A gripping film about one of the world’s greatest artists of all time. By depicting four defining periods in Edvard Munch’s life, the film gives an intimate insight into a distinctive and unique artistic mind. Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth and Anne Krigsvoll each interpret Edvard Munch in different periods of his life. The film tells the story of the young Edvard Munch’s first love, with a married woman, and further about his defeat as an artist after his first exhibition in Berlin is rejected. The film also depicts Munch’s dramatic admission to a nerve clinic in Copenhagen, where he is forced to make the biggest and most decisive choice of his life, before we see him fight a hard battle in the final phase of his life to save his artistic heritage from the Nazis during the war. The four parts have each been filmed with different camera aesthetics in order to give the viewer four contrasting visual impressions. “Munch” is the first dramatization of Edvard Munch’s life on the big screen.
2023, 104’, Norvegia / Norway
Regie / Director: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
Distribuţie / Cast: Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth, Anne Krigsvoll
The project is part of the national cultural programme "Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023" and is funded through the European Echoes Timișoara 2023 programme, implemented by the Center for Projects Timișoara, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Culture.