MADRID -- Spanish sales consortium, the Pi Group, has licensed all U.S. rights to "Los novios bulgaros," (Bulgarian Lovers) to TLA Releasing.
A recent Berlin Fest Panorama player, "Novios" is the second film in 17 years from one of Spain's most radical film-makers, Eloy de la Iglesia, whose contempo social mellers were championed by the Spanish left in the 1970s and 1980s.
"Los novios" turns on the destructive relationship between a 40-year-old gay lawyer in Madrid and his 23-year-old Bulgarian boyfriend.
Pic is based on the novel of the same title by Eduardo Mendicutti and toplines Fernando Guillen Cuervo, Ditran Biba and Pepon Nieto.
"Los novios" is produced by Altube Filmeak, Cuervo Films, Cartel and Conexion Sur.
In separate deals, Pi has also sold Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman's sapphic laffer "A mi madre le gusta las mujeres" (My Mother Likes Women), starring Leonor Watling ("Talk to Her"), to CNC for Benelux and SBS for Australia.
Broadening its already weighty sales catalogue, which taps titles from Enrique Cerezo P.C., BocaBoca Producciones, Globomedia and Cartel, Pi will also handle worldwide sales on three films helmed by Jaime Camino: "El largo invierno" (1989) toplining Vittorio Gassman, "Luces y sombras" with Angela Molina, and the Lucia Bose starrer, "Un invierno en Mallorca."
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