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Cannes (dpa) - Danes and Cubans are getting together to film the latest novel by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the publication Screen International reported on Sunday in its special Cannes film festival issue.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, a story about the obsession of a 90-year-old man with a 14-year-old prostitute, will be directed by veteran Danish film maker Henning Carlsen, with the Cuban Film Institute poised to participate in the project.
According to the Danish-based Crone Film, which is packaging the movie, shooting will begin in Cuba in early 2007. Garcia Marquez is a close friend of Cuban President Fidel Castro and will consult on the film.
Carlsen is best known for his adaptation of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, which won Per Oscarsson a best actor award at Cannes.
Garcia Marquez, the author of the international best-seller 100 Years of Solitude, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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