Exclusive: Icon Film Distribution has taken UK and Ireland rights to Teodora Ana Mihai’s Heysel 85fromFrench outfit Salaud Morisset.
The film is a political thriller telling the inside story of the Heysel Stadium disaster, which led to the deaths of 39 football supporters at the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool Football Club and Juventus in Brussels.
What made the tragedy all the more grim is that events were broadcast on live TV to an estimated audience of 400 million viewers. Even after the deaths, many of which happened before kick-off, the match went ahead.
Heysel 85 had its world premiere as…