THE GENTLE PAIN
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 |