A FORTUNATE MAN / Lykke-Per
MASSACHUSETTS PREMIERE
This epic drama from Academy Award–winning director Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) is gorgeously realized with dazzling cinematography, exceptional performances, sumptuous costume design, and period detail. In the 1880s, a gifted but self-destructive young man leaves his suffocating Lutheran upbringing in the country for metropolitan Copenhagen. An engineer with progressive ideas, he is welcomed by a wealthy Jewish family and ingratiates himself into their opulent milieu, embarking on a journey of personal and professional ambition that teeters on the razor’s edge between triumph and catastrophe. Told with a dramatic, romantic sweep on par with the great classics of cinema, A Fortunate Man is not to be missed. Adapted from Denmark’s canonical novel, Lykke-Per by Danish Nobel Prize–winning author Henrik Pontoppidan.
“August’s ensemble cast is splendid. The production is panoramic and glorious, filmed in Copenhagen, Jutland, Lolland, Funer, and parts of Austria. View it on the largest screen you can find.” —The Independent
Dir: Bille August | Denmark | 2018 | 162m | Danish & German w/ English subtitles
CO-PRESENTED BY: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University;
Center for German & European Studies at Brandeis University
PARTNER: Scandinavian Cultural Center
Watch The Trailer
Friday, May 10, 12:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre
SCREENING COMPLETED
Saturday, May 18, 6:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts (Remis)
SCREENING COMPLETED
* May 18 screening is after hours at the MFA.
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