Enemy Hearts on Disney +: 3 Things to Know About Romantic Drama with Keira Knightley

Inspired by True History…

Three years after its release in theaters, the moving romantic drama Enemy Hearts joins the platform’s already complete catalog. Disney +. In this adaptation of Ridian Brooke’s bestseller, published in France under the title In someone else’s houseRachel Morgan (Keira Knightley) joins her husband Lewis (Jason Clark) in Hamburg at the end of World War II in 1946.

While Lewis, an officer in the British forces, is in charge of rebuilding the destroyed city, the couple settles in the house of a German architect (Alexander Skarsgდისrd), where he raises his teenage daughter alone. If Rachel takes care of those she considers an enemy, a completely different feeling will emerge over time …

Although Reedan Brooke’s novel is fiction, the author established his own family history to begin his narrative. Indeed, his grandfather, Colonel Walter Brook, went to Germany with his family after the war to help the country in ruins. There he was offered the opportunity to requisition the house, but refused to evict his German residents, as was then customary at the time.

Therefore, it is between the newcomers and the owners of the seats that this coexistence follows the writer, with a touch of romance born of the latter’s imagination. “I wanted to imagine how a woman, like my grandmother, felt at home with a German family and follow her personal path from grief and superstition to acceptance and understanding.” He trusted BBC News.

. Well known to Ridley Scott

The story of Enemy Hearts will quickly reach the ears of people who are incredibly familiar with this period … In 2010, when Ridan Brooke presented his project to the production company Scott Free, created by directors Ridley and Tony Scott, he turns out to be two. Film directors are actually more familiar with this narrative than anyone could have imagined.

Coincidence and not so insignificant: the two brothers are well aware of the environment staged by the author as they themselves lived in Frankfurt, then Hamburg, after the war. “My house in Frankfurt was the house of a German officer. My mother was a good friend of his wife, who came once a month to check that we were taking care of the house.” Recalls Ridley Scott, executive producer of the film.

Which was the first, the novel or the script?

Unusually, a novel In someone else’s house (Further Original version) was born after the idea for the film Enemy Hearts: Ridan Brooke was already working on a feature film script when he was offered to publish his short story by Penguin Books.

The author still remained involved in the development of the romantic drama, accompanied by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, who had previously collaborated with Frankie & Alice and The Color of Victory. And that’s the script that won director James Kent: “I was sent the script, I liked it and immediately wanted to make a movie”.

Find the movie Enemy Hearts now on Disney +.