The Danish Poet
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| Directed by | Torill Kove |
| Produced by | Lise Fearnley Marcy Page |
| Narrated by | Liv Ullmann |
| Music by | Kevin Dean |
| Editing by | Phyllis Lewis |
| Distributed by | Europe: Norwegian Film Institute Rest of the World: National Film Board of Canada |
| Release date(s) | February 15, 2006 |
| Running time | 15 min |
| Country | Norway Canada |
| Language | English |
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The Danish Poet 2006 is an academy award-winning animated short film by Torill Kove, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Norway's MikroFilm AS. The film is narrated by Liv Ullmann.
[edit] Synopsis
In The Danish Poet, Kove asks whether our lives are just coincidence – or do little things really matter? The 15-minute film follows a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet a famous writer. As his quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a spell of bad weather, an angry dog, slippery barn planks, a careless postman, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.
[edit] Awards and recognition
The Danish Poet received the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards. This is the second Oscar nomination and first win for animator Kove, who was nominated in 2000 for her first professional film, My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, also co-produced by the NFB.
The also film won Best Animated Short at the 27th Genie Awards on 13 February 2007. A Norwegian literary adaptation Den danske dikteren was nominated for the 2007 Brageprisen award.[1]
[edit] External links
- The Danish Poet at the Internet Movie Database
- NFB Web site
- CBC News item
- Animation Magazine interview with Torill Kove
- Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet Animated News & Views interview
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