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Susanne Bier's Dogme film Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts) is released. Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter and Paprika Steen star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Denmark 2002: Other Films of Note |
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Lone Scherfig) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lars von Trier's Dogville is released. Nicole Kidman stars as a woman on the run in 1930s America who seeks refuge in the remote town of Dogville. The film is shot on a bare stage with buildings drawn in chalk and the actors miming many of their actions. Paul Bettany also stars. [MORE] [ADD] |
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De Grønne slagtere (The Green Butchers) (Anders Thomas Jensen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Rembrandt (Jannik Johansen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Brødre (Brothers) (Susanne Bier) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Adams æbler (Adam’s Apples (Anders Thomas Jensen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Susanne Bier’s Efter Brylluppet (After the Wedding) is released. Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas all feature. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nordisk Film buys 50% of the shares in rival production company Zentropa. [MORE] |
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| 12/6 - |
Culture Minister Brian Mikkelsen opens the Danish Film Institute's £4.25 million underground vault in Hillerod, which will house 6,800 nitrate films including classics by Carl Theodor Dreyer and D. W. Griffith and the first Danish film with sound, Schneevoigt's 'Præsten i Vejlby' from 1931. [MORE] |
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| 2/9 - |
Jacob Jorgensen’s JJ Film announces that Queen Margrethe II will write the script for a short film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Wild Swans. [MORE] |
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The Danish Film Institute starts a fund entitled Rafilm (Raw Film) to finance low budget films (under $2 million) with limited appeal that are required to reach an audience of only 75,000. [MORE] |
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Henrik Ruben Genz’s offbeat thriller Terribly Happy wins seven awards including the Best Film award at the Danish Film Academy’s 2009 Robert Awards in Copenhagen. [MORE] |
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Henrik Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy wins five awards, including Best Danish Film, at the 61st Bodil Awards in Copenhagen. [MORE] |
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Lars Von Trier’s controversial Antichrist wins seven awards at the Robert Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Design and Best Special Effects. Lars Mikkelsen wins Best Actor for Headhunter while Henning Moritzen wins Best Supporting Actor for the same film. Up is named Best US Film, while Slumdog Millionaire wins the Best non-US Foreign Film prize. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 22/3 - |
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist wins five awards at this year’s Bodil Awards ceremony, including Best Danish Film. However, von Trier doesn’t attend the ceremony, and the award is collected on his behalf by his wife, Bente. [MORE] |
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Janus Metz’s controversial documentary Armadillo, which won the Grand Prix in Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival, tops the Danish box office. The film, which follows Danish soldiers in Afghanistan, features a scene in which the soldiers ambush and ‘finish off’ five Taliban that prompts a military enquiry into their actions. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 31/12 - | Released just two weeks before the end of the year, Casper Christensen's Clown: The Movie, a screen version of a popular TV show, becomes the biggest Danish film of the year and becomes one of the five most successful films of all time. [ADD] | |||