Evening Land ( Aftenlandet )

Evening Land (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Aftenlandet
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Moscow International Film Festival

Language Selections:
Danish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1977 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Peter Watkins

Written By:
Carsten Clante
Poul Martinsen

Actors:
Bent Andersen
Kai Schøning Andersen
Mogens Andersen
Oluf Andersen
Patricia Bay Andersen
Steen Andersen
Peter O. Back
Niels Baden
Carsten Baess
Kent Bajer
Jon Bang Carlsen
Erling Barfoed
Peter Bay
Allan Beattie
Bengt Bengtsen

Synopsis:

Evening Land presents fictitious events in the Europe of 1976, beginning with a strike at a shipyard in Copenhagen over the building of four submarines for the French navy: not only because the financially troubled management has proposed a wage freeze to secure the contract, but because it is discovered that the vessels can be fitted with nuclear missiles. At the same time, a summit meeting of European Common Market ministers takes place in Copenhagen, and a group of radical demonstrators kidnap the Danish EEC Minister in protest against the production of nuclear submarines in Denmark, and in support of the strikers' demands. The Danish police not only brutally attack a demonstration by the strikers, they also locate and rescue the kidnapped minister, and capture or kill the 'terrorists'.

This strange film is a made-up documentary, detailing the future history of Denmark in four related but discrete storylines. In one, the refusal by a group of shipyard workers to work on ships carrying atomic warheads leads to sympathetic strikes around the country, and a general strike threatens. In another, the future relationship of the Common Market nations to various defense pacts such as NATO is discussed by a group of high-ranking national representatives. The third and fourth stories are closely intertwined: after a leftist group kidnaps the Danish Secretary of State, the police stretch the law as far as it will go in order to respond to the threat.

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