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THE GENTLE PAIN

by Carsten Brandt

synopsis

A film director fights his way through a blizzard to a house that once belonged to a world-famous author, Thorkild Hansen (1927-1989). The director breaks into the house and steals copious amounts of material he takes with him to a hideout in a small Swedish cinema. The director spends months in a desperate struggle to come to grips with the vast material as he attempts to turn it into the poetic, painful film he has dreamed of making for so many years. The peace and quiet in which he expects to work is interrupted by a Swedish woman, who has also hidden away in the town since the breakup of her marriage.

international title: The Gentle Pain
original title: Den Milde smerte
country: Denmark, Sweden
sales agent: Posthus Teatret (DK)
year: 2008
genre: fiction
directed by: Carsten Brandt
film run: 280'
release date: DK 14/05/2014
screenplay: Carsten Brandt
cast: Ewa Fröling, Caspar Phillipson, Michelle Sarah Guetta, Laure Calamy, Kasper Leisner, Rut Cronström, Erik Thors, Tine Blichmann, Bryan Souders, Kirstine Brandt, Mikkel Faartoft, Helene Gross, Misha Ringgaard
cinematography by: Jean-Yves Dion
film editing: Sigudur Sverrir Pálsson
art director: Klaus Kristensen, Jean le Goff
music: Stig Christensen
producer: Tom Winther, Ulf Berggren
production: Posthus Teatret ApS, Ulf Berggren Production
backing: DFI (Danish Film Institute) + New Danish Screen, Swedish Film Institute/Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), DR TV, Roy Andersson Studio 24
distributor: Posthus Teatret ApS

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