The Last Sentence

The Last Sentence (2012)

Dom över död man

Mentre i nazisti si avvicinano al confine svedese, il giornalista Torgny Segerstedt sfida l'accondiscendenza della nazione e denuncia la crescente minaccia.

Data di uscita
2012-12-07
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (15)
Durata
2 h 0 min
Generi
Dramma, Storia
Regista
Jan Troell

Cast

Curiosità

The Last Sentence is a 2012 Swedish film, directed by Jan Troell and starring Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Björn Granath and Ulla Skoog. It is set between 1933 and 1945, and focuses on the life and career of Torgny Segerstedt, a Swedish newspaper editor who was a prominent critic of Hitler and the Nazis during a period when the Swedish government and monarch were intent on maintaining Sweden's neutrality and avoiding tensions with Germany. The film also deals with Segerstedt's relations with his wife, his mistress, and his mistress's husband.

Production

After finishing his previous feature film, Everlasting Moments from 2008, director Jan Troell has said that he felt an emptiness and wondered whether he ever would get to make another film. Around that time he received a phonecall from the writer Kenne Fant, who in 2007 had published a biography about Torgny Segerstedt, an early outspoken critic of Adolf Hitler who before and during World War II had been the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Göteb…

Production was led by Filmlance International. Co-producers included Film i Väst, Filmpool Nord, Sveriges Television, Nordisk Film and companies in Norway. The project received eleven million kronor in support from the Swedish Film Institute and 450,000 euros from Eurimages, as well as funding from the Norwegian Film Institute and Nordisk Film- & TV Fond. The production involved a total budget of 43 million kronor.

Early in the production process Max von Sydow was considered for the role of Segerstedt. Soon however Troell decided to offer it to the Danish actor Jesper Christensen. Both Troell and Christensen were initially worried about Christensen's Danish accent, which would be inconsistent with the role; this was eventually solved by changing the script to make Segerstedt's mother Danish.

Principal photography commenced 21 February 2011 in Luleå where it continued for three weeks. Filmpool Nord's Studio Kronan was used for studio scenes set in Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning's office and Segerstedt's home. Also in Luleå, footage was taken of the Lule River, which stands in for Klarälven in the film.

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