21/03/2003

The French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin will attend the charity gala premiere of Ole Bornedal’s I Am Dina [+see also:
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The film’s protagonists, Gérard Depardieu and Maria Bonnevie, writer Herbjørg Wassmo, producers Per Holst and Axel Helgeland and Steffen Kragh, the head of Egmont/Nordisk Filmswill also attend the event organised by French distributor SND in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Paris.
On 1 April, the Norwegian Embassy will continue its I am Dina celebration with the screening of the film for 400 guests, followed by a cello concert by German soloist, Maris Kliegel, who played on the film’s soundtrack.
I am Dina will be released in France on 9 April onto 80 screens while Gaïa Presse are planning a special reprint of an extra 10,000 copies (on top of the 25,000 already sold) of Herbjorg Wassmo’s book on which the film is based. I am Dina was seen by over 630,000 Scandinavians and licensed to some 70 territories around the world.

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