Hollywood Screens Movie about Libya-Jailed Bulgarian Medics in 2009
January 16th, 2008
By 2009 Hollywood will screen a movie telling the story of the Bulgarian medics who spent eight years in Lybia’s jails, producers announced in Sofia. At a press conference, Richard Harding and Sam Feuer from Sixth Sense Productions said the movie’s initial title is The Benghazi Six. The top producers added that the script is to be written in 2008 and will center on the love story between doctor Zdravko Georgiev and the nurse Christiana Valcheva thrown in jail during a controversial AIDS trial.
The movie is going to be shot mainly in Sofia but the cast is not clear yet. Harding said he hopes stars like Angelina Jolie, Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchet to play some of the main characters.
The six Bulgarian medics were present at the conference and said they will help the producers to create a reliable story.
“We were deeply moved by the story of these wonderful people and their unity during the times of hardship,” Harding said. The Hollywood producers refused to announce the budget of the new film but said it will be much bigger than the budget of the historical drama Hotel Rwanda that they produced in 2004 and for which USD 18 M was spent.
