A SERIOUS GAME

By Pernilla August

FACTS

Title: A SERIOUS GAME
Original title: DEN ALVARSAMMA LEKEN
Director: Pernilla August
Cast: Sverrir Gudnason, Karin Franz Körlof, Liv Mjönes, Michael Nyqvist, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Genre: Period Drama
Duration: 120 min
Language: SWEDISH
Additional Languages: Norwegian
Country of origin: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Scriptwriter: Lone Scherfig
Cinematographer: Erik Molberg Hansen
Editor: Åsa Mossberg
Production Company: B-Reel Films
Producers: Patrik Andersson, Frida Bargo, Fredrik Heinig
Production year: 2016
Executive producers: Mattias Nohrborg
Budget EUR: 5M
Local release: 09-09-2016
Film status: Internationally Premiered

A SERIOUS GAME is the story of a young couple, the journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and Lydia Stille, who fall madly in love. They are both drawn to the dream of pure, great and untainted love. Yet, the dream demands greater sacrifice than they could ever imagine. A passionate and fiery love story about the choices we have, the ones we don´t, the choices we make and the consequences that follows.

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LATEST NEWS

Berlin: Pernilla August Brings Her Best ‘Game’ to the Festival
16. February 2016
PRESS RELEASE: A SERIOUS GAME SELECTED FOR BERLIN
18. January 2016
CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE LONE SCHERFIG-SCRIPTED, PERNILLA…
3. October 2014

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Festival overview

Berlin Film Festival
2016-02-11

Edinburgh Int. FF
2016-06-15

Espoo Ciné International Film Festival
2016-08-19

Mill Valley FF, California
2016-10-06