04/04/2008

Shooting has just got underway in Norway on Eva Dahr’s new film The Orange Girl, which centres on a journey across Europe.

It is a rather unusual film in that the journey involves a co-production between three countries in the north, centre and south of the continent: Norway’s Helgeland Films, Germany’s Tradewind Pictures and Spain’s Jaleo Films. The title also received backing from Eurimages.

This new film by the director of Mars & Venus and Burning Flowers is adapted from the eponymous novel by well-known Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder, who achieved international fame with his book Sophie’s World. The screenplay was written by Axel Helgeland and Andreas Markusson.

The film tells the story of Georg, a 15-year-old boy with a passion for astronomy, who one day finds the letter that his father wrote to him years ago, before he died. In the letter, he recounts his love affair with the beautiful young orange girl around 1982. The father fell in love unexpectedly with this mysterious girl for whom he travelled the length and breadth of Europe, from Norway to Seville, where he was finally reunited with her.

The cast includes Mikkel Bratt Silset, Annie Nygaard, Henrik Rafaels, Rebekka Karijord and Harald Thomson Rosenstrom. The rest of the artistic team will be made up of people from the three co-producing countries.

The shoot is currently taking place in Norway, near Finse and Oslo, before it relocates to Seville and, in the first week of June, to the German city of Cologne, the final location. Local crews will be used in all three of the co-producing countries in which the film is set.

(Translated from Spanish)