Cinema
Re: Lone
Ang.: Lone
Franz Ernst · 1970
Synopsis
Lone, sixteen, runs away from the home for girls in Jutland where she has been placed. She goes to seek from her former foster parents an understanding that she does not find; the explanation turns into a confrontation and she leaves again for Copenhagen. There she drifts from one milieu to another, in the grey back courtyards of the capital, and meets Niels, with whom she discovers for the first time what a family is.
Context
The film was released on 29 June 1970. Produced by Mogens Skot-Hansen, its screenplay is co-written with the poet Charlotte Strandgaard; it was shot in black and white, with images by Peter Roos, and edited by Christian Hartkopp and Janus Billeskov Jansen. The music is by the group Fuzzy and by Kim Larsen, who makes his screen debut here in a small role. The title role is played by Pernille Kløvedal.
Who it is for
A little over an hour and a half, in Danish. A social drama filmed in the manner of a news report.
Prizes and reception
Bodil for Best Danish Film in 1971; distinguished at the Berlin festival the same year, then submitted by Denmark for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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