Queen Of Hearts star Trine Dyrholm plays woman who enlists in the army during World War One.
TF1 Studio has launched sales on Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz’s World War One drama Erna At War at the virtual Cannes market.
Top Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (Queen Of Hearts) stars as a mother whose mentally-challenged son is drafted into the army and sent to fight on the border between Denmark and Germany. In a bid to keep him safe, she disguises herself as a man, enrols and heads to the frontline.
The sales arm of French commercial TV giant TF1...
TF1 Studio has launched sales on Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz’s World War One drama Erna At War at the virtual Cannes market.
Top Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (Queen Of Hearts) stars as a mother whose mentally-challenged son is drafted into the army and sent to fight on the border between Denmark and Germany. In a bid to keep him safe, she disguises herself as a man, enrols and heads to the frontline.
The sales arm of French commercial TV giant TF1...
- 6/24/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Dyrholm recently won awards for her role in Sundance 2019 title ‘Queen Of Hearts’.
Danish star Trine Dyrholm will follow her award-winning role in Sundance award winner Queen Of Hearts by headlining the cast of Henrik Ruben Genz’s Erna At War.
She will play a powerful woman who tries to save her mentally disabled son during the First World War. The film is set in 1918, on the borderland between Germany and Denmark, where her son is mistakenly enrolled for the Prussian Army. She disguises herself as a man to join his regiment and keep her son safe.
The cast will...
Danish star Trine Dyrholm will follow her award-winning role in Sundance award winner Queen Of Hearts by headlining the cast of Henrik Ruben Genz’s Erna At War.
She will play a powerful woman who tries to save her mentally disabled son during the First World War. The film is set in 1918, on the borderland between Germany and Denmark, where her son is mistakenly enrolled for the Prussian Army. She disguises herself as a man to join his regiment and keep her son safe.
The cast will...
- 8/28/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz Writers: Henrik Ruben Genz, Dunja Gry Jensen (screenplay), Erling Jepsen (novel) Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia Robert (Jacob Cedergren), a police officer, is being transferred from Copenhagen to Skarrild (a very small village in rural Denmark) after having “just snapped” back in Copenhagen. Robert is being given a second chance in this land of mud, cows and rubber boots where “mojn” (meaning both hello and goodbye) is the typical salutation. Robert soon inherits a cat from previous Marshall who left it behind (the cat also seems to say “mojn”). People seem to just disappear here (the previous Marshall, owner of cycle shop). Does it have something to do with the bog? (In this part of Denmark, the water table is very high. Cows have been known to sink, stay under water for 6 months then give birth to a two-headed calf with human and cow heads…...
- 3/12/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy has been referred to on the festival circuit as a Danish version of a Coen Brothers film. On the surface level, that’s just about accurate. Telling the story of Robert Hansen, a Copenhagen cop who moves to the podunk town of South Jutland to decompress after a nervous breakdown, Happy has all the quirky pieces that show up in the work of the Coens.
But outside of a mutual love of noir conventions and screwball facets of human nature, Genz’s work is significantly different from films like Blood Simple and Barton Fink. The Coens create movies that vibrate with liveliness and a deep sense of dark humor. Terribly Happy is more morose and sardonic; there are no big laughs or surprising plot twists. Like the bog at the edge of Jutland, which swallows birds, animals, and sometimes people, this grim Danish drama sucks...
But outside of a mutual love of noir conventions and screwball facets of human nature, Genz’s work is significantly different from films like Blood Simple and Barton Fink. The Coens create movies that vibrate with liveliness and a deep sense of dark humor. Terribly Happy is more morose and sardonic; there are no big laughs or surprising plot twists. Like the bog at the edge of Jutland, which swallows birds, animals, and sometimes people, this grim Danish drama sucks...
- 3/5/2010
- by Nathan Bartlebaugh
- Atomic Popcorn
Henrik Ruben Genz's dark comedy "Terribly Happy", this year's Danish entry for the foreign language Oscar, is getting a $10-15 million budget English language remake reports Screen Daily.
The story is based on Erling Jepsen’s novel about a troubled police officer dispatched to a mysterious community on a swampy peninsula. Howard Rodman ("Savage Grace") will adapt the script for the remake.
