After the Wedding
Film Title (Spanish): Después de la Boda
Film Title (Original): Efter Bryllupet
Film Title (English): After the Wedding
Country of Origin: Denmark/Sweden
Year of Completition: 2005
Running Time: 120 minutes
Format/Color/BW: 35mm, Color
Language : Danish, Swedish, Hindi and English Spanish Subtitles
 Director: Susanne Bier | Biography | Watch Trailer
Film Synopsis - Short:
Acclaimed director Susanne Bier returns with her most powerful film yet, the Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film AFTER THE WEDDING. Jacob Peterson (Casino Royal’s Mads Mikkelsen) has run an orphanage in India for the last 20 years. He is reluctantly lured back to Denmark to meet with a potential donor, the wealthy industrialist Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard. Once there, the affable Jorgen insists Jacob attend Jorgen's beloved daughter's wedding, where Jacob unwittingly walks into his past.
Film Synopsis - Long:
Acclaimed director Susanne Bier returns with her most powerful film yet, the Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, AFTER THE WEDDING. Far from home, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen), runs a struggling orphanage in one India’s s poorest regions. Desperate to save the orphanage from closure, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. Jorgen offers Jacob a seemingly innocent invitation to attend his daughter’s wedding. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change their lives.
Mikkelsen who played the elegant arch villain in Casino Royale, here displays the soulful sensitivity that led him to be voted the sexiest man in Denmark. Sweeping, yet entirely intimate, AFTER THE WEDDING boasts sharp direction, strong and nuanced performances, and a tight script packed with unexpected revelations --- it is a shattering portrait of a family struggling with the fragility of life and the search for connection, healing, and forgiveness.
Film Credits
Director: Susanne Bier
Producers: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Executive Producers: Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Peter Garde
Screenwriter: Peter Garde
Screenwriter: Anders
Cinematography : Morten Søborg, DFF
Editing: Pernille Bech Christensen and Morten Hojbjerg
Music : Johan Söderqvist
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård,
Stine Fischer Christensen, Mona Malm, Christian Tafdrup
Film History/Prizes:
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL - OFFICIAL SELECTION
WOODSTOCK - CENTERPIECE FILM
AFI FILM FESTIVAL - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Best Actor - Palm Springs
Best Director Nominee - European
Best Actor Nominee - European
Chicago's European Union - Audience Award
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