Petr Jákl is a screenwriter, director and film producer. The latest film directed by Petr is the historical drama Medieval (2022), starring Ben Foster, Michael Caine, Til Schweiger and Matthew Goode. The Czech actors featured in the film include Karel Roden, Ondřej Vetchý, Marek Vašut and Jan Budař. In 2020, Petr was a producer on The Last Full Measure, a Lionsgate film with actors Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer and Peter Fonda. As a producer, he has also worked on American Traitor with Al Pacino (2021), Misfits with Pierce Brosnan (2021), Best Sellers with Aubrey Plaza and Michael Caine (2021), Savage Salvation with Robert DeNiro and John Malkovich (2022), One True Loves with Simu Liu (2022), The Inhabitant with Dermot Mulroney (2022), 57 Seconds with Morgan Freeman and The Black Demon with Josh Lucas. Petr has also worked with many other acclaimed actors such as Anthony Hopkins, Nicholas Cage, Alec Baldwin, Mila Jovovich and Vin Diesel.

Petr Jákl’s path to the world of film was not entirely typical. In his youth he was primarily involved in sports, namely judo, but he also became a Czech national champion in Arm Wrestling. In judo he is a ten-time national champion and he won the World Cup and won two bronze medals at the Academic World Championships. The highlight of his judo career was his participation in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where he finished thirteenth. Despite all his success in judo, Petr gradually moved on to a career in film. Just as in sports, he embarked on his career in film, whether as an actor or stuntman, with patience and determination. He eventually began to appear in Czech and foreign films. These included Joan of Arc (dir. Luc Besson, 1999) and xXx (dir. Rob Cohen, 2002). Director Besson and Rob Cohen encouraged Petr to continue his interest in film, and as a result he decided to go to America to study.

The film Kajínek (2010) was Petr’s directorial, writer and producer debut. The political thriller achieved the highest sales during its opening week and the highest total sales in this genre in Czech history. The film won the Czech Lion in the Supporting Actor category and the main prize at the Belgian Film Festival in Liege. This was followed by the film Ghoul (2015), which Petr again directed, wrote and produced. Ghoul became the highest-grossing horror film in Czech history and won the main award at the Grossmann Fantastic Festival. His most recent work, which he directed, wrote and produced, is the historical epic Medieval (2022).

Petr is also very intensively involved in project development. One such project is the film Calico Joe, on which Petr is an executive producer. John Grisham’s novel was adapted into a screenplay by Grant Heslov and George Clooney, who also stars in the film. One of the co-producers of the project, along with Clooney’s company, is Bob Dylan’s company. Petr is currently developing dozens of film and television projects, including a TV series with Stephen King and three films from Marvel creator Stan Lee, which he is producing with director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, with Angelina Jolie).

Petr also founded R.U.Robot Studios in 2022, a virtual film and video game studio that focuses on the development, production, post-production and distribution of films and video games. This studio is also distributing his film Medieval and producing the video game for the film for PC and consoles, as well as the MEDIEVAL game for phones.

Ben Foster is an award-winning actor of film and stage whose riveting performances have mesmerize audiences for over two decades. This year, he received rave reviews for his performance as Harry Haft in “The Survivor,” reuniting him with director Barry Levison who cast him in his first film “Liberty Heights.” The film was released by HBO after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. He also appeared in the Jeremy Zagar’s film “Hustle” this year opposite Adam Sandler for Netflix. Foster recently wrapped the true-crime thriller "Finestkind" opposite Tommy Lee Jones for director Brian Helgeland.

Foster starred in Debra Granik’s acclaimed film “Leave No Trace” for which he was nominated for a Gotham Award and London Critics Circle Film Award for Best Actor. In 2016, Foster starred opposite Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges in David Mackenzie’s critical smash “Hell or High Water,” winning the Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film, and named one of the best films of the year by the AFI. Additional credits include Scott Cooper’s “Hostiles,” Ron Howard’s “Inferno,” Craig Gillespie’s “The Finest Hours,” Stephen Frears’ “The Program,” Pete Berg’s “Lone Survivor,” David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” John Krokidas’ “Kill Your Darlings,” James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma,” Nick Cassavetes’ “Alpha Dog,” and two films directed by Oren Moverman: “Rampart” and “The Messenger.”

On television, Foster memorably recurred as Russell Corwin on HBO’s Six Feet Under (SAG Award – Ensemble Drama) and won an Emmy for his performance in the TV movie “Bang Bang You’re Dead.” On Stage, he played Stanley Kowalski in the Young Vic’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” opposite Gillian Anderson in London and at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. In 2013, Ben made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lyle Kessler’s play “Orphans” opposite Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge.

