LA-based, Czech-born producer Evzen Kolar told Moving Pictures that he is to bring two Kolar feature projects to be produced in the country he left 25 years ago.

From an original screenplay by Marilyn Levy, Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) will direct Sabina, which will shoot early next year in Prague. The turn-of-the century story takes place in Vienna and Zürich, but 90% of the US$14 million production will lens in the Czech Republic.

"It is a fascinating story of a mentally ill young girl who is sent to the first psychoanalytical clinic in the world, which is run by Karl Jung," said Kolar. "She is not only cured, but enters an intense relationship - intellectually and sexually - with Jung who is married and has two children." Val Kilmer is in talks for the lead.

Later in 1997 Peter Medak (Romeo is Bleeding) will come to Prague to direct Hunter's Moon from Tom O'Rourke's original screenplay. Set in the final days of the Second World War, the US$20 million feature is the story of an American and a German army detective, uniting against all odds to track down a serial killer.

Hunter's Moon was originally in the hands of John Irvin, arriving here for the competition screening of A Month by the Lake, but he swapped for Ken Solarz's City of Industry, which Kolar currently has in postproduction. A contemporary film noir, the film of betrayal and revenge stars Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, and Timothy Hutton; Largo Entertainment will release in February 1997.

"I was rather disappointed at the general animosity against American Cinema expressed at the jury press conference," said Kolar. "I consider myself a US producer, but there are two sorts of film coming from America - studio and independent product. And I think the festival in Prague should be where indie European and American producers and directors have a chance to meet."

Jørn Rossing Jensen

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