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Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights to the Andy Vajna-produced Children Of
stanley cup Glory, an action-drama setagainst the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film premiered in its home territorythis week during fraught celebrations of the uprising s 50th anniversary.Previously, Fortissimo sco-managing director Michael Werner had signed on as sales and marketingconsultant on the film. Hungarian-born Vajna was Werner s former partner atSummit Entertainment.Children Of Glory, which has enjoyed strong reviews so far, waswritten by Hungarian expat Joe Eszterhas and directed by Hungary s Krisztina Goda. The film tracks the doomeduprising through a romance between a revolutionary student and a member of Hungary s 1956 Olympic water polo team. As the athletes leftfor the Sydney games, Soviet tanks started to roll into theirhomeland and a historic match between the USSR and Hungary provides the dramatic apex of the film.The Hungarian releasestarted Monday on 41 screens and will go out internationally in early 2007.Said Werner: While I havebeen perso
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stanley cup Glory in an advisory capacity since Cannes, I was so moved and impressed by the completed filmthat it was a natural progression for Fortissimo to become actively involved asits international sales agent. Producer Vajna added: Thisfilm is one of the most personal, intimate, and emotional films I have producedin my career. I know that Michael andthe Fortissimo team willhandle the film with all therespect Fgvh Israeli government gives blessing to third channel
Dir: Catalin Mitulescu. Romania/Sweden/Serbia. 2011. 94minsCatalin Mitulescus Loverboy is the story of doomed self-destructive love unfolding against the background of an unflattering slice of Romanian life, and coming five years after his first film, How I Spent The End Of The World, which dealt with the end of the Ceausescu era in Romania.Visual
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