MUMBAI: Lotus Productions and Integral Films will co-produce a 3D animated docu-fiction on the Dalai Lama that French director Jan Kounen will helm.

Initially titled The Secret History of the Dalai Lamas, the film has now been titled The Last Call. The film, based on a script by Jean-Claude Carriere, will be co-directed by Kounen and Anne Paris.
 

The Last Call that will focus on Tibetan culture and the history of the Dalai Lama through the times will feature real documentary footage and interviews with the current Dalai Lama plus fictionalised representations. The $4.9 million film will be shot in October and November this year.

Lotus Productions will also partner Integral Film on Heaven & Earth, the untold story of German pilot Erwin Dold, a prison camp commander of the Nazi Third Reich acquitted of charges after the war for his compassion for 5,000 prisoners.

Lotus is also in the pre-production stage on Capucine Henry‘s Shambhavi with Only Dreams India.