Submarino
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Thomas Vinterberg
by Jonas T. Bengtsson
| Submarino | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Thomas Vinterberg |
| Screenplay by | Tobias Lindholm Thomas Vinterberg |
| Based on | Submarino by Jonas T. Bengtsson |
| Produced by | Morten Kaufmann |
| Starring | Jakob Cedergren Peter Plaugborg |
| Cinematography | Charlotte Bruus Christensen |
| Edited by | Valdís Óskarsdóttir Andri Steinn Guðmundsson |
| Music by | Kristian Eidnes Andersen Thomas Blachman |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Sandrew Metronome |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | Danish |
| Budget | €1.8 million ($2.5 million) |
| Box office | $0.816 million[1] |
Submarino is a 2010 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg,[2] starring Jakob Cedergren and Peter Plaugborg. It is based on the 2007 novel Submarino by Jonas T. Bengtsson, and focuses on two brothers on the bottom of Danish society, with lives marked by violence and drug addiction. The film was produced by Nimbus Film. As a condition from the financier TV 2, half of the cast and crew were novices, which the director enjoyed as it gave an experience similar to his earliest films.
Submarino premiered in the main competition of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] The film won the 2010 Nordic Council Film Prize. It was met by positive reviews in Denmark and has been nominated for 15 Robert Awards.
The story of two brothers who lose track of each other after an unstable childhood until they meet up again in prison is the focus of former Dogme 95 director Thomas Vinterberg's film based on a book by Jonas T. Bengtsson, a Danish novelist celebrated for his unflinching realism. The film's title refers to a method of torture known as ‘submarino’ in which the victim's head is held under water until just before the point of drowning.
Nick and his younger brother have grown up in terrible circumstances: their childhood was marked by poverty, abuse and an alcoholic mother until the family was torn apart by tragedy. Nick is now thirty-three and has just been released from prison. He's a man who knows what he wants: to train hard and drink hard in order to stand up against a hard world. A bodybuilder, he lives in a dilapidated hostel on the outskirts of Copenhagen. His brother is a junkie, a heroin dealer, and a single father for whom only two things count in life: his daily fix and a better life for his six-year-old son, Martin.
The brothers may live separate lives in grim Copenhagen, yet they are somehow searching for each other. What binds them is their mutual struggle for a life worth living. Occasionally their paths cross, but they only really find each other in prison. And that's almost too late for them.
Cast
- Jakob Cedergren as Nick
- Peter Plaugborg as Nick's brother
- Patricia Schumann as Sofie
- Morten Rose as Ivan
- Gustav Fischer Kjærulff as Martin
- Henrik Strube as Jimmy Gule
- Helene Reingaard Neumann as Mona
- Sebastian Bull Sarning as young Nick
- Mads Broe Andersen as young Nick's brother
- Dar Salim as Goran
Production
In June 2008 it was announced that Thomas Vinterberg would adapt Jonas T. Bengtsson's novel which had been well received by the Danish media the year before. Submarino was launched as one of four films on which Nimbus Film would spend the 1.4 million kroner they recently had been granted from the European Union's MEDIA Programme.[4] The film was made without support from the Danish Film Institute. Instead it received public funding through the broadcaster TV 2, whose condition for providing the money was that half of the cast and production crew would be first-timers. Vinterberg thought the condition helped the film's authenticity and likened the experience to his very earliest works: "That eagerness, energy, whole-hearted devotion from people starting a career was amazing. I had been missing this from when I did my graduation film at the Danish Film School, prior to Dogma. I enjoyed that."[5] Feature-film debutants included the cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen, the scriptwriter Tobias Lindholm and the stage actor Peter Plaugborg who played Nick's brother. The budget was around 1.8 million euro.[6]