Tove's Room

Story

Writing as protection and speaking as aggression: a day in the life of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen. Copenhagen 1963. Tove Ditlevsen and her husband, the well-known newspaper editor der Victor Andresen, are making their married life hell. The successful author of life plans for women sees through her husband’s inferiority complexes, yet still puts up with his humiliating behaviour. He is the one who controls her drug abuse and repeated referrals to psychiatric wards – the only place she really manages to find the peace to write. Their power struggle needs an audience: a guest comes to lunch and gets caught up in the intellectual and emotional carnage.

 

 

Kindly supported by ST. PAULI THEATER

Director

MARTIN ZANDVLIET (*1971) began his career as an editor. FILMFEST HAMBURG showed his films Applause (2009) and Land of Mine (2015), which was also Denmark’s Oscar entry.

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