Goteborg: Anticipated Nordic titles presented to industry.
A host of anticipated Nordic features were pitched to industry this week at the Works In Progress strand of the Gothenburg Film Festival.
Potential buyers and sellers heard about upcoming projects from directors including Antti Jokinen, Lisa Aschan and Mads Matthiesen.
Swedish outfit GarageFilm International is producing Aschan’s horror White People, currently in post-production.
Vera Vitali, Pernilla August and Issaka Sawadogo star in the feature about a woman’s clash with a corrupt head of security.
Aschan’s debut She Monkey’s received a special mention at the Berlinale and won Gothenburg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
Solar Films’ period war-romance Wildeye, currently in post-production, comes from acclaimed Finnish features and music video director Antti Jokinen, best known for drama Purge and Hilary Swank starrer The Resident.
Set against the historical backdrop of The Lapland War in 1944-1945, Wildeye charts the story of a midwife who falls...
A host of anticipated Nordic features were pitched to industry this week at the Works In Progress strand of the Gothenburg Film Festival.
Potential buyers and sellers heard about upcoming projects from directors including Antti Jokinen, Lisa Aschan and Mads Matthiesen.
Swedish outfit GarageFilm International is producing Aschan’s horror White People, currently in post-production.
Vera Vitali, Pernilla August and Issaka Sawadogo star in the feature about a woman’s clash with a corrupt head of security.
Aschan’s debut She Monkey’s received a special mention at the Berlinale and won Gothenburg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
Solar Films’ period war-romance Wildeye, currently in post-production, comes from acclaimed Finnish features and music video director Antti Jokinen, best known for drama Purge and Hilary Swank starrer The Resident.
Set against the historical backdrop of The Lapland War in 1944-1945, Wildeye charts the story of a midwife who falls...
- 1/31/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Tordenskiold
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz // Writer: Erlend Loe
Danish director Genz is best known for his 2008 film Terribly Happy, which earned him comparison to the Coen Bros. and David Lynch. This past year, he made the underwhelming English language debut, Good People, which came and went without making any conversation. We’re excited to see him return to Denmark about an 18th century naval hero. Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride.
Cast: Jakob Oftebro, Martin Buch, Leonora Ployart
Producer: Nimbus Films’ Lars Bredo Rahbek (Itsi Bitsi)
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: With filming well underway, it’s hard to say where this will premiere,...
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz // Writer: Erlend Loe
Danish director Genz is best known for his 2008 film Terribly Happy, which earned him comparison to the Coen Bros. and David Lynch. This past year, he made the underwhelming English language debut, Good People, which came and went without making any conversation. We’re excited to see him return to Denmark about an 18th century naval hero. Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride.
Cast: Jakob Oftebro, Martin Buch, Leonora Ployart
Producer: Nimbus Films’ Lars Bredo Rahbek (Itsi Bitsi)
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: With filming well underway, it’s hard to say where this will premiere,...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki) plays the titular Danish-Norwegian Vice-Admiral
Henrik Ruben Genz is now shooting Tordenskiold, a drama about the famous 18th-century naval hero.
Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki) plays the titular Danish-Norwegian Vice-Admiral Tordenskiold who was something of a rock star war veteran of his day, and who is still well known throughout Scandinavia.
Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet (Martin Buch) persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride. The cast also features Leonora Ployart.
“Tordenskiold is a towering legend in our shared Danish-Norwegian history,” said Genz, whose credits include Terribly Happy. “One thing about Tordenskiold always piqued my curiosity – his death! Tordenskiold dies at age 30 in an apparently accidental and pathetic duel. Why did this great hero end his days so...
Henrik Ruben Genz is now shooting Tordenskiold, a drama about the famous 18th-century naval hero.
Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki) plays the titular Danish-Norwegian Vice-Admiral Tordenskiold who was something of a rock star war veteran of his day, and who is still well known throughout Scandinavia.
Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet (Martin Buch) persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride. The cast also features Leonora Ployart.
“Tordenskiold is a towering legend in our shared Danish-Norwegian history,” said Genz, whose credits include Terribly Happy. “One thing about Tordenskiold always piqued my curiosity – his death! Tordenskiold dies at age 30 in an apparently accidental and pathetic duel. Why did this great hero end his days so...
- 10/16/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Producer Lars Bredo Rahbek of Copenhagen’s Nimbus Film, whose Itsi Bitsi screened premiered at Tiff last night, is now developing a big-screen adaptation of In Search of a Distant Voice by author Taichi Yamada.
The film’s setting will be transplanted from Tokyo to Copenhagen and director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm is attached to direct and working on the first draft of the script now.
The novel, first published in 1986, is well known in Japan and was translated into English in 2006.
Rahbek told Screen: “It’s a mixture of a drama with a ghost story. It also suits the talents of Samanou very well.”
“Sometimes I get envious that you can see certain genres of film like horror or ghost stories that are hard to envision in a small, modern country such as Denmark,” the producer, who is a fluent Japanese speaker, tells Screen. “I was scouting to see how we could bring elements of that...
The film’s setting will be transplanted from Tokyo to Copenhagen and director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm is attached to direct and working on the first draft of the script now.
The novel, first published in 1986, is well known in Japan and was translated into English in 2006.
Rahbek told Screen: “It’s a mixture of a drama with a ghost story. It also suits the talents of Samanou very well.”
“Sometimes I get envious that you can see certain genres of film like horror or ghost stories that are hard to envision in a small, modern country such as Denmark,” the producer, who is a fluent Japanese speaker, tells Screen. “I was scouting to see how we could bring elements of that...
- 9/7/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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