Link to make 'Winter' for Constantin

Bavaria on board 'Aftermath' adaptation

By ERIK KIRSCHBAUM

BERLIN — Constantin Film and Bavaria have joined forces to make "Im Winter Ein Jahr" with helmer Caroline Link, who won the foreign language film Oscar for "Nowhere in Africa" in 2003.

Pic, which will shoot in and around Munich in the summer, is based on the novel "Aftermath" by Scott Campbell.

Drama is about a family coming to terms with loss after their teenage son is killed in an accident.

Cast includes several heavyweight German thesps, including Corinna Harfouch and Hanns Zischler.

Link was originally tapped by Robert Cort Prods. to make her English-language debut writing and directing an adaptation of "Aftermath" (Daily Variety, Mar. 16, 2005).