MICHAEL CAINE is a two-time Academy Award® winning film legend whose career has spanned six decades. Caine won his first Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters,” for which he also received Golden Globe® and BAFTA Award nominations. He took home his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for his role in Lasse Hallström’s “The Cider House Rules,” also winning a Screen Actors Guild Award® and earning Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations.

Caine has garnered four Oscar® nominations for Best Actor, the first coming in 1966 for the title role in “Alfie,” for which he also received a Golden Globe® nomination and a New York Film Critics Award. He earned his second Oscar nod, as well as a Golden Globe® nomination and an Evening Standard Award, for the part of Milo Tindle in 1972’s “Sleuth,” opposite Laurence Olivier. His role in “Educating Rita” brought him his third Oscar® nomination, as well as Golden Globe® and BAFTA Awards. He gained his latest Oscar®, Golden Globe® and BAFTA Award nominations for his work in 2002’s “The Quiet American,” for which he also won a London Film Critics Circle Award.

Caine previously won Golden Globe® and London Film Critics Circle Awards and received a BAFTA Award nomination, all for Best Supporting Actor, for “Little Voice.” He won his latest London Film Critics Circle Award for his performance in Christopher Nolan’s period drama “The Prestige.” It was his second film for the director following their collaboration on the 2005 hit “Batman Begins,” in which Caine played Bruce Wayne’s butler and confidant, Alfred. In 2008 and 2012, he reprised the role of Alfred in Nolan’s blockbusters “The Dark Knight” and “The Dark Knight Rises.” In 2012, he also completed working with director Sandra Nettleback on “Mr. Morgan’s Last Love”, based on the novel "La Douceur Assassine" by Francoise Dorner, as well as on Louis Leterrier’s “Now You See Me”, with Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, and Woody Harrelson.

Caine was born Maurice Micklewhite in South London in 1933 and developed an interest in acting at an early age. Upon his discharge from the Queen’s Royal Regiment and Royal Fusiliers in 1953, he began pursuing his career. Taking his stage name from the title “The Caine Mutiny,” he toured Britain in a variety of plays and began appearing in British films and television shows.

In 1964, Caine landed his first major film role as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in “Zulu.” The following year, he starred in the hit thriller “The Ipcress File,” earning his first of 37 BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayal of secret agent Harry Palmer. However, it was his Oscar®- nominated performance in the seminal sixties film “Alfie” that catapulted Caine to international stardom. During the late 1960s, he went on to star in 11 films, including “The Ipcress File” sequels, “Funeral in Berlin” and “Billion Dollar Brain”; “Gambit,” earning a Golden Globe® nomination; “Hurry Sundown”; “Woman Times Seven”; “Deadfall”; “The Magus”; “The Italian Job”; and “Battle of Britain.”

Over the next two decades, Caine starred in more than 40 films, including Robert Aldrich’s “Too Late the Hero”; “X, Y and Zee,” opposite Elizabeth Taylor; John Huston’s “The Man Who Would Be King”; “Harry and Walter Go to New York”; Richard Attenborough’s “A Bridge Too Far”; the Neil Simon comedy “California Suite”; Brian De Palma’s “Dressed to Kill”; John Huston’s “Victory”; Sidney Lumet’s “Deathtrap”; Stanley Donen’s “Blame It on Rio”; John Frankenheimer’s “The Holcroft Covenant”; Neil Jordan’s “Mona Lisa”; and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” for which he received a Golden Globe® nomination.

Since then, Caine has starred in such films as “Blood and Wine,” “Quills,” “Miss Congeniality,” and “Austin Powers: Goldmember,” Gore Verbinski’s “The Weather Man,” Alfonso Cuaron’s “Children of Men,” the title role in the independent film “Harry Brown,” and reuniting with Christopher Nolan in smash hits “Inception” and “Interstellar.” He lent his voice to Lord Redbrick in “Gnomeo & Juliet” as well as “Cars,“ and also appears in “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” for New Line/Warner Bros. Caine has also starred in Matthew Vaughn’s “Kingsman: The Secret Service;” Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth;” and Zach Braff’s “Going in Style,” alongside Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin. He more recently starred in James Marsh’s “King of Thieves.” Caine also produced and narrated “My Generation,” a bold, musically driven documentary about Britain in the sixties, which features Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, and other icons of the decade. Caine then starred in “Tenet” with Christopher Nolan- becoming their eighth collaboration. He followed with “Best Sellers” playing the leading role opposite Aubrey Plaza.

Caine is also a well known author having penned numerous novels on acting as well as autobiographies, such as “What’s It All About?,” as well as “Acting on Film,” a book based on a series of lectures he gave on BBC Television. His latest memoir, “The Elephant to Hollywood,” was published to much acclaim in 2010 by Henry Holt and Co. in the United States.

