REInvent has closed a French deal on “The Angel Maker,” a psychological thriller starring a top Nordic cast including Julie R. Ølgaard (“The Killing”), Roland Møller (“Riders of Justice”), Christopher Læssø (“The Bridge”) and Stine Stengade (“Those Who Kill”).
The banner has sold the film to Koba Films in France and will be hosting a market screening at Cannes on the 18th.
“The Angel Maker” tells the story of crime detective Laura who is specialized within cybercrime. Laura is on sick leave with a psychosis after a birth depression and by coincidence she stumbles upon a case with a beastly serial killer which piques her interest and she decides that it is time for her to return to her job as a crime detective.
Produced by HitHero Productions, the film is directed by Esben Tønnesen and Julie R. Ølgaard. It will be released on June 8.
The banner has sold the film to Koba Films in France and will be hosting a market screening at Cannes on the 18th.
“The Angel Maker” tells the story of crime detective Laura who is specialized within cybercrime. Laura is on sick leave with a psychosis after a birth depression and by coincidence she stumbles upon a case with a beastly serial killer which piques her interest and she decides that it is time for her to return to her job as a crime detective.
Produced by HitHero Productions, the film is directed by Esben Tønnesen and Julie R. Ølgaard. It will be released on June 8.
- 5/17/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Director: Ole Christian Madsen Writers: Lars Andersen, Ole Christian Madsen Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind, Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt, Christian Berkel, Hanns Zischler, Claus Riis Ostergaard, Lars Mikkelsen, Flemming Enevold, Jesper Christensen The place is Copenhagen, the year is 1944. Flame (Thure Lindhardt) and Citron’s (Mads Mikkelsen) moral compasses are spinning out of control as they go on a strategic killing spree of Danes who are collaborating with Nazis occupiers, then straight for the jugular of the Nazis themselves. Citron begins the film as a family man; he is Flame’s sidekick, but he is literally just along for the drive (a stressful job nonetheless causing him to sweat profusely, drink heavily and gulp down pills to quell his nerves). However, it is not long before the lunacy of war takes hold of Citron and never ever lets him go. Even Flame, who is an unwavering killing...
- 3/5/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The first thing they teach in spy school is never to fall in love with somebody on the other side because you may be called on to fire a bullet into that person's forehead.
In the Danish thriller "Flame & Citron," set during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in 1944, resistance fighter Flame (red-haired hunk Thure Lindhardt) encounters just such a problem when he meets a mysterious woman named Ketty (Stine Stengade), who seems to be working for both sides at the same time.
Flame and his partner Citron (Mads Mikkelsen) are a successful hit...
In the Danish thriller "Flame & Citron," set during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in 1944, resistance fighter Flame (red-haired hunk Thure Lindhardt) encounters just such a problem when he meets a mysterious woman named Ketty (Stine Stengade), who seems to be working for both sides at the same time.
Flame and his partner Citron (Mads Mikkelsen) are a successful hit...
- 7/31/2009
- by V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Based on true events and developed from eyewitness accounts during World War II, Ole Christian Madsen's political thriller Flame & Citron is an ultra-stylized and remarkable spy noir about the murky moral complexities of wartime. Copenhagen, 1944. World War II is entering its final stretch in Europe. Denmark is occupied by Nazi Germany. Two resistance fighters nicknamed Flame (Thure Lindhart) and Citron (Mads Mikkelsen - Casino Royale) become heroes of the underground dealing violently with traitors to their cause. When the pair is sent to execute Flame's lover Ketty (Stine Stengade), the line between ally and enemy is blurred forcing them to determine their own orders which starts with killing the much hated and feared chief of the Gestapo - Karl Heinz Hoffman (Christian Berkel).(...
- 7/30/2009
- Movie City News
- There is a reason why we call them Great Danes. Filmmaker Ole Christian Madsen's Flame & Citron is becoming the big Dane film that could. Currently set up with deals in over 18 territories, it took a couple of months and perhaps a need to show proof of purchases for The Match Factory to find a taker for the U.S market. IFC Films are planning a 09' release. Reuniting Mads Mikkelsen and Stine Stengade, who were paired in Madsen's previous work Prague, the World War II pic also stars Thure Lindhardt as one of the two Danish resistance fighters who hunt down collaborators in German-occupied Copenhagen. More than a decade ago I had the chance to take a tour of The Resistance Museum - a museum dedicated to the effort involved in fighting off those pesky Germans. The display cases demonstrate the many ingenious ways that they sabotaged the
- 8/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Actress Stine Stengade makes emotional instability seem downright sexy in this Danish import, the latest film to subscribe to the "Dogma" ethos.
