WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
synopsis
The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose their father and inherit his second-hand bookshop. One day Alice enters the shop with her little daughter...
| international title: | Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself |
| original title: | Wilbur begegår selvmord |
| country: | Denmark, United Kingdom |
| year: | 2002 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Lone Scherfig |
| film run: | 106' |
| release date: | DK 08/11/2002, FI 06/03/2003, NO 23/05/2003, DE 19/09/2003, CH 25/09/2003, NL 13/11/2003, ES 27/02/2004, UK 05/12/2003, AT 19/12/2003 |
| screenplay: | Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen |
| cast: | Adrian Rawlins, James Sieves, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen |
| cinematography by: | John Johansson |
| film editing: | Gerd Tjur |
| art director: | Jette Lehmann |
| costumes designer: | Francoise Nicolet |
| music: | Joachim Holbek |
| producer: | Sisse Graum Jørgensen |
| production: | Zentropa Entertainments, TV2 Denmark, Egmont, Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Fund (UK), Sveriges Television (SE), Les Films du Losange (FR), Nordic Film & Television Fund |
| backing: | DFI (Danish Film Institute) + New Danish Screen |
| distributor: | Egmont Entertainment A/S, Ottfilm (DE), Columbia TriStar (NO), Frenetic Film (CH), A-Film Distribution (NL), Golem (ES), Icon Film Distribution (UK), Filmladen (AT) |