Director Genz and his producer Thomas Gammeltoft will re-team in the same capacities on the new version which has three times the budget and will allow them to approach the material from a new point of view.
“I felt I wasn’t finished with the material and wanted to explore it further. When the opportunity for a remake came up I felt I couldn’t let go of this curiosity and energy that bound me to the material” says Genz.
Gammeltoft says the new version will allow...
The story is based on Erling Jepsen’s novel about a troubled police officer dispatched to a mysterious community on a swampy peninsula. Howard Rodman ("Savage Grace") will adapt the script for the remake.
Director Genz and his producer Thomas Gammeltoft will re-team in the same capacities on the new version which has three times the budget and will allow them to approach the material from a new point of view.
“I felt I wasn’t finished with the material and wanted to explore it further. When the opportunity for a remake came up I felt I couldn’t let go of this curiosity and energy that bound me to the material” says Genz.
Gammeltoft says the new version will allow...
- 2/15/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Remakes, remakes remakes...but is it a different scenario when the director of an acclaimed foreign film signs on to remake his own movie for English-speaking audiences? That's what's happening with Terribly Happy, the dark, Coen Brothers-flavored Danish film that cleaned up at the major Bodil Awards in 2009 and is Denmark's submission for the Foreign Language Oscar this year. Henrik Ruben Genz will remake his own film in English, giving him an opportunity to play with a bigger budget and take the story in new directions. Gentz was also the co-writer on the first version of the film, which is adapted from the novel of the same name by Erling Jepsen. (Well, the novel is called Frygtelig lykkelig, which is also the untranslated Danish name of the film.) The Us version is being written by Howard Rodman, and producer Carol Polakoff says that this is a chance to approach the...
- 2/15/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
A Nordic creepfest the Coen brothers might admire.
Jakob Cedergren in "Terribly Happy"
Photo: Oscilloscope Pictures
Talk about tough towns. The remote village that Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen finds himself transferred to in "Terribly Happy" is more than just unwelcoming: It's deeply creepy. The marshal who preceded Hansen in this one-man-police-force job has disappeared, for some unexplained reason, and the rustics who congregate at the local tavern whisper and leer whenever the new arrival walks in — they seem to know more about him than they really should. There's also a little girl who walks the empty streets in the dead of night pushing a baby-less stroller; and in a desolate bog on the outskirts of town, somebody's car is slowly sinking into the muck.
The movie is wonderfully warped. There are overtones of horror and noirish depravity that recall both the 1973 cult film "The Wicker Man" and Shirley Jackson's famous 1948 short story,...
Jakob Cedergren in "Terribly Happy"
Photo: Oscilloscope Pictures
Talk about tough towns. The remote village that Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen finds himself transferred to in "Terribly Happy" is more than just unwelcoming: It's deeply creepy. The marshal who preceded Hansen in this one-man-police-force job has disappeared, for some unexplained reason, and the rustics who congregate at the local tavern whisper and leer whenever the new arrival walks in — they seem to know more about him than they really should. There's also a little girl who walks the empty streets in the dead of night pushing a baby-less stroller; and in a desolate bog on the outskirts of town, somebody's car is slowly sinking into the muck.
The movie is wonderfully warped. There are overtones of horror and noirish depravity that recall both the 1973 cult film "The Wicker Man" and Shirley Jackson's famous 1948 short story,...
- 2/12/2010
- MTV Movie News
One thing you certainly can say about Danish cinema is that filmmakers from Denmark tend to have very unique sensibilities in terms of look and tone unlike that of filmmakers from any other part of the world, including the United States. That's why it's so interesting to see a movie like the crime thriller Terribly Happy from filmmaker Henrik Ruben Genz, which has elements of those Danish sensibilities but a look and feel like some of the great thrillers of the '70s like Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs to the horror classic The Wicker Man , as well as the likes of Hitchcock and the Coen Brothers. Based on the novel by Genz's childhood friend Erling Jepsen ("The Art of Crying"), the suspenseful film stars Jakob Cedergren as Robert Hanson, a police officer from...
