04-03-2016

The History of Love Starts Selling

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    Radu Mihaileanu Radu Mihaileanu credit: Libra Film

    CLUJ-NAPOCA: The History of Love, the English-language debut of the Romanian-born France-based filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu and the first international production using the Romanian town of Cluj-Napoca as a location, was sold by Wild Bunch in several territories.

    During Berlinale’s EFM, deals have been cut with European territories such as Germany, Italy, Benelux, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and ex-Yugoslavia, and also with Central and Latin America, South Korea and Canada.

    The film is adapting the bestseller of Nicole Kraus and stars Gemma Arterton, Derek Jacobi, Sophie Nelisse and Elliott Gould.

    Marc Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault are producing through France’s 2.4.7. Films in coproduction with Mihaileanu through Oï Oï Oï Productions and Tudor Giurgiu and Oana Giurgiu through Romania’s Libra Film. The project was supported from Romania by the Romanian National Film Center (CNC).

    After shooting one and a half months in Montréal and one week in New York, The History of Love, moved to Romania starting 25 July 2015 and was shot for two weeks in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. Transilvania IFF, which was founded by Cluj-born Tudor Giurgiu, aims at creating an emerging film region in Transilvania.

    According to Tudor Giurgiu, chances are that the film would be seen in Cannes and at Transilvania International Film Festival in 2016.