The Broken Circle Breakdown - H 2013
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BERLIN — The Match Factory has notched several major territory deals for Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, one of this year’s Berlin Film Festival’s true crowd-pleasers.
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The drama has sold to more than 20 territories including Germany (Pandora Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), France (Bodega), Australia/New Zealand (EOne), Greece (Seven Films), Poland (Against Gravity), Ex-Yugoslavia (Demiurg), Sweden (Njutafilms), and South Korea (SY Comad).
The drama focuses on the love story between two very different people — one a religious realist, the other a romantic atheist — whose love and faith is tested when their daughter is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
It has proved a hit with critics — the Europa Cinemas group of art house cinema owners gave it its best European film honor — as well as audiences. Berlin viewers voted it the best fiction film in the Panorama section of the Berlinale last week.
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