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Tuesday, January 17 at 7:30pm Michael-Ann Russell JCC
Wednesday, January 25 at 2:00pm Coral Gables Art Cinema
Streaming January 18-25, 2023 Digital Screening Room

Denmark | 152 minutes | 2022

Out of the Darkness

International Premiere

An epic and beautifully shot family saga set in Denmark during World War II and directed by one of Scandinavia’s preeminent living filmmakers, Out of the Darkness centers on the Skov family as they try to balance their country’s failing economy, political differences, and the brutality of the German occupation forces. Unfolding from the spring of 1943 to the summer of 1945, the story follows the family’s eldest son Aksel, who has become a hard-boiled partisan after leaving his family to join the resistance movement. As the Danish coalition government collapses, the patriarch Karl (Jesper Christensen, from James Bond’s Casino Royale) is forced to take drastic action to protect his family assets by further collaborating with the Germans, while at the same trying to save his Jewish secretary and her grandson. Each member of the family represents different ways the German occupation inspired non-Jews to resist or collaborate (and sometimes do both simultaneously), with no one able to escape the consequences of their choices unscathed.

Accompanying the film premiere is a discussion with director Anders Refn and moderator Rabbi Efrat Zarren Zohar, Executive Director of CAJE. To view the conversation please click here.

Director's Bio

Directed by Anders Refn

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Anders Refn graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1969, and has had a career with credits for 72 feature films and TV series. He has also worked as Lars von Trier’s editor on a number of films, including Breaking the Waves (1996) and Antichrist (2009), as well as assistant director of Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac (2013). In 2004, Anders was awarded an Honorary Bodil Award for his overall career achievement in Danish film.

Cast and Credits

Director

Anders Refn

Screenwriter

Flemming Quist Møller, Anders Refn

Cinematographer

Claus Sisseck, Morten Søborg

Editor

Michael Aaglund

Cast

Jesper Christensen, Bodil Jørgensen, Mads Reuther

Film Info

Year

2022

Country

Denmark

Run-time

152 minutes

Language

Danish with English subtitles
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