27/11/2012 - The police will not investigate the alleged case of defamation of character in the Swedish director's Call Girl, since the accusation did not come from a relative

Sweden's Chancellor of Justice has announced he will not instigate a police investigation of Swedish director Mikael Marcimain's feature debut Call Girl [+see also:
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In the drama-thriller inspired by the Swedish brothel scandal in the late 1970s, a prime minister who looks like Olof Palme buys sex from an under-age girl, which the citizen claimed could constitute libel of Palme, who was murdered in 1986.

The Chancellor argued that the authorities not can react to the report because – as a principle – only relatives of the person considered defamed are entitled to express their opinion on the case.

Mårten Palme – Palme’s son – has previously said that audiences obviously are supposed to associate the character in the film with his father, but "it is hard to get involved with something like this, and I don't really know what one would win".

Meanwhile Marcimain's film, starring Sofia Karemyr with among others Pernilla August, which won the international critics’ FIPRESCI Award for Discovery in Toronto, is in 5th place on local charts after opening the Stockholm International Film Festival.

The director's next assignment will be the €11 million feature and four-part television series Gentlemen & Gangsters, from Swedish author Klas Östergren's novels Gentlemen (1980) and Gangsters (2005), scripted by the author, and scheduled for premiere in autumn 2014.

Part love story, part international thriller, set in the post-WW2 era with jazz music, poetry, hidden treasures and espionage, the package will be produced by Fredrik Heinig and Johannes Åhlund for B-Reel Feature Films and Swedish pubcaster SVT.

Marcimain has also signed to adapt Swedish author Stefan Spjut's debut novel, Stallo, which was sold to 15 countries before published in Sweden earlier this month (November). Anna Croneman's Bob Film Sweden AB will stage the thriller about stallos (human-like creatures who like to eat human flesh), which will shoot 2014-2015.