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Princess

  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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Princess (2006)
AnimationActionDrama

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 t... Read allDue 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... Read allDue 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... Read all

  • Director
    • Anders Morgenthaler
  • Writers
    • Mette Heeno
    • Anders Morgenthaler
  • Stars
    • Thure Lindhardt
    • Stine Fischer Christensen
    • Jens Arentzen
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    2.8K
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    • Director
      • Anders Morgenthaler
    • Writers
      • Mette Heeno
      • Anders Morgenthaler
    • Stars
      • Thure Lindhardt
      • Stine Fischer Christensen
      • Jens Arentzen
    • 20User reviews
    • 52Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 10 nominations

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    Thure Lindhardt
    Thure Lindhardt
    • August
    • (voice)
    Stine Fischer Christensen
    Stine Fischer Christensen
    • Christina
    • (voice)
    Jens Arentzen
    Rasmus Bjerg
    Rasmus Bjerg
    Jiming Cai
    Liv Corfixen
    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
    Christian Tafdrup
    Christian Tafdrup
    • Charlie
    Peter van Hoof
    • Various Characters
    • (voice)
    Niels Weyde
    • Betjent Andersen
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Anders Morgenthaler
    • Writers
      • Mette Heeno
      • Anders Morgenthaler
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The film consists of 80% animation and 20% live action.
    • Connections
      Featured in Smagsdommerne: Episode #3.16 (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Hold On!
      Written by Sweatmaster

      Performed by Sweatmaster

    User reviews20

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    7/10
    Fresh of breath air.
    As the film festival winds down and all the big stars leave the city, the reality of returning back to the normal life begins to sink in. But it's not totally over yet. There is still one more day left, tomorrow I get to watch Sheitan, which hopefully isn't Sheity as the title somehow suggests. Tonight, I saw Princess, which was everything but sheity.

    Princess is a Denmark / German import that is comprised of 80% animation and 20% live action. The director, Anders Morgenthaler, puts together a picture that is definitely not something you see in theatres around here. There are a number of facets that make Morgenthaler's Princess stand up tall from the crowd (cliché #1). Firstly, the subject matter; the movie is about a priest who effectively quits his job and coherently scraps his religious beliefs when he allows his life to be rattled by rage and driven by violence. Secondly, the impetus behind the forthcoming violence has never been seen before. The priest (August) (Yes his name is also the name of the popular summer month) returns back to his hometown after hearing of his sister's death. What he learns from here only sickens his soul to the point of blinding his judgment of appropriate justice. He learns that his sister (Christina) (aka Princess) (her porn queen pseudonym) has died an unnecessary death due to the misogyny of Charlie, the president of Lust Paradise, the porno studio Christina worked for. Ironically, August the priest, reacts to this loss, not with sorrow and harmless grief, but with intense and violent vengeance.

    The third facet then is the path of destruction that August sets forth on -- towards his ultimate goal of murdering Charlie. This is not your typical Pixar movie which keeps kid audiences giggling and upbeat, but rather a much more subdued, dark movie that consistently permeates a tone that makes you feel sorry and more sorry for the characters on screen. Not mentioned yet, but absolutely crucial to the cohesiveness of the story is Mia, Christina's under-loved, abused and emotionally scarred daughter. After Christina's death, she is taken under August's wings. August solemnly tells Christina that he will take care of her and never let her go. It is through August's acquaintance with his alienated niece, that he finds the straw that breaks his camel's back (Grrrreat cliché #2). He learns that August was assaulted by Charlie and later discovers he even sexually molested Mia. The child has seen the world through the wrong glasses and this irritates August up and through to the existential plane of frustration. He believes Mia does not deserve to live in this kind of reality, and she doesn't need a matriarchal role model who has sex for a living. In a disturbing and emotionally awkward scene, Mia joins some children in the courtyard of August's apartment for a game of doctor. Since the roles of the doctor, nurse and patient were already taken - Mia feels obligated to succumb to the only role she knows; a whore. After announcing this, the children react apprehensively, but curiously play along. In the next cut, the nurse has left, leaving the doctor and the patient or the two boys with Mia, the whore. From a low angle, we see Mia almost teasing the boys with her skirt as she slowly lifts it up and over her crotch. Awed by this novel experience the boys dumbfoundedly ask what to do. From witnessing her mother on home movies, Mia naturally and naively tells one of the boys to get on top of her. At this point, the situation gets tense when one of the boys picks up a twig and connotatively suggests another fashion of entry. Mia still has some ounce of moral judgment to realize this is wrong and resists, but the boys push forward until --- oops, you'll have to watch the movie, because I'm getting drowsy!

    It is powerful scenes like this which poignantly drive the audience through a series of long thoughtful gazes to satisfying sentiments of fitting vengeance and brutalization (it's not healthy to repress anything, including our inner most prehistoric instincts!). Princess shines in a genre of it's own which resists calling itself: an action movie, a drama, a dark comedy, a cartoon, a live-action movie or an unsheity movie because Princess does not holistically fit into any one of these groups, because it belongs in all of them. Kudos to Denmark for releasing such an unbarred film that liberates viewers with a penchant for cerebral activity to think beyond convention!
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    • Release date
      • June 16, 2006 (Denmark)
    • Countries of origin
      • Denmark
      • Germany
    • Language
      • Danish
    • Also known as
      • Принцесса
    • Production companies
      • Shotgun Pictures
      • Zentropa Entertainments
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    • Budget
      • DKK 8,600,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $23,675
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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