Archive of films Prague / Prag

Denmark
2006, 92 min

Section: Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!
Year: 2007

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. This widescreen wedge of underplayed Danish discord is far more resonant and focused than Madsen’s previous export, Kira’s Reason: A Love Story.

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.

Contacts

TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 22, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 368 687 88
Fax: +45 367 744 48
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.trustnordisk.com

Danish Film Institute
Gothersgade 55, 1123, Copenhagen
Denmark
Tel: +45 337 434 00
Fax: +45 337 434 01
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.dfi.dk

Nimbus Film
Filmbyen 20, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 363 709 10
Fax: +45 363 409 11
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.nimbusfilm.dk

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!

Director:	Ole Christian Madsen
Screenplay:	Kim Fupz Aakeson, Ole Christian Madsen
Dir. of Photography:	Jørgen Johansson
Music:	Jonas Struck
Editor:	Søren B. Ebbe
Producer:	Morten Kaufmann
Production:	Nimbus Film
Cast:	Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Bořivoj Navrátil, Jana Plodková
Contact:	TrustNordisk, Danish Film Institute, Nimbus Film