Drabet (2005)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Per Fly

Writers:

Per Fly (writer)
Dorthe Warnø Høgh (writer)
(more)

Release Date:

26 August 2005 (Denmark)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman. |

Plot Keywords:

Denmark | Middle Class | Third Part

Awards:

7 wins & 13 nominations

Cast

Jesper Christensen	...	Carsten
Pernilla August	...	Nina
Charlotte Fich	...	Lisbeth
Beate Bille	...	Pil
Vibeke Hastrup	...	Jette
Julie Ølgaard	...	Lærke
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Samy Andersen	...	Politiassistent
Lars Bangsholt	...	Journalist
Melany Denise	...	Supporter of Court Case
Kurt Dreyer	...	Dommer
Mogens Holm	...	Fængselbetjente
Jesper Hyldegaard	...	Fængselspræst
Joel Hyrland	...	Family member
Mads Keiser	...	Lars
Magnus Polar Kjær	...	Mikkel (as Magnus Kjær)
Henrik Larsen	...	Forsvarsadvokat
Susanne Lessel	...	Fængselbetjente
Jakob Ulrik Lohmann	...	Politiassistent (as Jacob Lohmann)
John Martinus	...	Boghandler
Jan Meyer	...	Dingo
Lars Mogelberg	...	Police officer
Michael Moritzen	...	Poul
Vivian Nielsen	...	Kriminalassistant
Birgitte Prins	...	Fængselbetjente
Bodil Sangill	...	Lisbeths mor
Morten Thunbo	...	Civil betjent
Thomas Voss	...	Tobias / The son
Mads Wille	...	Peter

Directed by
Per Fly

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Per Fly		writer
Dorthe Warnø Høgh		writer
Kim Leona		writer
Mogens Rukov		writer

Produced by
Anna Anthony	....	co-producer
Gillian Berrie	....	co-producer
Peter Garde	....	executive producer
Marianne Jul Hansen	....	line producer
Peter Aalbæk Jensen	....	executive producer
Turid Øversveen	....	co-producer
Ib Tardini	....	producer

Original Music by
Halfdan E

Cinematography by
Harald Gunnar Paalgard		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Morten Giese

Casting by
Marie Louise Hedegaard		(as Rie Hedegaard Fenger)
Lene Seested
Jette Termann

Production Design by
Søren Gam

Costume Design by
Louize Nissen

Makeup Department
Kamilla Bjerglind	....	makeup department head
Morten Jacobsen	....	special makeup effects artist
Theo Mayes	....	key makeup artist
Lili Malene Rasmussen	....	assistant makeup artist
Soile Valpuri Lutjonen	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Christine Ekstrand	....	post-production manager
Carsten Sparwath	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Anders Barlebo	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Arvid Berg-Ørnbak	....	property master
Sune Elskær	....	storyboard artist
Lars Fog-Møller	....	props
Camilla Hjersing	....	assistant props
Søren Jochumsen	....	carpenter
Søren Lundborg	....	carpenter
Birgitte Thiesen	....	painter

Sound Department
Alex Hudd	....	sound consultant: dolby
Jonas Langkilde	....	boom operator
Christian Howard Lund	....	foley recordist (as Christian H. Lund)
Hans Møller	....	sound designer
Kasper Munck-Hansen	....	boom operator
Julien Naudin	....	foley artist
Mick Raaschou	....	sound designer

Special Effects by
Lars Andersen	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Morten Bartholdy	....	visual effects
Søren Buus	....	visual effects
Niels Valentin Dal	....	visual effects (as Niels Valentin)
Søren Tomas	....	visual effects

Stunts
Stig Günther	....	stunt coordinator
Janek Lesniak	....	stunts
Marcus Malmqvist	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Per Arnesen	....	still photographer
Jakob Bonfils	....	camera operator
Magnus Sort Eidemark	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera
Edvard Friis-Moeller	....	Steadicam operator
Edvard Friis-Moeller	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Claus Langtved Johansen	....	video assistant
Anders Leegaard	....	first assistant camera
Sune Lolk	....	best boy electric
Aslak Lytthans	....	gaffer
Niels Kjær Olsen	....	lighting assistant
Morten Schultz	....	video assistant
Søren Sielemann	....	electrician
Jannik Weylandt	....	best boy electric

