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  Encyclopedia: Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film is an Egmont electronic media production and distribution group that employs 1,090 people in six countries.
Nordisk Film Interactive has the exclusive distribution rights to SONY PlayStation products in the Nordic countries, and is thereby responsible for a substantial business area in the Nordisk Film.
Nordisk Film produces and co-produces national and international feature films in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which are distributed to cinemas around the Nordic countries, including Nordisk Film Cinemas in Denmark and Norway with approximately 16.000 seats.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nordisk-Film   (375 words)

  
 Valdemar Psilander - a World star in Danish film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He starred in innumerable formulaic films made by Nordisk Film's well-oiled machine, but he also displayed his acting talent in films that are today considered important and exceptional works of art from the period, for example Evangeliemandens Liv (The Candle and the Moth) in 1914 and Klovnen (The Clown) in 1916.
Nordisk needed talented and well-known actors in order to give the ultimate seal of approval to their films and thereby end the period where film was classified as low-status or fairground entertainment.
The film is one of the first in a long row of 'erotic melodramas' - a genre that almost became the trademark of Danish film abroad - and Psilander was born for this type of film with his masculine charm and elegant poise.
www.dfi.dk /sitemod/moduler/index.asp?pid=23110   (5042 words)

  
 Royal Danish Embassy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1929 Nordisk Film was re-established as a sound film company on the basis of the new sound system, and already 1930 saw the premiere of the first Scandinavian sound film (though without Danish dialogue) with the title Eskimo, which was a French, German and Norwegian co-production directed by George Schneevoigt.
Meanwhile Danish films were criticised for their poor quality, and in connection with new laws governing the cinema enacted 1933 and 1938 there was a discussion of how the survival and quality of Danish films could be ensured.
In the first modern Film Act of 1964, meanwhile, arrangements for subsidies to the cinema were introduced, and the Act gave support to film as a branch of art which nevertheless was still to derive much of its income from the sale of tickets.
www.danishembassy.ro /page.php?id=77   (4294 words)

  
 yritys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Based in Denmark, Nordisk Film is a leading Scandinavian producer of films and TV programs, with a total workforce of 400 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Today Nordisk Films operations are ranging from many genres of TV programs, feature films, animated films and commercial films through supply of post-production, translation, dubbing and localization services, and development of CD-ROM games.
Nordisk Film and TV Finland possesses versatile know-how of the industry, and counts all domestic TV channels among its customers.
www.nordiskfilmtv.fi /showpage.asp?target=08   (238 words)

  
 Danish Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nordisk film was often noted for its dramtic style of acting and Nielsen's versatility was especially shown from film to film, her portraying a different character with each new role.
In its use of interiors, the film appropriates private spaces into the public sphere, Dreyer later remarking that mise en scene could be used in the presentation of character, that the surroundings in which the character was shown could deepen the viewer's knowledge of and relation to the character during exposition.
The Danish Film Institute is devoting its Spring 2005 issue of its Film Magazine to note that it is the tenth year since the Dogme movement began, the issue including reprints of articles from 2002 about the films of Susanne Bier, Annette K Olsen, Soren Kragh Jacobsen.
scottlord.aaawebpage.com /danishfilm.html   (2356 words)

  
 Denmark - Culture - Cinema
The first film show in Denmark took place in June 1896 in the Panorama cinema on the Town Hall Square in Copenhagen, with a selection of films produced abroad.
The film was an erotic melodrama, and this became the preferred genre throughout the ensuing years' "golden age" of Danish film.
In 1911 Nordisk Film was the first of the major European companies to devote itself entirely to full-length feature films which could be sold in several hundred copies abroad.
www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap4/4-12.asp   (765 words)

  
 Cinema
Up to 1976, a total of 18 films were produced in the Morten Korch series, combining a special Danish popular comedy tradition with a reassuring portrayal of a rural environment at a time of frenzied modernisation.
The National Film School of Denmark was established in 1966 and the Film Act of 1972 founded the Danish Film Institute with responsibility for public subsidy of feature films.
As a result of the new Film Act of 1997, the Danish Film Institute was reconstituted as a unified organisation comprising the Government Film Office, the Danish Film Institute and the Danish Film Museum.
www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/FactsheetDenmark/Cinema/html/chapter02.htm   (1486 words)

  
 Dansk Filmfotograf Forbund - History
In the 1950's, when Danish cinematographers first met to discuss forming a society, the number of feature films produced in the country was between 25 and 30 each year.
Nordisk Film had through the years been joined by studios like ASA Film, Saga Film and Palladium.
Dansk Filmfotograf Forbund was founded in 1954 at the initiative of three photographers from Nordisk Film: Poul Pedersen, Jørgen Skov and Ove Hildebrand.
www.imago.org /dff/history.htm   (574 words)

  
 Screentalk International - Screenwriting In Denmark The State Of Our Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The tiny country of five million is experiencing the rejuvenation of its film industry for the first time since the Golden Age of Danish Film, in the early years of the century.
This is something that is slowly catching on at film schools throughout Europe, giving screenwriters the chance to make themselves indispensable and allowing them to see their screenplays up on the big screen, which is the most valuable learning experience.
Indeed, the buzzword within European film now is “co-production.” In many ways it is the quick answer to the financial hindrances in smaller European countries and it is a way to highlight the new "European" atmosphere that is gaining ground on the Continent.
www.scribevibe.com /international/denmark_international.php   (2496 words)

