The reboot of Hamilton, starring Jakob Oftebro as the Swedish agent, is adapted by head-writer Petter S. Rosenlund and Matthew Reeve from Jan Guillou’s best-selling books. The first season of the thriller series evolves around a murder investigation led by Hamilton. The detective will soon come to realise that the assassination is probably linked to a series of…
Marijana Jankovic has joined the cast of the acclaimed theatre remake of Lars von Trier’s iconic and award-winning TV-series The Kingdom (Riget) now playing at the The Royal Danish Playhouse. The show had its first premiere last year. Thomas W. Gabrielsson stars in the role of the Swedish chief resident, Stig Hjelmer, who is fiercely trying to avoid anyone…
Rasmus Bjerg has taken over Anders Breinholt’s place next to Sofie Linde in the upcoming comedy show at Aveny T. With Bjerg being new on board, the premiere has been postponed to January 16, 2020. Hurry up to get your tickets for this spectacular varieté show – now titled Linde på Bjerget – A two man show. Read…
NRK’s highly anticipated 22 July starring Alexandra Gjerpen and DR’s next ambitious series When the Dust Settles (Når støvet har lagt sig) starring Peter Christoffersen are among the five Nordic drama series nominated for the NOK 200,000 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award. The award ceremony will take place on January 29, 2020 at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision during Nordisk Film &…
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard stars in Malou Reymann’s feature debut A Perfectly Normal Family, which will be celebrating its world premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January. The movie has been selected for the Big Screen Competition which is part of the festival’s Voices sidebar, featuring nine films selected based on their theatrical qualities. Written and directed…
Jesper Christensen leads the ensemble in Anders Refn’s Into the Darkness (De forbandede år) where he portrays the successful electronics manufacturer Karl Skov who lives a privileged upper-class life north of Copenhagen with his family. But as Karl reluctantly begins to produce for the German market, it causes a painful family breakup. Bodil Jørgensen plays his wife…
Jeanette Nordahl’s feature film debut Wildland (Kød og blod) will celebrate its world premiere in the Panorama section at The Berlin Internatinal Film Festival in February. Joachim Fjelstrup stars in the female-driven crime drama toplining Sidse Babett Knudsen as a mafia matriarch. Set in the Danish countryside, Wildlandfollows a 17-year old girl, Ida, who moves in with her aunt and…
Filming is currently taking place for Ole Bornedal’s ambitious WW2 drama Shadows in My Eyes (Skyggen i mit øje) produced by Jonas Allen and Peter Bose at Miso Film Denmark. Based on a script by Bornedal, Shadows in My Eyes centres on the bombing of the Gestapo headquarters at the Shell House in Copenhagen in 1945, one of the…
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal leads the cast in the upcoming thriller series Witch Hunt which premieres on Norwegian TV2 and TV2 Sumo on January 9. Berdal can be seen as Ida Waage, a chief financial officer in one of the country’s leading law firms. She has come a long way in a male-dominated and tough industry, but when she…
Congratulations to Josefine Frida for receiving the talent award Tokyo Gemstone Award at the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival which took place last week. Her current movie Disco, by Norwegian director Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, also celebrated its Asian premiere in the Competition Section at the Festival. The feature stars Josefine Frida as 19-year-old Mirjam, the world champion in freestyle disco dancing…