Princess (2006)

Due to his sister's death, the 32 year old August returns and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as ... See full summary »

Director:

Anders Morgenthaler

Writers:

Mette Heeno, Anders Morgenthaler

Stars:

Thure Lindhardt, Stine Fischer Christensen, Jens Arentzen

4 wins & 10 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Thure Lindhardt	...	August (voice)
Stine Fischer Christensen	...	Christina (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jens Arentzen
Rasmus Bjerg
Jiming Cai
Liv Corfixen	...	Luder i bil (voice)
Ida Dwinger	...	Mor (voice)
Mira Hilli Møller Hallund	...	Mia (voice)
Rikke Hallund
Henrik Ipsen	...	Caretaker
Tommy Kenter	...	Preben (voice)
Margrethe Koytu	...	Karen (voice)
Søren Lenander	...	Sonny (voice)
Karen Rosenberg	...	Kvinde (voice)
Campbell Snavely	...	Lead

Storyline

Due to his sister's death, the 32 year old August returns and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as the famous porn-star The Princess, is dead after years of drug abuse. She leaves behind her 5-year old daughter Mia, whom August feels obliged to take care of. Weighed down by grief and guilt he decides to revenge the dead of Christina - and takes Mia on a mission to destroy all existing pornographic material featuring The Princess. The mission escalates into a brutal and violent rout, where August is desperately trying to protect the only precious thing in his life, Mia, why he is forced to make a fatal decision.

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Plot Keywords:

crying baby | video camera | filming | girl | video | 

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Denmark Germany

Language:

Danish

Release Date:

16 June 2006 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Hercegnő

Box Office

Budget:

DKK 8,600,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shotgun Pictures,Zentropa Entertainments

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film consists of 80% animation and 20% live action.

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Connections

Featured in Smagsdommerne: Episode #3.16 (2006)

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Soundtracks

Solskinsbørn
Written by Jakob Garfield-Havsteen (as Jakob Garfield Mortensen)
Performed by Rikke Mortensen

User Reviews

Gets progressively better as the film goes on

I knew nothing about this going in and it's not easy to tell what's going on for a good while. The plot reveals itself in a different way than most movies do and until there's a general idea of what's happening, the movie seems like an adult swim knock-off wannabe.

However, once everything is set into place, it's very gripping and stays with you until the end with a great story plus wonderful character depth and development.

The film is part animation and part grainy digital video. The digital video is used to represent a character who is no longer alive shown through home movies at random insertions. The home movies style kinda detracts from the story but it's not all bad, there's an interesting scene where a car crash from the outside is animated and from inside is shown with the grainy video.

Although, for the most part there's animation which is spectacular. I'm not sure if it's a company located outside of the country the film comes from but it's not in the exaggerated anime style. That means the animation is there but you're able to actually focus on the story. The style of animation also makes the violence pretty graphic. Understand that this is an R rated movie for a reason and some parts even in animation are tough to take in.

With proper distribution, this could become a midnight movie cult classic.