Title: The Commune
Directors: Thomas Vinterberg
Screenplay: Tobias Lindholm
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Lars Ranthe, Fares Fares
Editing: Anne Østerud, Janus Billeskov Jansen
Production: Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Morten Kaufmann (Zentropa Entertainments)
Year: 2015
Country: Denmark
Length: 111 min
Erik and Anna are a professional couple with a dream. Along with their daughter Freja, they set up a commune in Erik’s huge villa in the upmarket district of Copenhagen. With the family at the center of the story, we are invited into the dream of a real commune; we participate in the house meetings, dinners and parties. It is friendship, love and togetherness under one roof until an earth-shattering love affair puts the community and the commune to its greatest test.
Biography
The Copenhagen-born director, Thomas Vinterberg, got his start by training at the Danish Film Academy and made his breakthrough on the international music scene with the film Festen (The Celebration) in 1998. Festen was also the first film that was produced out of the artistic movement Dogme 95, co-created by Vintenberg.
After the first ‘Dogme film’ Vintenberg directed many critically acclaimed films such as Submarino (2010), on the consequences of a lack of empathy, was widely praised, and Jagten (The Hunt, 2012), which traces the ostracism of a male nursery teacher falsely accused of sexual abuse.