In the 1992 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Caine was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.), and eight years later he received a knighthood.

Caine is next set to star opposite Glenda Jackson in “The Great Escaper,“ to be directed by Oliver Parker.

SOPHIE LOWE can next be seen in the independent film, THE DIVE, which she recently shot in Europe. Previously, she appeared in the lead role of ‘Priscilla Connelly’ in Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy’s feature, BLOW THE MAN DOWN, which has received tremendous reviews and has a 99% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and was previously selected for the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Last year she shot the independent feature, MEDIEVAL, opposite Ben Foster and Michael Caine in which she beat out hundreds of girls for the female lead.

She can also be seen in the independent feature ABOVE SUSPICION opposite Emilia Clarke and Jack Huston for director Phillip Noyce. Her other credits include the independent feature WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE TO COME opposite Charlotte Rampling and Willie Nelson for director Lian Lunson as well as the Australian six-part miniseries A BEAUTIFUL LIE, a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina, which was nominated for a Logie award for outstanding miniseries.

Sophie made her screen debut in Rachel Ward’s critically acclaimed BEAUTIFUL KATE alongside Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown and Ben Mendelsohn. Her hauntingly nuanced performance was awarded with an AFI Nomination for ‘Best Lead Actress’, and the film was selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and Premiered the Sydney International Film Festival. Her film credits include BLAME which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival and was selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. Her international film credits to date include the independent coming of age drama AUTUMN BLOOD, directed by Mark Blunder, THE PHILOSOPHERS directed by John Huddles, ADORE alongside Robin Wright and Naomi Watts, and WHAT LOLA WANTS for director Rupert Glasson opposite Beau Knapp and Charles S. Dutton.

Her television credits include the U.S. remake of the acclaimed French series THE RETURNED for A&E opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead. She was the lead in ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND for US Network ABC. She received much praise for her role as ‘Connie’ in the adaptation of best-selling novel THE SLAP. The series received 2012 BAFTA & International Emmy nominations and also won AACTA and Logie Awards for "Most Outstanding Drama Series, Mini–series, Tele-movie." Other credits include Australian series ALL SAINTS, SATISFACTION, and IT’S A DATE.

Matthew Goode is an established English actor with extensive credits spanning television and film. A graduate of the renowned Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, Matthew has since become a familiar face on both the big and small screen.

He can most recently be seen staring in the Paramount Plus mini-series The Offer, opposite Miles Teller, Juno Temple, Dan Fogler and Colin Hanks. Matthew plays film producer and studio exec Robert Evans in this telling of the behind-the-scenes events of the 1972 film ‘The Godfather’ from director Francis Coppola.

In late 2021 Matthew starred in Matthew Vaughn’s highly anticipated The King’s Man, a World War I-set prequel to the fan favourite Kingsmen series. He stars alongside a stellar cast including Ralph Fiennes, rising star Harris Dickinson, Gemma Arterton, and Rhys Ifans. Matthew has also been recently seen in Silent Night opposite Keira Knightley, Lily-Rose Depp, and Roman Griffin Davis. Written and directed by Camille Griffin, the film had its world premiere at TIFF, before releasing early December last year. Mathew also recently starred alongside Pheobe Dynevor in The Colour Room, based on the life of the pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff, a young working-class factory worker who became one of the greatest Art Deco designers. Matthew also plays a supporting role in Roger Michell’s upcoming The Duke with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, and will also appear in Medieval from Czech writer-director Petr Jákl.

Matthew reprised his role of Matthew Clairmont in the second series of Sky’s fantasy drama A Discovery of Witches. Also starring Teresa Palmer, the series aired early 2021, with the third series returning in January this year. He was also seen in Four Kids and It alongside Russell Brand, Michael Caine, and Paula Patton. This children’s film follows a group of ids on holiday in Cornwall who meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.

2019 saw Matthew star in Official Secrets, Gavin Hood’s (Eye in the Sky) political thriller opposite Ralph Fiennes, Kiera Knightly and Matt Smith. He also made a cameo appearance reprising his role as fan favorite Henry Talbot in the Downton Abbey film with original cast members Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern.

In 2018, he starred alongside Lily James and Michiel Huisman in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mike Newell’s adaptation of the New York Times bestseller of the same name. Matthew took on the role of the writer’s agent ‘Sidney Stark’. He was also seen in the BBC Agatha Christie adaptation Ordeal by Innocence, starring opposite Bill Nighy and Alice Eve which aired episode one on April 1st, 2018. His portrayal of Tony Armstrong-Jones in Netflix royal drama The Crown opposite Claire Foy and Matt Smith was widely praised and secured him an Emmy nomination for ‘Outstanding Guest Actor – Drama Series’.

