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BERLINALE 2012 Market / France

Tey: a Golden Bear candidate for Wide Management

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Great satisfaction for French international sales company Wide Management whose line-up this year includes for the first time a feature film selected to compete at the Berlinale! Franco-Senegalese co-production Tey by Alain Gomis (read more) will make its world premiere next Friday during the 62th Berlin Film Festival from February 9 to 19.

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Loïc Magneron’s team will have other assets on show at the European Film Market with two films in the festival’s Panorama section: The Parade [+see also:
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by Srdjan Dragojevic (article), produced by Serbia, Cratia, Slovenia, and Macedonia, as well as Franco-German co-production Calm At Sea by the skilled Volker Schlöndorff. Produced by Les canards sauvages, Arte France, 7e Apache Films, and ProvoBis Film, this last film retraces the story of the French political prisoners executed in October 1941 in Châteaubriant, in revenge for the murder of a German officer in Nantes. Among them is Guy Moquet, a young communist militant, whereas on the German side the novelist Ernst Jünger is in charge in Nantes and the future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Heinrich Böll is part of the execution squad. Léo Paul Salmain, Marc Barbé, Ulrich Matthes, and Jean-Marc Roulot star in the film, Lubomir Bakchev was director of photography, and Bruno Coulais composed the music.

Among Wide Management’s planned market screenings in Berlin are also Beast Paradise by Estelle Larivaz (read more), The Mole by Polish director Rafael Lewandowski, Sexual Chronicles of a French Family by Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr and Amanha by ChristineLaurent.

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(Translated from French)

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