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HOLLYWOOD PICKS TITLE FOR BULGARIA’S MEDICS FILM
09:01 Wed 22 Aug 2007
 

The title of the film dedicated to the six Bulgarian medics who spent eight years in Libyan prison has already been announced.

The film will be called The Benghazi Six, avtora.com reported.

Bulgaria’s medics were accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV. They were twice sentenced to death, but the verdict was ultimately commutated to life imprisonment and the six were transferred to Bulgaria under a Bulgarian-Libyan judicial contract. Bulgarian President Georgi Pruvanov pardoned them immediately after their arrival home.

The main crew to shoot the movie is still unknown, avtora.com said.

Sixth Sense, one of the largest companies in Hollywood, will produce the film. The company is the producer of the Oscar-nominated Hotel Rwanda.

The film will tell the story of the innocent medics, while also focusing on the infected children.

Sixth Sense president Sam Feuer told Reuters that the world needed to know about the fate of the medics. It was not only a Bulgarian story, it was a human story through which the world could be made wiser, he said.

Sixth Sense is in negotiations with The Chronicles of Narnia script writer Ann Peacock to write the scenario.

 
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Comments by Gordon Wade - 01:37 22 Aug 2007
What do you want to bet Tom Cruise will play the Palestinian doctor?
Comments by Ian McDonald - 14:17 22 Aug 2007
I live in Ireland and only became aware of the Medics plight two years ago. I have followed the story through the Sofia Echo which I receive daily by e-mail. I am glad to note that a film is now being made which, no doubt, will highlight the injustice of this case and will, hopefully, leave the audience in no doubt as to who was to blame. I have every sympathy for the children infected and their families and I hope the the other victims, that is the Medics, can get their lives back together.
 
 
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