  
 Euro Kids
This film is one of the Giffoni Film Festival selection for the participants at "Focus on Europe - Kidflix Special".
In my previous shorts, I have had a theme of the end of childhood, as well as the life of teenagers in-between of youth and childhood, and felt that I should complete this in-a-way-trilogy, and tell a story about the changes when one turns from 17 years to 18, from youth to adulthood.
Though, in a feature film, the length of the package of 90 minutes is unique.
www.mediasalles.it /eurokids/film/onewaymombasa.htm   (1408 words)

  
 TARGIT – Business Intelligence Tools for Everyone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Not all of us in Nordisk Film Distribution are all familiar with Excel because it is not often that the advanced functions in Excel are being used.
Nordisk Film is the largest division in the Egmont Gruppen and market leader within development, production and distribution of films in the Nordic countries.
In 2002 Nordisk Film's turnover was EUR 433 millions and the company employed 1330 people.
www.targit.co.nz /Customers/Case_Stories/Nordisk_Film.aspx   (859 words)

  
 Filmkontakt Nord - Activity Report 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nordisk Panorama Event is the main platform for short films and documentaries in the Nordic region, offering an annual business venue and showcase, spanning all professional focus areas from development and financing to distribution and exhibition.
Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival presented 121 films, 64 of which were competing in the two competition programmes for the Nordic Awards for Best Short Film and Best Documentary.
During the 11th Nordisk Forum for Co-financing of Documentaries, 25 Nordic and Baltic projects were pitched to the 36 participating financiers.
www.filmkontakt.dk /fkn_site/rightMenu/activity.php   (953 words)

  
 Zodiak Television World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
MTV International’s relationship with Nordisk Film TV in the first instance is a representation deal that centres on two new entertainment formats.
Nordisk Film TV has produced ten new episodes for Danish TV audiences which premiered on the 4th September 2002.
Lars Mandal, Managing Director of Nordisk Film TV quoted on the new co-operation: ‘Based on the successful formats 71 Degrees North and Sensing Murder we are ready to conquer new markets with MTV International.
www.mtv.se /international/viewNews.asp?newsId=205   (582 words)

  
 I a m Dina
Egmont-owned Northern Lights and Nordisk Film were joined by co-producers Gemini Film, the German investment fund, Apollo Media and France's Mandarin Film.
The film was supported by the Scandinavian film institutes as well as The Nordic Film and TV Fund, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Eurimages.
She was on holiday in Norway last summer and saw in the newspapers that we were going to make a film of the book and so went back to Gérard and said, you should play Jacob'.
www.iamdina.com /eng/production/production.html   (958 words)

  
 Nyt Nordisk Film E-Pressen.dk
Det nye Nordisk Film favner alle dele af værdikæden i den elektroniske verden: udvikling, produktion, markedsføring og distribution af levende billeder i Norden.
Nordisk Film har en stærk placering både i Norden og internationalt.
Selskabets stifter Ole Olsen startede med baggrund som biografejer Nordisk Film Kompagni i 1906 og gik hermed dygtigt og innovativt ind i alle forretningsområder inden for film.
www.e-pressen.dk /shownews.php?id=14426   (748 words)

  
 The Stockholm Film Festival 1997: Northern Lights
That the film not only appeals to Norwegians, is proven by the fact that it has been sold to over 30 countries.
It is an unusually funny film, with a mixture of warm human compassion and dark humour.
The graphics that show the titles of the films are adapted to the airport theme, in that they look like the "revolving letters" on the large fl announcement boards at the airport.
www.filmfestivalen.se /1997/northernkat97.html   (1843 words)

  
 Screentalk International - Screenwriters Anonymous A.K.A The Arista Story Editor Workshop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Picture a conference room full of about forty people, who are all your peers in the film industry whether they are screenwriters, directors, producers or story editors.
Nordisk Film Studios, the oldest film company in the world, was the key player in the dominance of Danish film.
Danish films traveled extensively, through dozens of Nordisk offices in every important city in the world.
www.scribevibe.com /international/arista_international.php   (2359 words)

  
 Tvjournalist.dk - Tanja Joergensens website. Curriculum Vitae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I was the producer and videojournalist of a film for the World Diabetes Foundation.
I was the producer of two short films "The Greatest Burden" and "Much to be done" for the World Diabetes Foundation.
Interviews were used in the Image-film "Being There" to promote the new company of Novo Nordisk.
www.tvjournalist.dk /english/cv.html   (534 words)

  
 Release.no - Ny sjef for Nordisk Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rune Rødland (38) er den nye toppsjefen for Nordisk Film i Norge.
Steinar Johansen trer av og Rune Rødland overtar som sjef for den norske videoavdelingen i Nordisk Film.
Nordisk Film har endret strukturen i toppen av alle de lokale avdelingene.
www.release.no /content/news/39216657   (289 words)

