A first look at “I Is Another.” Photo: Beta Cinema

Beta Cinema has boarded international sales for Felix Randau’s German historical drama “I Is Another” about the massage therapist of Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

The film, starring Claes Bang (“The Square,” “The Great Arch”) as Himmler’s masseur, wrapped production on Sept. 3. Filming took place in the German cities of Leipzig, Weimar, and Vienna. Beta Cinema will present first footage to international buyers at the American Film Market (AFM) taking place from Nov. 11-16.

Set in Autumn 1952, the film follows journalist Hedda and her husband Winfried as they ambush Felix Kersten, Himmler’s former massage therapist, on a train to Oslo. Kersten says he helped thousands of concentration camp prisoners to freedom during the Nazi era, but Hedda has her doubts of his accounts. She believes Kersten fabricated details about his heroic efforts to put himself in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.

“What begins as an interview develops into a tense, psychological cat-and-mouse game: Kersten, rhetorically brilliant and armed with alleged evidence, encounters a stubborn opponent who relentlessly confronts him with contradictions,” read a synopsis of the film provided by Beta Cinema.

“I Is Another,” explores “the blurred lines between truth and self-mythologizing,” said Beta Cinema in a released statement. “The story of Himmler’s masseur is as controversial as it is compelling, and Claes Bang brings a powerful presence to this morally complex role.”

Randau (“Iceman”) directed the film and also wrote the script, with cinematography by Sebastian Thaler (“Transatlantic,” “7500”). The cast also includes Valerie Pachner, Susanne Wuest, Timocin Ziegler, and Martin Müller.