01/08/2006

Jacob Thuesen (Accused), Michael Hegner (I’m a Fish), Jannik Johansen (Stealing Rembrandt) and Giacomo Campeotto (Nasty Brats [+see also:
trailer
film profile]) have just received support from the Danish Film Institute for their latest feature film productions for a total amount of DKK 26.86m (€3.6m). Johansen, who directed the 2003 comedy Stealing Rembrandt, is now attached to the psychological drama Hvid nat (lit. “Towards the Evening”), based on a script by Anders Thomas Jensen (Adam’s Apples [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Anders Thomas Jensen
interview: Mads Mikkelsen
interview: Tivi Magnusson
film profile]). The day Ulrich (Lars Brygmann, Inheritance), a career-oriented man, becomes involved in an accidental death, his life takes on a totally new meaning and direction.

The project, awarded €930,000 in production support, is being produced by Birgitte Skov and Morten Kaufmann for Nimbus Film. It will be released in Denmark by FilmFolket in 2007.

Campeotto, who directed the successful children’s film Nasty Brats in 2003 (nearly 300,000 admissions), is going to helm the second instalment of the children’s adventure film The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar for M&M Productions, in co-production with Nordisk Film.

Scripted again by Philip LaZebnik and Søren Frellesen, and featuring the same child actors, the new film received €871,000 in production support. It will be released by Nordisk Film in 2007. The first film, directed by Kasper Barfoed, sold over 200,000 tickets in Denmark.

Annika Pham