Helmed by award-winning director Jett Blakk , “Unspeakable” centers on Nazi hunter Matt Majors and his insatiable quest for justice. He receives a tip that the youngest Nazi ever to command a concentration camp currently is living in Los Angeles — but is immediately attracted to the ex-Nazi’s grandson, played by Cole Ryan.
Rounding out the cast are Braxton Bond, Duke Rivers, Adam Faust, Ty Hudson, Sean Steele and director/producer Dan Cross in the nonsex role of the grandfather.
“The idea actually sprang from ‘The Boys From Brazil,’” Blakk said. “I was thinking about one of the earlier scenes where Steve Guttenberg played a young Nazi war criminal hunter, and I began to wonder what kind of life that would be and if there was ever time for romance or relationships. Then the rest of the idea hit me: What if he fell in love with a relative of his newest prey? That was how the idea came about and got developed.”
After pitching the idea to another distributor, he was told that they would not distribute it because of the subject matter. “The fact that it might be considered controversial didn't even occur to me at first, because I always knew that the movie was really about the love story,” Blakk said.
“The Nazi war criminal thing was just the trappings. Anyway, I packed [the idea] away in the back of my mind and about a week later, I had just finished doing 'Masque' for Oh Man! when Bruno asked me what I wanted to do next. I told him I had a really nice idea, but it was apparently controversial. I told him the story, and he said he wanted me to make it for him.”
Oh Man! owner/producer Bruno Riccelli had reservations about the subject matter at first. “I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when Mr. Devil told me about the movie,” he said. “I just thought that it sounded like a different type of movie so why not try it?”
After the movie was completed, Riccelli had no idea of the controversy that would surround his project.
“I was going to Berlin for the Venus festival and had planned on making a huge poster of the movie with the Nazi flag on it,” he said. “Guess what? They’re not all that keen on seeing a Nazi flag in Germany! Someone told me that I would be arrested and all my merchandise confiscated. So I lost a few nights sleep but I figured that if we had the balls to make the movie, we could have the balls to sell it. So we have two different versions of our cover — one European, one U.S. And it’s a really good movie.
“The ironic thing?” Riccelli said. “My first sale was to a German distributor.”
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