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PRODUCTION Norway

SF Norge behind two new high-profile local projects

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SF Norge, the Norwegian arm of Scandinavian major SF, is currently filming in Hungary the WWII drama Svik, starring German actor Götz Otto and Norwegian singer-turned-actress Lene Nystrøm. SF Norge has also picked up distribution rights to the Norwegian project An Ordinary Day at Work, based on a script by Erlend Loe (North [+see also:
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Svik is set in the summer 1943. Nystrøm, the Norwegian pop star of the band Aqua (of the international hit “Barbie Girl”) who made her screen debut in Ole Bornedal’s Deliver Us from Evil [+see also:
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, plays nightclub singer Eva Karlsen, who works at the Club Havana. She flirts both with resistance fighters and SS officers, including the head of the Gestapo in Oslo, played by Otto (Schindler’s List).

The film is the directorial debut of Håkon Gundersen, who has been producing films in Hollywood and Europe for the past 20 years, including Revolution (1985) with Al Pacino and the 2006 animated film Free Jimmy [+see also:
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The NOK 20m film is produced by Alphaville for SF Norge. “We are in the middle of filming in Budapest and are very impressed by the level of professionalism,” said SF Norge CEO Guttorm Petterson. SF will release the film in Norway on October 9, 2009.
Another feature debut, Terje Rangne’s An Ordinary Day at Work will be released in the autumn 2010 by SF. The film is based on Håvard Melnæs’ autobiographical novel on his experiences as a young and ambitious journalist working for Norway’s popular gossip and scandal magazine Se Og Hør. The NOK 17.5m film is produced by Ørjan Karlsen (High School Teacher Pedersen) for Folk Flest Filmproduksjon.

The project, which was just awarded NOK 9.3m in production support from the Norwegian Film Institute, will start filming on August 25.

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