The Talking Muse
OT: Den Talende Muse
Torben Skjødt Jensen // Denmark, 2003
Documentary Feature // FF2003
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Story
With her huge eyes, thin lips, mask-like face and her slim, boyish figure, Asta Nielsen was the first big screen diva. She starred in 74 films from 1920 to 1932. This documentary shows archive footage from various periods in her life (she died in 1972), affording a glimpse of her private life which remained screened off from public view. This included her “salon” in her Berlin apartment for the intelligentsia of the day, such as Thomas Mann and the Einsteins. Director Torben Skjødt Jensen also has a previously unknown gem – Asta Nielsen’s voice, in recorded phone conversations with her friend, Frede Smith, an antiquarian bookseller in Copenhagen.
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Den Talende Muse
Documentary Feature
Danish
Offizielles Programm//FF2003
Denmark
2003
100 min
OV
Torben Skjødt Jensen
Torben Skjødt Jensen
Asta Nielsen
Torben Skjødt Jensen
Torben Skjødt Jensen
Oliver Bugge Coutté
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR TV International Sales, TV-Centre, 280 Soeborg, Denmark, Tel: +45 35 20 30 40, Fax: +45 35 20 39 69, e-mail: drsales@dr.dk
Point of No Return Productions, Gersonsvej 17, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark, Tel: +45 3961 1681, Fax: +45 3961 1683, e-mail: vi@pointofnoreturn.dk
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