be disinfected when they shoot a film in northern Norway. „Depardieu will be travelling back and forth between Bodoe and Paris several times in the spring and summer. Will he be disinfected every time?“ one farmer asked.

Depardieu is to star in the film „I am Dina“, based on a novel by Norwegian Herbjoerg Wassmo about poverty in rural Norway. Many locals will be extras in filming due to last until June. „Yesterday our eldest son came home after trying out costumes for the film company. He got the costumes from some French costume workers,“ farmers Oddbjoern and Astrid Olsen told the north Norwegian daily Nordlands Framtid. „Now we‘re refusing to let our son go into the barn“, they said. The Olsens‘ farm is beside the film set at Kjerringoey. Norway closed its borders to imports of European Union meat and products on Wednesday in a bid to avert the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has hit livestock in Britain and

France. The highly infectious disease affects cloven-hooved animals such as cows, sheep and pigs and can be carried on clothing, vehicle tyres, by the wind or even by migrating birds.

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