PARIS -- Raoul Ruiz will return to his Chilean roots with Livre a Rendre (A Book of Influence), Elezevir Films, the French co-producers of the 3.2 million ($3.8 million) French-Italian-Spanish-Romanian project, said Friday. The film, which starts in 1932 with a chance encounter between a Chilean pilot and a 10-year-old boy, explores a theme close to writer-director Ruiz's heart. A former political activist, Ruiz fled his native Chile in 1973 to seek exile in Paris. The project unfolds over decades to span the horrors of World War II, in which the pilot participates, to the atrocities of the Pinochet era. It will star Bernard Giraudeau, who played in Ruiz's That Day, Spanish actress Marisa Paredes and French actors Gregoire Colin and Marianne Denicourt. The European co-production, which has received funding from film finance body Eurimages, will be shot in France and Romania starting March 2004. Co-producers include Denis Carot and Marie Masmonteil for Paris-based Elzevir Films; Spanish producer Marta Esteban, who recently set up new production company Impossible Films; Paulo Maria Spina of Italy's Revolver; and Ion Marinescu of Romania's Atlantis Film.
- 11/28/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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