European Films

An unusual European co-production reunites Norway, Germany and Spain: The Orange Girl, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author of the bestselling philosophical novel Sophie's World. Director Eva Dahr (Mars & Venus) will film the story of a 15-year-old boy, Georg, who receives a letter from his father, who died 11 years earlier of cancer. In the letter he describes falling in love with life, Georg's mother and, later, with his little son before wondering if it was worth living when faced with cancer. His father's search for a girl across Europe in 1982 is a central part of the narrative. Filming has started in Norway, where locations include Finse and Oslo, while Dahr will also film abroad, in Cologne and Seville.