kirill Serebrennikov’s astonishing biopic Tchaikovsky’s Wife; the extraordinary supernatural drama Sorcery; and Radu Jude’s acclaimed comedy Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of The World.

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