![]() ![]() His search ends in Seville, under the orange trees. He sets out to find her when he does, she disappears again. On hisdeathbed Georg's father writes a letter to his then four-year-old son, tellinghim about a mysterious girl, carrying a bag of oranges, whom he sees for thefirst time in 1982. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whilelooking for a German co-producer, Helgeland and Dahr will be in Spain this week(Nov 2) to discuss with Seville's Jalao Films, which has been attached to theproject. "It isa warm and beautiful story about living and having the courage to love," saidHelgeland of The Orange Girl, which is Gaarder'smost successful novel since Sophie, so far translated into 38 languages. SandrewMetronome has purchased Nordic rights. MediaPlus has contributed $64,000 (Euros 50,000) and the Norwegian Film Fund $32,000(Euros 25,000) development support for the film, which will shoot in Norway andSpain during the autumn of 2007. Norwegianproducer Axel Helgeland, of Helgeland Film, will not only stage the production,but has co-written the script with Andrea Markusson. His Sophie'sWorld was published in 45 languages to become the world's bestsellingfiction book in 1995. Norwegiandirector Eva Dahr - currently in post with her new film, Mars andVenus - has been signed to direct The Orange Girl, a $3.8m (Euros 3m) feature from Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's latest novel. ![]()
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