De vilde svaner
Brief Synopsis
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Elisa lives happily with her eleven brothers and father until he remarries, and his new wife the Queen sends Elisa away and transforms her brothers into swans. As an adult, Elisa returns to the kingdom but her father doesn't recognize her and she is told to leave. With the help of an old woman she f
Cast & Crew
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Peter Flinth
Director
Stine Fischer Christensen
Benedikte Hansen
Mads M Nielsen
Soren Saetter-lassen
Jens Jorn Spottag
Film Details
Also Known As
Wild Swans, The, vilde svaner
Genre
Adaptation
Adventure
Drama
Foreign
Release Date
2009
Production Company
Danish Broadcasting Corporation; Danish Film Institute (Dfi)
Distribution Company
Filmcompagniet
Location
Valby, Copenhagen, Denmark
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
Synopsis
Elisa lives happily with her eleven brothers and father until he remarries, and his new wife the Queen sends Elisa away and transforms her brothers into swans. As an adult, Elisa returns to the kingdom but her father doesn't recognize her and she is told to leave. With the help of an old woman she finds her brothers who are birds by day and human by night. In order to save them Elisa must weave eleven coarse shirts from flax made of stinging nettles so that her brothers may regain human form, but until the task is accomplished Elisa can not speak a word.
Cast
Stine Fischer Christensen
Benedikte Hansen
Mads M Nielsen
Soren Saetter-lassen
Jens Jorn Spottag
Helle Hertz
Thure Lindhardt
Mads Hjulmand
Crew
Cathrine Ambus
Editor
Hans Christian Andersen
Source Material
Torben Forsberg
Dp/Cinematographer
Torben Forsberg
Director Of Photography
Jacob Jørgensen
Producer
Jesper Westerlin Nielsen
Screenplay
Lene Nielsen
Production Manager
Tine Saetter-lassen
Casting Director
Svend Skipper
Original Music
My Thordal
Editor
Film Details
Also Known As
Wild Swans, The, vilde svaner
Genre
Adaptation
Adventure
Drama
Foreign
Release Date
2009
Production Company
Danish Broadcasting Corporation; Danish Film Institute (Dfi)
Distribution Company
Filmcompagniet
Location
Valby, Copenhagen, Denmark
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
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Miscellaneous Notes
Based on the fairy tale "De vilde svaner" by Hans Christian Andersen and published by C.A. Reitzel in 1838.
