Samuel Theis, who played the husband of Sandra Hüller’s character in Justine Triet’s Golden Globe-winning film Anatomy of a fallwas kicked out of filming his third film as director, I swore to youafter being accused of rape by a member of the team, he confirmed Variety. For the remainder of production, Theis remained on location but directed the film remotely.
The alleged sexual assault occurred in the middle of filming, after a party held in an apartment with the cast and crew on July 1 last year, according to the French newspaper Liberation. The team member spent the night on the floor where the party took place, due to his drunken state, and claimed to have been raped by Theis in the early hours of the morning. The filmmaker, for his part, maintained that it was consensual Liberation.
Source: Clarin
