The Danish Poet - A love story
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Danish Poet - A love story |
| Original title | Den danske dicteren The Danish Poet |
| Country of production |
Norway Canada |
| original language |
Norwegian English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Torill Kove |
| script | Torill Kove |
| production |
Lise Fearnley for Microfilm AS, Marcy Page for the National Film Board of Canada |
| music | Kevin Dean |
| cut | Phyllis Lewis |
The Danish Poet is a Norwegian-Canadian animated short film directed by Torill Kove in 2006.
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The narrator used to think that all life came from space and was created purely by chance. In fact, her parents met after a series of coincidences. It all began in the apartment of the Danish poet Kasper Jørgensen in Copenhagen . He suffers from writer's block and therefore visits the psychiatrist Dr. Mørg, who advises him to take a vacation in Norway . While researching Norway, Kasper comes across a portrait of the Danish-Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Sigrid Undset . He is reading her novel Kristin Lavransdatter , an epic story about a young woman who has been promised to a man but who marries another against the will of her father and has an unhappy life. Kasper then wrote Sigrid a letter asking if she could visit her in Norway for inspiration. She agrees.
He travels to Norway and stays with foreign Norwegians during a rain shower. He falls in love with her daughter Ingeborg. However, she cannot marry him as she is promised to someone else, as is the case with Kristin Lavransdatter . When he said goodbye, Ingeborg handed Kasper a strand of hair and promised to let her hair grow until they were reunited. Kasper returns to Denmark without visiting Sigrid Undset. He is depressed and only writes sad poems that nobody wants to read, and Ingeborg is also unhappy in her marriage and her hair is meters long. When her unloved husband is killed by a cow, Ingeborg is free for Kasper. The letter that is supposed to tell him this is lost by the postman . Ingeborg's hair continues to grow and she lives alone with her hair weaver Veslamei until Sigrid Undset dies one day. Ingeborg and Kasper meet again at Sigrid's funeral, hug each other and live together from then on. Kasper has found his zest for life again and publishes a volume of poetry with the title Joy and Happiness .
When Kasper stumbles over Ingeborg's hair one day and breaks his thumb, Ingeborg sends Veslamei to Copenhagen. Veslamei meets the writer Peter on the train, who wants to meet his favorite author Kasper Jørgensen in town for inspiration. Veslamei cuts Ingeborg's hair and falls in love with Peter. Some time later, their child is born - the narrator of the film, who now enumerates the numerous coincidences that have led to her existence.
production
The Danish Poet was published on February 15, 2006. The film took about three years to complete, with director Kove drawing half of the film herself. The film is traditionally hand-drawn; the pencil drawings on paper were scanned and digitally colored in. The animations of the sky were drawn in oils by Anne Ashton.
The narrator of the film is Liv Ullmann , she spoke both the English and the Norwegian versions.
Awards
The Danish Poet won in 2007 the Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". At the 27th Genie Awards , Torill Kove, Lise Fearnley and Marcy Page received the 2007 Genie Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Web links
- The Danish Poet - A love story in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Danish Poet - A love story on bcdb.com