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New love story for Erik Poppe

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Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe, who directed the acclaimed Hawaii, Oslo [+see also:
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, has received backing from the Norwegian Film Fund (NFF) for his new dramatic love story De Usynlige (lit. "The Invisible"), set to start shooting on April 16, 2007 for his own production outfit Paradox Spillefilm .

The film tells the story of two individuals who try to come to terms with what has happened to them: a woman who has lost her child and a young man who has become a murderer.

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"There are several similarities between De Usynlige and Hawaii, Oslo, the previous film by filmmaker Erik Poppe and scriptwriter Harald Rosenløw Eeg from Paradox", said Feature Film Consultant Nikolaj Frobenius of the NFF. "It is also a film about big issues, a film for a wide adult audience and a film about love relations and lost expectations. But if Hawaii, Oslo was complex and puzzling, Den Usynlige is clearly defined and concrete", he added.

Poppe himself says his film will not be dark and gloomy but warm: "This will be a story that feels real, that feels as if we get right inside the characters that are torn between what has happened to them and what they wish to become".

The original screenplay will be the fifth written for the big screen by Rosenløw Eeg, who recently wrote the scripts for Uro [+see also:
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and for Marius Host’s new drama Mirush, co-scripted with Lars Gudmestad. For the 46 year-old director Poppe, De Usynlige will be his third feature after the award-winning Schpaa (1998) and Hawaii, Oslo (2004), part of the Oslo trilogy.

The NOK 21.2m (€2.5m) project, produced by Finn Gjerdum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox, received €1.3m in support from the NFF. Shooting will take place between April and June 2007 and domestic distribution through Scanbox Entertainment is set for the autumn 2008.

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