The tale of a mentally ill young woman returning home after a stint in a psychiatric hospital, "Kira's Reason: A Love Story" is an intense but ultimately emotionally unfulfilling film made notable chiefly by Stengade's compellingly showy performance. The film opens today exclusively at New York's Quad Cinema.
Stengade, making her feature debut, stars as Kira, a beautiful thirtysomething woman with a handsome, well-heeled husband, Mads (Lars Mikkelsen), two good-looking children and a comfortable upscale home. She also suffers from an unspecified psychiatric disorder that lands her in a mental hospital.
It becomes apparent soon after her release that she has not been entirely cured, as evidenced by a series of incidents in which her erratic behavior lands her into trouble, after which she has to be retrieved by her patient, though sexually unfaithful, husband. These range from her jumping into a children's pool and acting rambunctious to picking up a stranger at a bar and going home with him. Later, Mads inexplicably puts her in charge of a dinner party for his business associates, with predictably chaotic results.
The film never particularly achieves any depth or resonance and ultimately comes across as a series of wacky, albeit rather disturbing episodes. That it works to the extent that it does is due to the immediacy of Ole Christian Madsen's helming and the editing of Soren B. Ebbe, who apparently gleaned the film's running time of 94 minutes from some 120 hours of video footage.
The two leads deliver highly committed and powerful performances, with Stengade's striking beauty making her character's emotional volatility even more mesmerizing. Veteran Swedish actor Sven Wollter (the star of the recent "A Song for Martin"), also delivers a strong supporting turn as Kira's father.
KIRA'S REASON: A LOVE STORY
First Run Features
Credits:
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Screenwriters: Ole Christian Madsen in collaboration with Mogens Rukov
Producers: Morten Kaufmann, Bo Ehrhardt
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Editor: Soran B. Ebbe
Music: Oyvind Ougaard, Cesar Berti
Cast:
Kira: Stine Stengade
Mads: Lars Mikkelsen
Kira's Father: Sven Wollter
Kay: Peaches Latrice Petersen
Charlotte: Camilla Bendix
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The tale of a mentally ill young woman returning home after a stint in a psychiatric hospital, "Kira's Reason: A Love Story" is an intense but ultimately emotionally unfulfilling film made notable chiefly by Stengade's compellingly showy performance. The film opens today exclusively at New York's Quad Cinema.
Stengade, making her feature debut, stars as Kira, a beautiful thirtysomething woman with a handsome, well-heeled husband, Mads (Lars Mikkelsen), two good-looking children and a comfortable upscale home. She also suffers from an unspecified psychiatric disorder that lands her in a mental hospital.
It becomes apparent soon after her release that she has not been entirely cured, as evidenced by a series of incidents in which her erratic behavior lands her into trouble, after which she has to be retrieved by her patient, though sexually unfaithful, husband. These range from her jumping into a children's pool and acting rambunctious to picking up a stranger at a bar and going home with him. Later, Mads inexplicably puts her in charge of a dinner party for his business associates, with predictably chaotic results.
The film never particularly achieves any depth or resonance and ultimately comes across as a series of wacky, albeit rather disturbing episodes. That it works to the extent that it does is due to the immediacy of Ole Christian Madsen's helming and the editing of Soren B. Ebbe, who apparently gleaned the film's running time of 94 minutes from some 120 hours of video footage.
The two leads deliver highly committed and powerful performances, with Stengade's striking beauty making her character's emotional volatility even more mesmerizing. Veteran Swedish actor Sven Wollter (the star of the recent "A Song for Martin"), also delivers a strong supporting turn as Kira's father.
KIRA'S REASON: A LOVE STORY
First Run Features
Credits:
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Screenwriters: Ole Christian Madsen in collaboration with Mogens Rukov
Producers: Morten Kaufmann, Bo Ehrhardt
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Editor: Soran B. Ebbe
Music: Oyvind Ougaard, Cesar Berti
Cast:
Kira: Stine Stengade
Mads: Lars Mikkelsen
Kira's Father: Sven Wollter
Kay: Peaches Latrice Petersen
Charlotte: Camilla Bendix
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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