Danes say no to film
HZPA Copenhagen The controversial Brit-ieh-made television film, “Death of a Princess,” will not be- seen on Danish television, the . Danish Broacasting System has announced. • ; The system’s programme director, Mr Hans Joergen Jensen, said the decision not to screen the fictionalised documentary, which relates the forbidden love affair of a Saudi princess with a commoner, and their subsequent execution, had been taken
purely on quality grounds. He added that the head of Danish television programming, Werner, Svendsen, had seeii ‘‘Death of a Princess” at the Cannes festival and judged it to be high on sensation and low on education. Saudi Arabia has reacteo angrily against the. film, threatening economic sanctions against countries in which it is screened. No decision has yet been made as to whether the film will be shown in New Zealand.
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