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Oscar entry I Was Here scores at box office

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René Vilbre’s I Was Here [+see also:
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, this year’s Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominations, should be in the top 10 films in Estonia in 2008, with over 43,000 admissions since September 12.

The film, adapted for the screen by Ilmar Raag (director of The Class [+see also:
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) and based on the award-winning novel by Sass Henno, I Was Here: First Arrest, is “about growing up, about boys who start a game but don’t realize how serious it suddenly gets, nor that starting over is no longer possible,” said the filmmaker.

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The drama was produced by Riina Sildos (Amrion Film), Producer on the Move 2007, in co-production with Finland’s Helsinki Filmi. Vilbre and Sildos’ previous collaboration on Mat the Cat was also a domestic hit in 2005 (30,000 admissions for a fifth position at the top ten).

Sildos is in pre-production on Raag’s new film, One More Croissant, co-produced by France’s TS Production. Shooting is scheduled for 2009.

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