Subotica's Flowers of Desire Greenlit for Production
FLOWERS OF DESIRE, which is Irish production company Subotica's latest feature, is due to go into pre-production in April and May. The romantic drama is then set to begin filming on Irish locations in Co. Wicklow and Dingle, Co. Kerry in June and July.
The Danish language co-production is written by Simon Staho (Day and Night) and Peter Birro (We Can be Heroes!) and will be directed by Staho.
Starring Ulrich Thomsen (Brothers, Centurion) and Sonja Richter (Open Hearts, Cecilie) the film centres around Thomsen's character, a former dancer who returns to his childhood country village to attend his mother's funeral. He discovers that his childhood sweetheart, played by Richter, still lives there and is trapped in an unhappy marriage with the town's priest (played by Peter Plaughborg) who is charged with his mother's murder. The dancer and his former lover secretly resume their liaison and slowly rekindle their old - and now forbidden - love.
Jonas Frederikssen (Open Hearts) will produce with Subotica's Tristan Orpen Lynch (Song for a Raggy Boy) and Aoife O'Sullivan (The Daisy Chain) and Anagram's Martin Persson (Forbidden Fruit). Bord Scannan na hEireann/the Irish Film Board is on board as a funder and executive producers include Peter Aalbeek Jensen (Dancer in the Dark) and Peter Garde (Dogville) of Danish production company, Zentropa.