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The first footage from Michael Winterbottom's film Face of An Angel, a drama inspired by the Amanda Knox case, has been premiered on Variety's website.

The film is a fictional tale heavily based on the case in Italy, in which Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were accused of sexually assaulting and murdering British student Meredith Kercher – Knox was convicted and served four years of her jail term, acquitted, and again found guilty in a retrial last week.

The book Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox by the American journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau was a key inspiration for the film. It stars Daniel Brühl as a film-maker who travels to Italy to research a film adaptation of the book with its author, played by Kate Beckinsale. He becomes embroiled in the sensational case, and strikes up a relationship with a British student, played by model Cara Delevingne.

The film, co-produced by BBC Films, is still in post-production, but will soon be shopped around the European Film Market in Berlin which begins later this week. The prolific Winterbottom is also set to release his sequel to Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's gastronomic tour The Trip, which premiered at Sundance last month.