Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Berlinale Special 2018
SWE/DEU/DNK 2018
by: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Alba August, Marius Damslev
Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Berlinale Special 2018
SWE/DEU/DNK 2018
by: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Alba August
Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Berlinale Special 2018
SWE/DEU/DNK 2018
by: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Alba August
Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Berlinale Special 2018
SWE/DEU/DNK 2018
by: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Henrik Rafaelsen, Alba August
Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Berlinale Special 2018
SWE/DEU/DNK 2018
by: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Alba August
Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Berlinale Special 2018
SWE/DEU/DNK 2018
by: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Feb 21, 2018Alba August, Henrik Rafaelsen, Pernille Fischer Christensen
The actors and the director at the Photo Call.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Alba August, Pernille Fischer Christensen
The actress and the director at the Photo Call.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Alice Stenberg
The actress on the Red Carpet at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Alba August
The actress on the Red Carpet at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Henrik Rafaelsen
The actor on the Red Carpet at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Alba August
The actress giving an Interview on the Red Carpet at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Henrik Rafaelsen, Alba August, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Dieter Kosslick
The film team and the festival director at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Alba August, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Alice Stenberg, Dieter Kosslick
The film team and the festival director at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Pernille Fischer Christensen
The director at the premiere at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Alba August
The leading actress at the premiere at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018Alice Stenberg
The actress at the premiere at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 21, 2018 Pernille Fischer Christensen, Kim Fupz Aakeson, Costanza Bani, Alba August, Henrik Rafaelsen
The film team at the Press Conference.
Berlinale Special – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Feb 22, 2018Pernille Fischer Christensen
The director on stage at the neighbourhood cinema Neues Off.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Unga Astrid | Becoming Astrid
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Henrik Rafaelsen
Alba August
Kim Fupz Aakeson (Screenwriter). Henrik Rafaelsen (Actor), Pernille Fischer Christensen (Director, Screenwriter), Alba August (Actress), Maria Dahlin (Producer)
Moderation: Nikolaj Nikitin
Astrid and her siblings count themselves lucky to be growing up on their parents’ parsonage farm in Vimmerby. Although their daily routine is shaped by strict religious values, their mother Hanna and father Samuel always manage to give them security and a sense of freedom. Astrid’s parents enable her to attend a secondary school that would normally be the preserve of wealthy bourgeois kids, and they do not get in the way of the 18-year-old when the owner of the local newspaper offers her a position as a volunteer in the editorial office. Not only does Reinhold Blomberg teach her to proof-read and write texts, he also falls in love with her. When she becomes pregnant, Astrid makes a momentous decision: she refuses to marry him and instead decides to take care of herself and her son Lasse on her own.
In her film about the youth of the writer Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002), Pernille Fischer Christensen portrays a strong, independent young woman who breaks social norms and faces difficult decisions with courage. Alba August plays Astrid as both wild and thoughtful, a responsible young woman battling her own feelings of guilt.
by
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Sweden / Germany / Denmark 2018
Swedish, Danish
123’ · Colour
World premiere
Alba August (Astrid)Maria Bonnevie (Hanna)Trine Dyrholm (Marie)Henrik Rafaelsen (Blomberg)Magnus Krepper (Samuel)Björn Gustafsson (Sture Lindgren)
Recognised as one of Denmark’s most successful directors, she won her first prize in 1999 at the Cannes Film Festival for her short film Indien which she made during her training at the National Film School of Denmark. Her debut feature film En Soap (A Soap) celebrated its world premiere at the 2006 Berlinale and won the Silver Bear and the Best First Feature Award. En familie (A Family) also screened in the Berlinale Competition and won the FIPRESCI award. Her most recent appearance at the Berlinale was with En du elsker (Someone You Love) in 2014.
Filmography1995 Honda Honda; short 1997 Pigen som var søster; short 1999 Indien; short 2002 Habibti min elskede; short 2006 En Soap (A Soap) 2008 Dansen (Dancers) 2010 En familie (A Family) 2014 En du elsker (Someone You Love) 2018 Unga Astrid (Becoming Astrid)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
Avanti Filmwww.avantifilm.se
Nordisk Film Production Sverige
TrustNordiskwww.trustnordisk.com