Previous notable film credits include Allied (2016), the Robert Zemeckis spy thriller starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cottillard; The Imitation Game (2014), the acclaimed, Academy Award®- winning Alan Turing biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kiera Knightly; Belle (2013), Amma Asante’s period drama; Stoker (2013), Chan-wook Park’s psychological thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska; Leap Year (2010), romantic comedy starring Amy Adams; A Single Man (2009), Tom Ford’s award-winning drama starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore based on Christopher Isherwood's novel of the same name; and Watchmen (2009), Zack Snyder’s superhero smash hit.

Additional Television credits include Matthew’s portrayal of Henry Talbot in the popular Golden Globe and BAFTA winning period drama in Downtown Abbey (2014-2015); Finn Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife (2014-2015); Death Comes to Pemberly (2013), the BBC murder mystery mini series; Dancing on the Edge (2013), the golden globe nominated BBC drama starring Chiwetel Ejiofor; and Birdsong (2012) the two-part BBC drama starring Eddie Redmayne adapted from the Sebastian Faulks novel of the same name.

Actor, producer, writer and director Til Schweiger is one of the most successful filmmakers from Germany. With more than 51 Million admissions no other German filmmaker drew more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company Barefoot Films GmbH based in Berlin, Germany.

Born in Freiburg, Germany on December 19th in 1963, Til Schweiger was raised along with his two brothers in his hometown Giessen. In his early years, Schweiger began studying German and Medicine. Collecting first acting experiences during this time, he decided to give up university for drama school in 1986 to pursue his career as an actor. After graduation in 1989, he played at several theaters in Cologne and Bonn.

Til Schweiger has attracted more than 70 million viewers to German cinemas over the course of his career and has starred in numerous films that have repeatedly broken the three-million-viewer barrier at the box office over the years. These include “Der bewegte Mann” (1994), which gave him his breakthrough as a cinema actor, “Knockin' on Heaven's Door” (1996), in which he also appeared as producer, screenwriter and - uncredited - director, “Keinohrhasen” (2007) and his biggest success to date as director, leading actor and producer “Honig im Kopf” (2014). Til Schweiger made his film debut as an actor in 1991 in “Manta Manta” - the sequel of which he is shooting in the summer of 2022 as director and leading actor. In the following years, he appeared in films and television series such as “Lindenstraße” (1990-1992), “Die Kommissarin” (1993-1996), “Bunte Hunde” (1995), “Das Superweib” (1995), “Männerpension” (1995), “Das Mädchen Rosemarie” (1996) and many more. For his role in “Bastard” (1997), he was the first foreign actor to be honored as Best Actor at the Warsaw International Film Festival.

He served as co-producer for films such as “Erbsen auf halb 6” (2003), “Phantomschmerz” (2008), “Wüstenblume” (2009); the German-Turkish production “8 Sekunden – Ein Augenblick Unendlichkeit” (2015) and most recently “Conni & Co” (2016), “Rückkehr nach Montauk” (2017) and “Vielmachglas” (2018).

Til Schweiger first appeared as an independent producer with “Knockin' on Heaven's Door” with Mr. Brown Entertainment, founded in 1997 together with Tom Zickler and André Hennicke - with whom he subsequently produced films such as “Der Eisbär” (1998) and “Jetzt oder Nie - Zeit ist Geld” (2000) - and from 2004 also with Barefoot Films, whose first production “Barfuss” (2005) immediately attracted more than 1.5 million moviegoers. With Barefoot Films, he also produced “One Way” in 2006 and the romantic comedy “Keinohrhasen” in 2007, which reached more than 6.3 million moviegoers. These were followed by one success after another, from “1 ½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde” (2008) to “Zweiohrküken” (2009), “Kokowääh” (2011), “Schutzengel” (2012) and “Kokowääh 2” (2013) to “Honig im Kopf” (2014). Most recently, he brought to theaters, “Klassentreffen 1.0” (2018), its sequel “Die Hochzeit” (2020) and “Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt” (2021).

Since April 2013, Til Schweiger can also be seen as a Hamburg investigator in “Tatort”, and in 2020 he also presented his first documentary film, “Schweinsteiger Memories - Von Anfang bis Legende”.

In addition, Til Schweiger has also made a name for himself in the U.S. His numerous American films include “The Replacement Killers” (1997), “Punk!” (1998), “Driven” (2001), “Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life” (2003), “Inglourious Basterds” (2009), “The Three Musketeers” (2011), “Happy New Year” (2011) and “Long Live Charlie Countryman” (2013).