Daybreak (Om jag vänder mig om)
“Once you've experienced Daybreak, it's unlikely you'll forget it” – The New York Times
”Superb… exquisite… Ibsen and Strindberg will be wishing they’d been born in the screen age” - Uncut Magazine
Three episodes, full of grotesque details and loosely interwoven at the end of the film, recounting tales of lies, self-deception and other human frailties.
Agnes and Rickard are planning to move to another town. One evening, they invite their best friends round for a farewell meal. By the next morning, things have come to light that rock the couple’s relationship to the core.
Anders is a bricklayer by trade. He works day and night to earn money for the things he believes his family needs. One evening an elderly married couple offer him an illegal job for cash in hand that he just can’t turn down.
Anita hasn’t seen her ex-husband for three years. At the time, he married a woman 25 years his junior. Suddenly, an opportunity arises for Anita to pay a visit to her ex in order to obtain some answers to a few rather important questions.
— Berlinale 2004
Written by Björn Runge
Directed by Björn Runge
Producer Mattias Nohrborg
Release Date 16 September 2005 (UK)
Cinematography Ulf Brantås
Editor Lena Runge
CAST
Pernilla August
Jakob Eklund
Ann Petrén
Magnus Krepper
Marie Richardson
Peter Andersson
Ingvar Hirdwall
Sanna Krepper
Leif André
BJÖRN’S THOUGHTS
Following my TV series Andersson's Mistress (Anderssons älskarinna), I knew I wanted to narrate from a more female perspective. I authored two different scripts that in the end merged into one. I presented myself an ultimatum: This would be my last movie, or my first one. This film changed my life.
Awards
Berlin Film Festival 2004 - Blue Angel for Best European Film
Berlin Film Festival 2004 - Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Greta Award (Swedish Association of Film Critics Award)
Gothenburg Film Festival - (the Audience prize)
4 Guldbagge Awards (best director, best script, best female leading actor and best supporting male actor).
Moscow Film Festival (best female actor for Pernilla August)
Festroia International Film Festival - Signis Award for Ann Petrén
Sao Paolo Film Festival - best film
Guldsolen from Nils Petter Sundgren 2003 - Ann Petrén
Nominations
Golden Berlin Bear 2004 - Björn Runge
Golden Dolphin - Festroia International Film Festival
“The reality is a continuous ongoing. Presence which floats ahead invisibly unstructured as a never ending river. Reality can only be described when you clash it with your memories, experiences and imaginations”
– Björn in a thesis written by Adina Ståhle at Lund University. Read more
32 Dagar och Nätter
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