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''The Celebration'' ( da, Festen) is a 1998 Danish dark comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and produced by Nimbus Film. The film tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their father's 60th birthday, juggling subjects of death, child abuse, trauma, and family. Vinterberg was inspired to write it with Mogens Rukov, based on a hoax broadcast by a Danish radio station.It was the first Dogme 95 film, an artistic movement created by Danish directors Vinterberg and Lars von Trier. The movement preferred simple and analog production values to allow for the highlighting of plot and performance. ''Festen'' was selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In addition, it won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 1998. Plot Helge (Henning Moritzen), a respected businessman and family patriarch, is celebrating his 60th birthday at the family-run hotel. Gathered together amongst a lar ...
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Dogme 95
Dogme 95 is a 1995 avant-garde filmmaking movement founded by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" ( da, kyskhedsløfter). These were rules to create films based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, and excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology. It was supposedly created as an attempt to "take back power for the directors as artists", as opposed to the studio. They were later joined by fellow Danish directors Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, forming the Dogme 95 Collective or the Dogme Brethren. ''Dogme'' () is the Danish word for dogma. History Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg wrote and co-signed the manifesto and its companion "vows". Vinterberg said that they wrote the pieces in 45 minutes. The manifesto initially mimics the wording of François Truffaut's 1954 essay "Une certaine tendance du cinéma français" in '' Cahiers du cinéma'' ...
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Dogme 95 is a 1995 avant-garde filmmaking movement founded by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" ( da, kyskhedsløfter). These were rules to create films based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, and excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology. It was supposedly created as an attempt to "take back power for the directors as artists", as opposed to the studio. They were later joined by fellow Danish directors Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, forming the Dogme 95 Collective or the Dogme Brethren. ''Dogme'' () is the Danish word for dogma. History Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg wrote and co-signed the manifesto and its companion "vows". Vinterberg said that they wrote the pieces in 45 minutes. The manifesto initially mimics the wording of François Truffaut's 1954 essay "Une certaine tendance du cinéma français" in ''Cahiers du cinéma''. ...
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Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg (; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films ''The Celebration'' (1998), '' Submarino'' (2010), '' The Hunt'' (2012), '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (2015), and '' Another Round'' (2020). For ''Another Round'', he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the former became the first Danish filmmaker nominated for Best Director. Life and career Vinterberg was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. In 1993, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with ' (''Sidste omgang''), which won the jury and producers' awards at the Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München, and First Prize at Tel Aviv. The same year, Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film ', produced by at Nimb ...
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Paprika Steen
Kirstine "Paprika" Steen (born 3 November 1964) is a Danish actress and director best known for her performances in Dogme 95 films ''Festen'', ''The Idiots'', Mifune, and ''Open Hearts''. Steen was the first Danish actress since Karin Nellemose in 1994 to win both Best Actress (for ''Okay'') and Best Supporting Actress (''Open Hearts'') in the same year at the Robert Festival, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars. Biography Steen was born on 3 November 1964 in Frederiksberg, Denmark, the daughter of musician and conductor and the actress Avi Sagild. She is the sister of musician and actor . Steen applied to the Acting School of Odense Theatre 13 times before being accepted and attending from 1988 to 1992. Steen performed on stage in Dr. Dante productions and been associated with the Royal Danish Theatre since 1997. In 1997 she wrote and performed in the satirical television series ''Lex og Klatten''. In 1998, Steen became an active participant in the Dogme 95 film movement as t ...
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Ulrich Thomsen
Ulrich Thomsen (born 6 December 1963) is a Danish actor and filmmaker, known for his role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series ''Banshee'' (2013-2016). Biography Ulrich Thomsen was born in (Næsby) Odense, Denmark and graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1993, after which he performed in several theatres in Copenhagen, such as Dr. Dantes Aveny, Mungo Park and Østre Gasværks Teater. His film debut was in 1994 in '' Nightwatch'', directed by Ole Bornedal. Since then, he has starred in a number of roles including, among others, Thomas Vinterberg's ''The Biggest Heroes'' (1996), Susanne Bier's ''Sekten'' (1997) and Anders Thomas Jensen's ''Flickering Lights'' (2000). The major breakthrough in his career came in the 1998 film ''Festen'' followed by an important role in the James Bond film ''The World Is Not Enough'' (1999) portraying the part of henchman Sasha Davidov. This established Thomsen as an international actor, famous out ...
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Bjarne Henriksen
Bjarne Henriksen (born 18 January 1959) is a Danish film and television actor. Biography Henriksen was born in Såderup, Funen in 1959. He has appeared in theatre productions at the Jomfru Ane Teatret, Aalborg and at the Svalegangen theater, Aarhus, and has played supporting roles in numerous Danish films from the late 1990s through to the present, including '' De største helte'', ''Festen'', ''Kinamand'', and ''Af banen''. He has appeared in two films by Jonas Elmer: '' Let's Get Lost'' and ''Monas verden. More recently, he has been known for playing the lead role of Theis Birk Larsen, father of the murdered Nanna Birk Larsen in season one of the DR television drama series '' The Killing'', first broadcast in 2007. In 2011, Henriksen, along with Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Malling, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, and Lars Mikkelsen were nominated in the Crime Thriller Awards The Crime Thriller Awards is a British awards ceremony dedicated to crime thriller fiction. The inaugura ...