  
 Nordiska rådet / Nordiska ministerrådet
Nordisk film och den internationella marknaden (ANP 2003:715) - Tryckt and utgivet - Nordiska rådet / Nordiska ministerrådet
Nordisk film och den internationella marknaden (ANP 2003:715)
The aim was to learn from experience and develop new tools for the further development of Nordic film.
www.norden.org /pub/kultur/kultur/sk/ANP03_715.asp   (251 words)

  
 Nordisk Film International Sales +45 33 26 68 80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nordisk Film International Sales +45 33 26 68 80
The main character in the film, John, has just been left by his partner Ingrid.
As he one day runs into his two beautiful neighbours Anne and Kim, he allows himself to be seduced, and is drawn into a game in which he finds it increasingly impossible to distinguish between truth and lies.
www.sales.nordiskfilm.com /ws/E_NewTitles.asp?film=765   (135 words)

  
 Nordisk Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nordisk Film dates back to 1906, making it the world's oldest production company.
Nordisk Film holds the Nordic rights for the distribution of Sony PlayStation and owns cinemas in Denmark and Norway.
Critically acclaimed, the film received the prestigious Camera d'Or award at Cannes 2003, and was recipient of a FIPRESCI Award in San Sebastian, Haugesund and Montevideo.
www.dfi.dk /sitemod/moduler/index_english.asp?pid=12910   (683 words)

  
 'Johnny Was' completes principal photography
Johnny Was, a thriller feature film set in Brixton, has finished 31 days of principal photography in Belfast and London.
Writer-producer Brendan Foley, a former journalist who normally works in Los Angeles and London, also author of recent WWII UK best-seller ‘Under The Wire’, returned to his native Belfast with Johnny Was and praised the caliber of the international cast and mainly local crew.
The film now moves to post-production at Nordisk facilities in Copenhagen for release in 2006.
www.4rfv.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=43153   (682 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Through Nordisk Film, Egmont has invested in Pinkfloor A/S - the company behind the interactive entertainment universe "PowerBabe" and other games.
Nordisk Film TV Production is also working with Pinkfloor on a game show pilot.
NORDISK FILM is a division in the Egmont group and market leader within
www.pinkfloor.dk /html/egmont_press_uk.html   (430 words)

  
 COUNTRIES D-J page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
I know of two science fiction films shot on location in Hungary: * A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) * Terminus (1986) Hungary, by the way, is one of the 15 countries that accesses the Magic Dragon web domain roughly once a week, but less than 10 times per month on the average.
I know of one science fiction film shot on location in Iceland: * Independence Day (1996) Iceland, by the way, is one of the 45 countries that accesses the Magic Dragon web domain occasionally, but less than once a week on the average.
Minor Update of 10 Oct 1998: Films [First paragraphs significantly expanded 2 Aug 1997] Israel as the Birthplace of Science Fiction: Science Fiction was born in what is now Israel, in the 3rd Century B.C., with the Apocryphal Books of Enoch.
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/countriesDJ.html   (8249 words)

  
 Nordisk Filmpakke - Nordisk identitet?
Hvis du læser filmanmeldelser eller hører nordiske film omtalt, står der ofte at filmen har en særlig nordisk tone.
Nordisk Skolenett er en tjeneste fra Nordisk Ministerråd
Plone makes heavy use of CSS, which means it is accessible to any internet browser, but the design needs a standards-compliant browser to look like we intended it.
www.nordskol.org /film/nordisk   (193 words)

  
 Lexikonia - informations about Nordisk Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nordisk Film er et Danmark filmselskab, som blev stiftet 1906 af Ole Olsen.
Allerede i 1908 blev der produceret mere end 100 film om ?t.
Nordisk Film producerer ikke blot film og tv-programmer, men st?ogs?or driften af en stor del af Danmarks biografer.
www.lexikonia.net /40358_nordisk_film.htm   (73 words)

  
 DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison "All Things Fair" Home Vision - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Nordisk Film - Region 2 - PAL
The image of Nordisk Film is more correctly pale (neutral) than Home Vision, and sharper in detail.
The Nordisk Film DVD has the correct running length of the film of 2:04:45 (125 minutes).
The Nordisk Film DVD comes with a 10 minute review of the film including an interview with Bo Widerberg.
www.dvdbeaver.com /FILM/DVDCompare7/allthingsfair.htm   (480 words)

  
 Nordisk yn mynd yn ddigidol - Sgrîn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When Ole Olsen opened Biografteatret in Copenhagen in 1905, he laid the foundation for the oldest film company in the world, Nordisk Film, which now, 100 years later, is moving into the digital age.
As the first in the country, the Nordic distribution and exhibition major will be equipping its three main sites with digital projectors.
The company's 1,100 seat Crown Cinema Imperial in Copenhagen, which opened in 1961, as well as smaller screens in the Nordisk's biggest multiplexes Palads (Copenhagen) and BioCity (Aarhus), will have the new equipment installed for the Aug 20 digital premiere of I, Robot.
www.sgrin.co.uk /2033.html?LanguageId=toggle   (189 words)

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