The Danish director, Mads Hedegaard, had to create new languages of the Stone Age “Strang”.
“I have a background in documentaries (‘Cannon Arm and Arcade Quest’), so she had to feel the audience. I was like:” We will not buy it if the actors spoke in Danish or English. ” diverse Before the GoteBorg movie is in Sweden, where the final festival movie is.
“There was a man I knew; he had a doctorate in Brito -Indo -India. But even that is 2000 years older than those in our story. Old.
“Later, Tobias was also on a group, where he helped pronounce. I think this may have been the most difficult part of making it the whole thing working, but we were in it together. It was very amazing to finally watch it in life.”
Angela Bondalovich, Danika Corsic, Benjamin Instrom Charifzadeh, Mary Kis and Sandor Fontic in the story full of movement that is around 4000 BC. In this, a young man and her family decided to explore the Southern Scandinavian countries: they are the first farmers to settle in the region. But when the Hunter tribe attacks them, they join them to survive.
When we think about the Stone Age, we think of the warriors. Her story is more humane: It is not about fighting and going to war only. It is also related to society and passes things. ”
Produced by Andreas Hjortdal, it is sold by the re -invention diverse.
HEDEGAARD and his team talked about “Apocalypto” and “The Revenant” from Mel Gibson and “The Revenant”, but they soon realized that they were entering an unknown land – just like their heroes.
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“There are not many films in the Stone Age. We had to reach everything ourselves. There was a lot of research concerned. We talked to prehistoric experts about the basic things:“ How did the ax and their clothes appear? How did they build their homes? ”
Despite the chase of originality, the world that shows it, with its raging fires and the people who are afraid of “others”, from change and progress, appears amazing – unfortunately – familiar.
“We believe that people in the Stone Age lived in the caves and wandered with their clubs, and this is the matter. They were” animal “. But they have concepts of jealousy and hatred, all these things that we know only well, and they were just like us today, except for our technology. Some say some. Egypt or ancient Greece was the weeds of civilization – I would like to claim that the time is the place that started everything.
“Likewise, climate change, as you can say, as people started cutting trees and burning forests to make room for their growing fields. It is a story that revolves in circles. It started at that time but it is the same. We didn’t become wise.”
As a director, Hedegaard was not at all in a “real” group before, joking.
“I came from a documentary and suddenly standing in a guest forest, running a crew of 100 people. It was very difficult, but we were trying something new: How fun was this?”
However, despite the scale, the story always comes first.
“I love building the world. I like to do it again, but yes, it is always a story. For me, the” strange “is essentially about meeting people. We can do this with respect, or we can do this with bias. I don’t want to claim I know what is right and what is wrong, but I hope this movie will think about it.
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