Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search For Meaning has been acquired by Straight Up Films and put into development. It was previously optioned by Fuego Films and F Squared.
Straight Up Films
Tells the true story from the 1950s of when nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains were found mysteriously dead, with unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled their tent, elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes, and a haunting final photograph taken by one of the hikers.
Described as Life Is Beautiful in tone, adapts the hopeful memoir written by renowned therapist Viktor Frankl nine days after he was released from a three-year imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps.
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