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Prague

Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2007 / Prag / Denmark 2006

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.

Prague Prague

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.

About the film

92 min / Color, 35 mm

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

Contacts

TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 22, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Phone: +45 368 687 88
E-mail: [email protected]

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

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

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