Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

July 3 - 11, 2009

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Prague
( Prag )

Colour, 35 mm
Denmark, 2006, 92 min
Section: Variety Critics’ Choice
Film trailer: Higher quality | Lower quality

Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Screenplay: Kim Fupz Aakeson, Ole Christian Madsen
Dir. of Photography: Jørgen Johansson
Music: Jonas Struck
Designer: Jette Lehmann
Editor: Søren B. Ebbe
Producer: Morten Kaufmann
Production: Nimbus Film
Sales: Trust Film Sales AS
Contact: Danish Film Institute

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Bořivoj Navrátil, Jana Plodková

Synopsis

Marriage on the rocks has long been on the menu at cinema’s vast bar, but few recent helmers have managed to mix as potent a brew as Ole Christian Madsen in the long dramatic draught that is Prague. The story of a Copenhagen marriage that slowly crumbles during a sad, darkly quirky trip to the Czech capital, this widescreen wedge of underplayed Danish discord is far more resonant and focused than Madsen’s previous export, Kira’s Reason: A Love Story. Focusing in large part on faces, and fragments of faces, in the drama, Madsen uses the rigid countenance of Mads Mikkelsen and the troubled beauty of Stine Stengade – both outstanding – as windows to their turbulent souls. This perfectly calibrated balance of chamber drama with the persistent wisp of dark humor renders the pic a throwback to Euro artfare of yore.

Film Guests

Ole Christian Madsen

Contacts

Danish Film Institute
Gothersgade 55, DK - 1123 Copenhagen
Denmark
Tel: +45 33 743 400
Fax: +45 33 743 435
E-mail: dfi@dfi.dk

Nimbus Film
Filmbyen 20, 2650 Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 363 709 10
Fax: +45 363 409 11
E-mail: nimbus@nimbusfilm.dk

Trust Film Sales AS
Filmbyen 12, 2650 Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 36 868 788
Fax: +45 36 774 448
E-mail: sofie@trust-film.dk