H.C. Andersen's The Long Shadow ( H.C. Andersen og den skæve skygge )

H.C. Andersen's The Long Shadow (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: H.C. Andersen og den skæve skygge
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Jannik Hastrup

Written By:
Hans Christian Andersen
Bent Haller

Actors:
Otto Brandenburg ..... Rejsekammeraten, pleje
Povl Dissing ..... En ga
Ole Ernst ..... Coli
Ditte Gråbøl ..... Johann
Sofie Gråbøl ..... Louis
Cecilie Hastrup Karshøj ..... (voice
Lone Kellerman ..... Moste
Tommy Kenter ..... Meisling - Öehlenschläger
Jesper Klein ..... H.C. Andersen
Margrethe Koytu ..... Hek
Jarl Kulle ..... Fande
Ghita Nørby ..... Moderen
Claus Ryskjær ..... Skygge
Ove Sprogøe ..... Bedstefadere
Axel Strøbye ..... Teaterdirektøre
Bodil Udsen ..... Emm
Tammi Øst ..... Jenny Lind

Synopsis:

A young man discovers that his shadow does not behave quite like others, but is a reflection of his dark and unruly side shaking of his life. When he is struggling to create a name for himself as a writer, the shadow acquire it's own body, in league with the devil. The life and times of the reclusive Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen.

A delightful reinterpretation of Andersen's life and work by the veteran Danish animator Jannik Hastrup, beginning with the great storyteller's fanciful, solitary boyhood and ending with his wistful, solitary death. Loneliness seems to be the long shadow here: the film posits Andersen's fervent imagination as being at least partly fired by his documented celibacy and unrequited passions, which forced him back on the companionship of a pet ugly duckling he calls Emma, his own wayward shadow, and the Devil himself. Shadow and Satan naturally find common cause, but in the last resort the power of Andersen's writings and fame grant him a bitter-sweet salvation. Hastrup mixes watercolours and inks, focusing on story, but occasionally letting loose with flights of freeflowing expressionism or apposite whimsy.

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