Pan (1995 film)

Pan
Directed by	Henning Carlsen
Produced by	Axel Helgeland
Written by	Knut Hamsun (novel); Henning Carlsen (script)
Starring	Sofie Gråbøl, Lasse Kolsrud, Bjørn Sundquist, Anneke von der Lippe, Per Schaanning
Music by	Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Cinematography	Henning Kristiansen
Edited by	Anders Refn
Release date	22 September 1995;
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Denmark, Norway, Germany
Language	Danish and Norwegian

Pan (also released under the title Two Green Feathers) is a 1995 Danish/Norwegian/German film directed by the Danish director Henning Carlsen. It is based on Knut Hamsun's 1894 novel of the same name, and also incorporates the short story "Paper on Glahn's Death", which Hamsun had written and published earlier, but which was later appended to editions of the novel.[1] It is the fourth and most recent film adaptation of the novel—the novel was previously adapted into motion pictures in 1922, 1937, and 1962.

Production

In 1966 Carlsen had directed an acclaimed version of Hamsun's Hunger. Thirty years later he returned to Hamsun to make Pan, a book he called "one big poem".[2] The film was produced primarily with Norwegian resources, and classified as a Norwegian film; Carlsen later expressed his dissatisfaction with the film's promotion by the Norwegian Film Institute, saying that the Institute had preferred to promote films with Norwegian directors. Carlsen said that he had decided to incorporate the "forgotten" material from "Glahn's Death" in order to find a "new angle" for filming the book.[1] The Glahn's Death portion was filmed in Thailand, standing in for the India location in the novel (the 1922 film version had placed this material in Algeria).[3]

The film had its American premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of MOMA's 1995 retrospective of films based on Hamsun's work.[2]

Awards

Anneke von der Lippe won the 1995 Norwegian International Film Festival's Amanda Award for Best Actress for her work in Pan and another film, Over stork og stein. She also won the 1996 Danish Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actress for Pan.

Cast

Sofie Gråbøl as Edvarda Mack
Lasse Kolsrud as Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
Bjørn Sundquist as Ferdinand Mack
Anneke von der Lippe as Eva
Per Schaanning as the Doctor
Peter Striebeck as the Baron
Shaun Lawton as the Hunter

gollark: ↓ tan line

gollark: Ideally we would be believing things based on whether they're actually true/well-evidenced or not, instead of aesthetics or whether or not persecuted minorities believe them, but whatever.

gollark: I do not think *anyone* should have a monopoly on particular ideas/beliefs.

gollark: Yes, gatekeeping religious concepts is vaguely weird.

gollark: He was quite clearly a lich.

References

Mette Hjort & Ib Bondebjerg, The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema (Intellect Books, 2003), ISBN 978-1-84150-841-2, pp. 54-57. Excerpts available at Google Books.
Jean Nathan, "Film; A Writer Who Means Norway to Movie Makers", The New York Times, November 5, 1995.
Arne Lund, "Knut Hamsun at the movies in transnational contexts", Nordlit, vol. 25, pp. 43, 48.

External links

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[Hjort-1] Mette Hjort & Ib Bondebjerg, The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema (Intellect Books, 2003), ISBN 978-1-84150-841-2, pp. 54-57. Excerpts available at Google Books.

[NYT-2] Jean Nathan, "Film; A Writer Who Means Norway to Movie Makers", The New York Times, November 5, 1995.

[3] Arne Lund, "Knut Hamsun at the movies in transnational contexts", Nordlit, vol. 25, pp. 43, 48.