The Gentle Pain / Den milde smerte

A film director fights his way through a blizzard to a house that once belonged to a world-famous author, now dead (Thorkild Hansen). The director breaks into the house and steals copious amounts of material he takes with him to a hideout in a small Swedish cinema. The director spends months in a desperate struggle to come to grips with the vast material as he attempts to turn it into the poetic, painful film he has dreamed of making for so many years. The peace and quiet in which he expects to work is interrupted by a Swedish woman (Ewa Fröling, familiar as the mother in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander), who has also hidden away in the town since the breakup of her marriage.

Credits


ENGLISH TITLE The Gentle Pain
DANISH TITLE Den milde smerte
CATEGORY Drama
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN Denmark
RELEASE 2010
TECHNICAL DATA 35mm
RUNNING TIME 270 min
DIRECTOR Carsten Brandt 
SCREENPLAY Carsten Brandt 
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jean-Yves Dion
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Klaus Kristensen / Jean le Goff
EDITOR Sigudur Sverrir Pálsson
SOUND Alexander Michael Cronström 
COMPOSER Stig Christensen 
APPEARANCES Ewa Fröling, Caspar Phillipson, Michelle Sarah Guetta, Laure Calamy, Kasper Leisner, Rut Cronström, Erik Thors, Tine Blichmann, Bryan Souders, Kirstine Brandt, Mikkel Faartoft, Helene Gross, Misha Ringgaard
PRODUCTION
Posthus Teatret ApS / Ulf Berggren Filmproduktion

 PRODUCER
Tom Winther, Ulf Berggren 
FINANCE
(DK) Posthus Teatret
(DK) Danish Film Institute (Morten Grunwald)
(SE) Swedish Film Institute (Lena Varhegyi Hansson)
(DK) DR Danish Broadcasting Company
(SE) Roy Andersson Studio 24
DISTRIBUTOR / INTERNATIONAL SALES
Posthus Teatret ApS
Rådhustræde 1
DK-1466 Copenhagen K
Denmark
phone: +45 3311 6611
fax: +45 3313 3112
mail: info@posthusteatret.dk
FESTIVALS
Danish Film Institute
LOCATIONS
Denmark, Egypt, France, Italy, Sweden

Production/Distribution Posthus Teatret ApS | Rådhustræde 1 | DK-1466 Copenhagen K | Denmark
phone: +45 3311 6611 | fax: +45 3313 3112 | mail: info@posthusteatret.dk