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Thomas Bo Larsen
Thomas Bo Larsen (born 27 November 1963) is a Danish film actor, born in Gladsaxe, Denmark. Career He was nominated for a Bodil Award in 1995 for Best Supporting Actor in " Sidste time", and later won two Robert Awards, the first in 1996 for Best Actor in " De største helte", and a second one in 1998 for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Festen" by Thomas Vinterberg. He has appeared in 54 films since 1984, including four with Vinterberg. Personal life He's been married to Patricia Schumann since 2001, and lives in Copenhagen. Selected filmography * '' Pusher'' (1996), drug addict * ''Festen'' (1998), Michael * ''Ambulance An ambulance is a medically equipped vehicle which transports patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport. Ambulances are used to respond to medi ...'' (2005) * '' The Hunt'' (2012), Theo * '' A Second Chance'' (2014), Klaus * '' Another Round'' (20 ...
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Trine Dyrholm
Trine Dyrholm (; born 15 April 1972) is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national recognition when she placed third in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a 14-year-old singer. Four years later, she again achieved national recognition when she won the Bodil Award for Best Actress in her debut film: the teenage romance ''Springflod''. Dyrholm has won the Bodil Award for Best Actress five times and a Bodil award for Best Supporting Actress twice as well as six Robert Awards in her acting career. Career When Dyrholm was eight years old, she began performing with the Odense orchestra. At the age of 10, she performed in ''Et juleeventyr'' (''A Christmas Carol'') at the Odense Teater and in summer stock in Den Fynske Landsby. In 1987, at 14 years old, Dyrholm made her breakthrough as the lead singer in Trine & The Moonlighters when the group placed third in the Danish Melodi Grand Prix with the song ''Danse i måneskin'' (''Dancing in Moonlight'').Piils, Morten, ...
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Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle, (born 14 April 1955) is a British cinematographer and still photographer. He won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for ''Slumdog Millionaire'' (2008). Other accolades include two Bodil Awards, two European Film Awards, and four Robert Awards. Dod Mantle is considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking through his collaborations with directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Danny Boyle, where he popularized the use of "action-style" handheld cameras over traditional, stationary 35mm rigs. A veteran of Dogme 95, he is heavily influenced by the ''cinéma vérité'' film movement. He is a member of the British, Danish, and American Society of Cinematographers, and resides in Copenhagen. Career Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films and the first two episodes of ''Wallander''. He used the Red One digital camera on ''Wallander'', the first British television production to do so.Strauss, Will (13 May 2008),Anthony Dod M ...
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Klaus Bondam
Klaus Bondam (born 19 November 1963, in Aakirkeby) is a Danish actor and politician. Acting career Bondam has been the manager two theatres, (1996–2003) and Folketeatret (2003–2005), and been administrative manager of Mungo Park theatre (1995–1996). Klaus Bondam began acting on stage in 1988. His acting breakthrough came in the movie ''Festen'' in 1998, playing the German toastmaster at the party. He starred in the series '' Langt fra Las Vegas'' (2001–2003) as the sexually driven boss Niels Buckingham. Filmography Film Television Politics Klaus Bondam was in the political party Radikale Venstre and ran for mayor of Copenhagen in November 2005. The party's city council representation grew from five to seven seats. This was not enough to secure the mayorship. He was instead named Mayor of the Technical and Environmental Committee. He resigned in 2010 and left the party in 2013. He is no longer active in Danish politics.
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Henning Moritzen
Henning Moritzen (3 August 1928 – 11 August 2012) was a Danish film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1950 and 2010. He was born in Taarbæk, Denmark. Partial filmography Film * ''John og Irene'' (1949) – Gæst ved Carlsens selskab (uncredited) * ''For frihed og ret'' (1949) – Ung mand ved Stavnsbåndsjubilæet * ''Susanne'' (1950) – Ung mand * ''Vores fjerde far'' (1951) – Mand på bænk * ''Frihed forpligter'' (1951) – Ung landmand * ''Dorte'' (1951) – Doktor Sørensen * '' Kærlighedsdoktoren'' (1952) – 1. Kontorist * ''We Who Go the Kitchen Route'' (1953) – Dick * '' Den gamle mølle på Mols'' (1953) – Fløgstrup * '' Adam og Eva'' (1953) – Tolder * ''This Is Life'' (1953) – Sanglærer Stefan Korsby * '' Himlen er blå'' (1954) – Slagterens datters kæreste * '' Et eventyr om tre'' (1954) – Kjeld * '' Bruden fra Dragstrup'' (1955) – Walter Brandt * ''Kispus'' (1956) – Jakob * ''Tante Tut fra Paris'' (1956) – Bent Larsen ...
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Morten Kaufmann
Morten Kaufmann (born 25 March 1963) is a Danish film and TV producer. He is known for his early involvement with the Dogme 95 film movement, specifically collaborations with Thomas Vinterberg. He is based out of Copenhagen. Filmography * Sinan's Wedding, (1997) * Festen, (1998) * Fra Vesterbro til verdens ende, (1998, TV series) * Mifune, (1999) * Pizza King, (1999) * Miracle, (2000) * Kira's Reason: A Love Story, (2001) * It's All About Love, (2003, line) * Nordkraft, (2005, line) * Dark Horse, (2005) * Prague, (2006) * A Man Comes Home, (2007) * White Night, (2007) * Flame & Citron, (2008) * The Escape, (2009) * Submarino, (2010) * The Hunt, (2012) * Hemmeligheden, (2012) * Woolfert, (2013, short) * Comeback, (2015) * The Commune, (2016) * Letters for Amina, (2017, executive) * Among the Adults, (2017, short, executive) * Word of God, (2017) * Lila, (2018, short, executive) * Hacker, (2019) * Kaptajn Bimse, (2019) * Daniel Daniel is a masculine given name and a surn ...
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