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HER I N�RHEDEN
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Denmark
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 100 min.
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A PLACE NEARBY
A single mother who keeps a small shop in a provincial town, Mrs. Nielsen is fiercely protective of her autistic son. Brian is not really retarded, just different. But Mrs. Nielsen loves him to the point of suffocation and makes sure that his contact with the normal world is limited and thoroughly controlled. One hot summer night, Brian is late returning from his evening walk. The next morning brings news of a girl murdered in a nearby field. Immediately suspecting her son, Mrs. Nielsen begins destroying potentially incriminating evidence and she coaches him into saying that he was asleep all night if and when the police question him. Jespersen, the veteran police detective assigned to the case, suspects Brian and persists in interrogating the boy again and again. Mrs. Nielsen is tremendously anxious, still not sure whether Brian killed the girl and afraid to ask him. Brian, meanwhile, would dearly love to confide in someone. But his mother won't listen and he's afraid of Jespersen. There's only the Baron, a kindly old man who runs a second-hand shop down the street...
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Script: Kaspar Rostrup. D'apr�s le roman de/Based on the novel by: Martha Christensen.
Phot.: Eric Kress.
Ed.: Grete M�ldrup.
Mus.: Fuzzy.
Cast: Ghita N�rby, Frits Helmuth, Henning Moritzen, Thure Lindhardt, Magnus Stahl Jacobsen, Hannah Bjarnhof, Sarah Boberg, Thomas Bo Larsen.
Prod.: Tina Dalhoff,Nordisk Film Production AS, Mosedalvej, 2500 Valby (Danemark), t�l.: (45) 3618 8200, fax: (45) 3616 8502.
Sales: Nordisk Film International Sales, 29, Halmtorvet, 1700 Copenhague V (Danemark), t�l.: (45) 33 26 68 80, fax: (45) 33 26 68 89, e-mail: [email protected].
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Kaspar Rostrup
Born in Denmark in 1940, Kaspar Rostrup began his professional career in the theatre and has been a prominent Danish stage director since 1966. He has directed numerous television dramas and serials, including the Bryggeren mini-series in 1996. He made his film debut in 1981 with JEPPE P� BJERGET. His WALTZING REGITZE (1989) was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film. |