- 2/2/2010
- Comingsoon.net
By Harvey Karten - Sophisticated moviegoers know that January is the month that finds the big Hollywood studios dumping their turkeys on the public. This notorious reputation, however, does not apply to indies released by smaller studios or foreign offerings, many of which can be as compelling as the celluloid released during the prestigious months of November and December. .Terribly Happy. is, happily, one of those foreign pictures good enough to be Oscar-considered: in fact it is Denmark.s entry into the Academy Awards race for movies distributed during 2009.
While the bloated, $450 million .Avatar. is breaking records on IMAX screens and just about everywhere in the free world, a patron can gain just as much satisfaction from a far, far lower-budgeted choice like .Frygtelig lykkelig,. as Henrik Ruben Genz.s feature is known in its original Danish.
Oscilloscope Pictures
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B+
Directed by:...
While the bloated, $450 million .Avatar. is breaking records on IMAX screens and just about everywhere in the free world, a patron can gain just as much satisfaction from a far, far lower-budgeted choice like .Frygtelig lykkelig,. as Henrik Ruben Genz.s feature is known in its original Danish.
Oscilloscope Pictures
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B+
Directed by:...
- 1/6/2010
- Arizona Reporter
Final Cut Prods.
NEW YORK -- This slice of Nordic doom and gloom envelops the gruesome behavior of its subjects in a jaunty charm. The story of a dysfunctional family with a tyrannical, child-abusing father ambles along like a gentle pastoral tale. The clash of style and subject matter ultimately proves quite startling, as does the movie's capacity for meting out forgiveness. But its relentlessly despairing tone will make it a hard sell overseas. The Danish film screened at the EFP New York Industry Screenings.
The Art of Crying, directed by Peter Schonau Fog from a novel by Erling Jepsen, is told from the point of view of 11-year-old Allan (Jannik Lorenzen). Allan is in the thrall of his unsavory father, Papa (Jesper Asholt), who suffers from an inferiority complex and bullies his two children. Papa uses Allan to keep tabs on daughter Sanne (Julie Kolbeck), especially when she's dating. Suspicions about Papa's overzealous investigations into Sanne's romances are confirmed when he's revealed as an incestuous child molester.
The script, by Bo Hr Hansen, cleverly expresses the nonjudgmental view of a child who doesn't know any better. Allan doesn't realize that there's anything wrong with his family and is quite proud of his father until it dawns on him that Papa's relationship with Sanne is not quite right. The mother, played by Hanne Hedelund, is a study in cowardice, allowing the abuse to continue. The film also examines how rural isolation can build close-knit communities oblivious to general standards of right and wrong.
Performances are all above par, with Asholt managing to immerse himself in the role of a child abuser.
NEW YORK -- This slice of Nordic doom and gloom envelops the gruesome behavior of its subjects in a jaunty charm. The story of a dysfunctional family with a tyrannical, child-abusing father ambles along like a gentle pastoral tale. The clash of style and subject matter ultimately proves quite startling, as does the movie's capacity for meting out forgiveness. But its relentlessly despairing tone will make it a hard sell overseas. The Danish film screened at the EFP New York Industry Screenings.
The Art of Crying, directed by Peter Schonau Fog from a novel by Erling Jepsen, is told from the point of view of 11-year-old Allan (Jannik Lorenzen). Allan is in the thrall of his unsavory father, Papa (Jesper Asholt), who suffers from an inferiority complex and bullies his two children. Papa uses Allan to keep tabs on daughter Sanne (Julie Kolbeck), especially when she's dating. Suspicions about Papa's overzealous investigations into Sanne's romances are confirmed when he's revealed as an incestuous child molester.
The script, by Bo Hr Hansen, cleverly expresses the nonjudgmental view of a child who doesn't know any better. Allan doesn't realize that there's anything wrong with his family and is quite proud of his father until it dawns on him that Papa's relationship with Sanne is not quite right. The mother, played by Hanne Hedelund, is a study in cowardice, allowing the abuse to continue. The film also examines how rural isolation can build close-knit communities oblivious to general standards of right and wrong.
Performances are all above par, with Asholt managing to immerse himself in the role of a child abuser.
- 11/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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