The inability to get “The Passion of the Christ” distributed in France is a marketing tactic by the film’s producers, one of France’s top distributors said. Marin Karmitz, president of France’s National Federation of Film Distributors, said it is unprecedented that French distributors had not been invited to see a full version of Mel Gibson’s film.
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