PACT, THE (2021)
Special Features: U.S. Premiere
[PAGTEN]
It's 1948 and 63-year-old "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) (Birthe Neumann, THE CELEBRATION, IN A BETTER WORLD) is at the pinnacle of her fame, and considered to be next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. But she lives a lonely life, until the day she meets a talented 30-year-old poet, Thorkild Bjørnvig (Simon Bennebjerg). She promises him literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally — even at the cost of forsaking everything else in his life. From celebrated director Bille August (Academy Award® and Palme d'Or-winning PELLE THE CONQUEROR) comes this sterling adaptation of Bjørnvig's bestselling memoir, "Pagten." (Note adapted from Juno Films.) DIR Bille August; SCR Christian Torpe, from the memoir by Thorkild Bjørnvig; PROD Jesper Morthorst, Karin Trolle. Denmark, 2021, color, 115 min. In Danish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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Run Time: 115 Minutes
Opening Date: Thursday, December 02, 2021
Genre: Drama