Casting Department
Lena Paaske	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sara Mau Jensen	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Stefan Ciupek	....	digital colorist
Cecilie Ross Gaardbo Eegehauge	....	post-production assistant (as Cecilie Eegehauge)
Christine Ekstrand	....	post-production assistant
Richard Pilmore	....	color grader: UK
Ludivine Saes	....	assistant editor
Mette Walter	....	post-production assistant

Music Department
Nicholas Dodd	....	conductor
Maj-Britt Kramer	....	orchestrator
Mikkel Maltha	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Marianne Ahrne	....	film consultant: Swedish Film Institute
John Allaker	....	laboratory coordinator: UK
Lina Bach Christensen	....	production assistant
Mick Barham	....	laboratory coordinator: UK
Rasmus Christoffersen	....	location assistant
Birgitte Clasen	....	accountant
Carrie Comerford	....	production executive: UK
Anna Duffield	....	assistant to producer: UK
Lillian Rype Fokdal	....	script supervisor
Christoffer Harding	....	location scout
Thomas Kelly	....	runner
Ann Køj	....	production accountant
Kasper Kristoffersen	....	runner assistance
Elisabeth Victoria Poulsen	....	assistant to producer
Thomas Schindel	....	production coordinator
Ann Vognsen	....	production accountant (as Anse Vognsen)
Sarah Wells	....	production accountant: UK

Production Companies

• 4 1/2 Film (co-production)
• Spillefilmkompaniet 4 1/2 (co-production)
• Zentropa Entertainments

Distributors

• Les Films du Losange (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Nordisk Film Biografdistribution (2005) (worldwide) (all media)
• One Plus One (2006) (France) (video) (DVD)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2008) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• EF Rental  equipment
• Mac Million Ltd.  post-production
• Mainstream ApS  sound studio
• Whitfield Street Studios  music recording studio

Also Known As:

Manslaughter (USA) (festival title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Denmark

Language:

Danish

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Denmark:15 | Sweden:11 | Iceland:12 | Germany:12

Company:

4 1/2 Film

Trivia:

The last part of director Per Fly's "class trilogy", following "Bænken" and "Arven".

Movie Connections:

Follows Bænken (2000)

Excellent film but too slow

For the last film in his trilogy Per Fly has made a very good film about the Danish middle class. For me the problem is that the two first films in his trilogy about the three Danish classes, Bænken (The Bench) and Arven (The Inheritance) were excellent, while this is just very good. For those not in the know about of Danish society, the Danish middle class is by far the largest class in Denmark and maybe the most boring -at least it seems that way in Per Fly's film. He may have a point but he certainly hammers it home with a lot of looooong, slow scenes. It works, as some of the scenes conveys very embarrassing moments for the characters and in the process makes you, the viewer, embarrassed as well. Still, that concept was better realised in Thomas Winterberg's "Festen (The Party)". The story in Drabet is based on a real life incident: In the 80's a group of seven well-educated middle class men with leftish leanings committed a series of robberies against banks and post offices all over Denmark and Sweden with the aim to acquire money and weapons for PFLP (the Palestinan Liberation Front, or maybe their mortal enemies The Liberation Front of Palestine - sorry, Monty Python reference there). At a robbery against a post office in central Copenhagen in 1988 they shot and killed a young policeman. The group was eventually caught and tried but since it couldn't be established who had fired the mortal shot, no one was sentenced for the murder. The whole group did serve jail time for the robberies but have been free since 1995 - not exactly a hard sentence for the person who pulled the trigger. It is certainly an interesting dilemma how you deal with killing someone - even if it's for a cause you think is just. As usual, the best Danish actor, Jesper Christensen, is doing a delightful job in the lead role, but I still feel the slow pace - even if it's artistically justified - drags a good film from excellent to very good. Still, I'm sure Per Fly's trilogy will stand as a beacon for Danish film-making for many years to come.