Cinema
Weekend
Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt · 1962
Synopsis
On a summer weekend, three well-off couples in their thirties gather at Knud and Bet's holiday home by the sea. The hosts bicker even before the guests arrive, and the other two couples, Jan and Ilse, Kjeld and Tove, are no more willing to be there. Only Lars, the bachelor of the group, is in good form and constantly makes cutting remarks. A well-lubricated lunch eases the atmosphere, then the group goes for a trip into town.
Context
The screenplay is by Klaus Rifbjerg, and it is, according to the Danish Film Museum, which printed it the same year, the first important work that a Danish writer wrote directly for the screen; no Danish screenplay had yet been published. Produced by Bent Christensen, shot on images by Georg Oddner and with music by Erik Moseholm, the film was released on 29 October 1962. It did poorly at the box office, but its portrait of the thirty-somethings of the welfare state prompted a wide debate in the press.
Who it is for
Less than an hour and a half, in Danish. Almost everything comes through conversation, written by a novelist.
Prizes and reception
Bodil for best Danish film in 1963; regarded by the Danish Film Institute as the work of the breakthrough of the Danish new wave.
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