The packaging of Hungarian director Marta Mészáros' new $1.8 million feature, Kisvilma (Little Vilma), was completed yesterday at the European Film Market, following a meeting between the three co-production partners, Philippe Maynal, of France's d'Images Nouvelles, Bernd Hellthaler, of Germany's Euroarts International, and Karoly Makk, of Hungary's UJ Dialog.
Judit Sugár of Budapest-based S-media 2000, brought in the German side to the project, which is considered a prequel to Mészáros' trilogy of Diary for My Children, Diary for My Loves, Diary for My Father and Mother, which has been sold worldwide.
To be shot in July on a six-week schedule in Khirgisia, Kisvilma is set in the 1930s, during the Stalinist era, when komintern members from all over the world came to Russia. Many of them were exiled, including Mészáros' father - a sculptor, who was later executed - and mother, and herself, living with Germans, Spaniards and Italians, all communicating in Russian.
The film follows an Italian girl, who decides to go back to find her father's grave in Khirgisia, with flashbacks depicting the life among the exiles. When scouting locations in Khirgisia, Mészáros found her father's old house. JRJ
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