Kris Thykier's PeaPie Films has snapped up feature rights to Kurban Said's tome "
Ali and Nino," which will be adapted by "A Dangerous Method" and "Dangerous Liaisons" scribe Christopher Hampton.
The love story, first published in 1937 and set in Azerbaijan in 1914, follows Ali, a Muslim with his ancestors' passion for the desert, and Nino, a Christian Georgian girl with sophisticated European ways.