Directed by:
Hlynur PálmasonScreenplay:
Hlynur PálmasonCinematography:
Maria von HausswolffComposer:
Toke Brorson OdinCast:
Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lars Mikkelsen, Michael Brostrup, Anders Hove, Peter Plaugborg, Birgit Thøt Jensen (more)Plots(1)
Draw a breath of frosty air, inhale the snow, and give yourself over to the strangest winter journey you have ever experienced at the movies. Surrealistic, absurd, with stains of black humor on white snow, this film by Hlynur Pálmason takes us to a workers' village in the middle of the forest. Two brothers live here, as you might expect in a fairytale, the younger of which makes moonshine, desperately longs for love and keeps repeating that everyone has a dark side. Here, the metaphor for that dark side is a mine, where headlamps barely break through the darkness while tension slowly simmers between the laboring men. Visual, surprising and with intensively powerful images, Winter Brothers is about what is hidden deep within: rivalry, aggression, and desire for revenge, all of which hurt and destroy when released from the deep shafts of the human soul. But it's also about everything that can push back that darkness. (New Horizons International Film Festival)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 2018 - Hlynur Pálmason, Julie Waltersdorph Hansen, Per Damgård Hansen (Best Danish Film)
- 2018 - Hlynur Pálmason (Best Director)
- 2018 - Elliott Crosset Hove (Best Actor in a Leading Role)
- 2018 - Victoria Carmen Sonne (Best Actress in a Supporting Role)
- 2018 - Maria von Hausswolff (Best Cinematography)
- 2018 - Gustav Pontoppidan (Best Production Design)
- 2018 - Nina Grønlund (Best Costume Design)
- 2018 - Katrine Tersgov (Best Make-Up)
- 2018 - Lars Halvorsen (Best Sound)
- 2018 - Lars Mikkelsen (Best Actor in a Supporting Role)
- 2018 - Simon Sears (Best Actor in a Supporting Role)
- 2018 - Hlynur Pálmason (Best Original Screenplay)
- 2018 - Julius Krebs Damsbo (Best Editing)
- 2018 - Toke Brorson Odin (Best Score)
Miami Film Festival
- 2018 - Hlynur Pálmason (Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award)