The period drama Bel Ami will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 17.

The film, starring Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci, is directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod.

Bel Ami, based on the 1885 French novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant, is a chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's most influential and wealthy women.