The Gentle Pain
Den milde smerte
Synopsis
One can't help wondering whether, some quarter-century ago, Carsten Brandt had the slightest inkling of the epic dimension the project he was then starting to conceive – The Gentle Pain – would take on in the subsequent decades. For it became epic in just about every sense of the word: the film is very long; it tells a multi-layered story characterised as much by its digressions as by its main narrative thread, which concerns a filmmaker’s attempts to make sense of the life of Thorkild Hansen, a Danish traveller/historian/writer internationally probably best known for his non-fiction novel Processen mod Hamsun (1978); and it took a long time to finish – and then sat on a shelf due to legal battles galore. What is now finally revealed is a monument of modern(ist) cinema: a work that as much charts one man’s journey into his soul as a voyage of discovery into another artist’s mind.
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Key Information & Fast Facts
- Director
- Carsten Brandt
- Screenplay & Story
- Carsten Brandt
- Original Title
- Den milde smerte
- Country of Origin
- Denmark
- Spoken Languages
- Arabic, English, French, Italian, Swedish
- Runtime
- 4h 40m
- Production Studios
- Posthus Teatret
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Carsten Brandt
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Carsten Brandt
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What is The Gentle Pain about?
One can't help wondering whether, some quarter-century ago, Carsten Brandt had the slightest inkling of the epic dimension the project he was then starting to conceive – The Gentle Pain – would take on in the subsequent decades. For it became epic in just about every sense of the word: the film is very long; it tells a multi-layered story characterised as much by its digressions as by its main narrative thread, which concerns a filmmaker’s attempts to make sense of the life of Thorkild Hansen, a Danish traveller/historian/writer internationally probably best known for his non-fiction novel Processen mod Hamsun (1978); and it took a long time to finish – and then sat on a shelf due to legal battles galore. What is now finally revealed is a monument of modern(ist) cinema: a work that as much charts one man’s journey into his soul as a voyage of discovery into another artist’s mind.
Who directed The Gentle Pain?
The Gentle Pain was directed by Carsten Brandt.
Who stars in The Gentle Pain?
The principal cast of The Gentle Pain includes Ewa Fröling, Caspar Phillipson, Laure Calamy, Kasper Leisner.
When was The Gentle Pain released and how long is it?
The Gentle Pain was released in 2019 with a total runtime of 4h 40m.