31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE/EUROPOP

MONICA Z

WALTZ FOR MONICA
by Per Fly
Country: Sweden
Year: 2013
Duration: 111'


Monica is a Swedish country girl who dreams of the electric atmosphere of city jazz clubs. Determined to follow her dreams, she becomes a well-known singer and actress, loved and feted by the artists and bohemians who surround her. But the girl is both sophisticated and naïve and the price she has to pay for her fame is high. She feels increasingly isolated after a long series of love stories that ended badly and promises that weren’t kept. And nothing is more painful than waking up alone in the morning with a cocktail in hand. Based on a true story.

Biography

film director

Per Fly

Per Fly (Denmark, 1960) debuted with the short Kalder Katrine (1994) and after directing a few series for Danish TV and the animated film Prop og Berta (2000) returned to cinema with the feature-length The Bench (2000), the first movie of the so-called “class trilogy” which analyzes social divisions at the dawn of the third millennium. The other two movies of the project are The Inheritance (2003) and Manslaughter (2005); this latter film received awards at various international festivals. In 2007 he directed the six episodes of the TV series Forestillinger.

FILMOGRAFIA

Kalder Katrine (cm, 1994), Tv-Ansjosen (tv, 1995), Så du ansjosen (1995), Chock 4 - Liftarflickan (tv, 1997), Texa (tv, 1997), Bænken (La panchina, 2000), Prop og Berta (2000), Arven (L’eredità, 2003), Drabet (Gli innocenti, 2005), Forestillinger (tv, 2007), The Woman Who Dreamed About a Man (2010), Monica Z (2013).

Declaration

film director

“As a young child, I had seen pictures of her [Monica Zetterlung]; she was so sexy and her singing was so beautiful. I remembered her as a person who had a huge appetite for life. She was very strong-willed, talented and took men when she wanted. I knew that at the end she had tragically died alone in the fire of her Stockholm apartment. Between those two characters I thought there must be a big dilemma. I wanted to show that her life was one big adventure but also a big tragedy.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Per Fly
SCENEGGIATURA
Peter Birro
FOTOGRAFIA
Eric Kress
MONTAGGIO
Åsa Mossberg
SCENOGRAFIA
Josefin Åsberg
COSTUMI
Kicki Ilander
MUSICA
Peter Nordahl
SUONO
Hans Møller
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Edda Magnason (Monica Zetterlund), Sverrir Gudnason (Sture Åkerberg), Kjell Bergqvist (Bengt)
PRODUTTORE
Lena Rehnberg
PRODUZIONE
Stellanova Film
COPRODUZIONE
Film i Väst AB, Sveriges Television AB, Eyeworks Fine & Mellow, AB Svensk Filmindustri, Danmarks Radio TV
DISTRIBUZIONE
AB Svensk Filmindustri
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