Matthias Pro, “Sauna”, who was chosen for the dramatic competition for global cinema in Sandans, makes history.
“It is the first time that we have a transient person in a pioneering role in a feature film in Denmark. Otherwise, I was not to make this movie,” says the director for the first time diverse.
“We do not have many transitive actors in Denmark, and in order to carry a full feature, you need experience. For this reason we chose Nina your head, who is a mankin, a comic actor and a great actor. diverse.
“It has ended with unprofessional actors in simple roles and we have made a lot of research within society to make it as authentic as possible. Creating strange stories can be very difficult, you want to do everything correctly, but we had to say:” We will not do A good movie if we do everything “correctly”. We have to create a true story with real human beings. ”
Your head joins Magnus Johl Andersen, who was photographed by Johann, who works as a receptionist in the only gay sauna in Copenhagen. When he meets with transgender William, things become complicated. It is also good.
“I am part of the Queer community and my partner began to move while we were doing the movie. I used to know that it is a classic sex, but over the years my identity and our environment expanded. When we think about the LGBTQ+ umbrella, everyone assumes the same struggle, but people are having different battles “The clash shows – through a love story.
“The sauna is a good place to explore such a conflict because for a converting man, it is difficult to reach these spaces. Although this is what it determines, both sexually and sex.”
“Sauna” is based on William Liberts in cooperation with Pro, “Sauna” to the novel “Mad” Ananda Lodal. It was produced by Mads-August Hertz to produce Nordisk films with the support of a new Danish screen at the Danish Film Institute, DR, and Nordisk Film Distribution. Trustnordisk takes on sales and participated in uniqueness with diverse trailer.
“This society wants – and he needs – to see themselves on the screen. We had a test examination and one of them said:“ I cried for two hours, because I realized that I had never seen these pictures before, ”BROE.
For me, building bridges is the strongest. I really want to be in a conversation with curious people and I want them to feel the call to this universe. I collaborated with the scriptwriter who has a humor and with a producer who is not in the same strange environment, but it is very open. Make this movie much larger. ”
BROE wanted to help his fans “find sympathy for a society that has been pushed political.” It also showed some internal battles.
“The new generation talks about sexual identity and the desire to change the language about conscience, and the older generation either does not understand or find it fool. At the same time, we also forget what they had to go through.”
“I thought it was interesting to combine these two rituals. This sauna (in the movie) looked as it was since the 1970s. If the culture was not challenged or pushed, or not open to change, it will be suspended in time.”
In an attempt to photograph “a feeling of loneliness within a gay community” CIS “, he chose a bleak mood.
“I grew up with the father of alcohol in the countryside of Denmark, as it is strange. Other people involved in the movie, and my producer and screenwriter brought light and humor to the story. I was attracted to the dark.”
“Initially, we had this classic narration about Johan being” the gay of the new sex in the city. “But we did not want your next typical story. He slowly gets rid of his classes. Who is this man? Do we have to fear or love him? His actions come from love But he does not know how to listen and become a big problem.
However, gravity cannot be denied. But the film’s sexual content was “fighting” for its director.
“We have cut a lot of intimate relationship, but it was not about showing a lot of skin: it was about the narration of this story in the right way. It is important to be exposed to different ways of sex, however, and different types of objects interact with each other closely I did not see it as this in other films and I think this is the reason that it took a long time to understand my sexual life.
In “sauna”, sex is “embarrassing, chaotic, beautiful and weak.”
Johann and William are trying to reach each other in a very sensitive way. I have this theory that if people are not in contact with their bodies, with lust and desire, it may be very overwhelming to see others exploring it (on the screen). It is not as if we were not exposed to it, but being in a public place with others, or perhaps your mother or partner, and the face of these pictures can be overwhelming. I think this is why people are afraid of sex in the movie. “
