OPEN HEARTS 

By Susanne Bier

FACTS

Title: OPEN HEARTS 
Original title: ELSKER DIG FOR EVIGT 
Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Nikolai Lie Kaas
Genre: Drama
Duration: 113 min
Language: Danish
Country of origin: Denmark
Scriptwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen 
Cinematographer: Morten Søborg
Editor: Pernille Bech Christensen, Thomas Kragh 
Producers: Vibeke Windeløv 
Production year: 2002
Executive producers: Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Local release: 01-01-2002
Film status: Internationally Premiered

A young couple is looking forward to their wedding when an accident befalls them. It's like a blade into their life, for better and for worse. The ""worse"" is the event as it takes place the ""better"" is what happens afterwards...

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Festival overview

Toronto Film Festival
Awards: Special Mention
2002-09-06

Rouen, Fest. du Cinema Nordique 2003
Awards: Prix de la Presse
2003-03-12

Lübeck, Nordische Filmtage
Awards: Baltic FIlm Prize
2002-10-31
2002-09-26

Bergen International Film festival
2002-10-17

Buenos Aires Festival Internacional
2003-03-06

Cannes Film Festival
2002-05-15

Festroia Int. Film Festival (Setúbal-Portugal)
2003-06-06

Haugesund
2002-08-17

Havana Int. FF of New Latin Cinema
2003-12-02

Istanbul International Film Festival
2003-04-12

Karlovy Vary Int. FF
2003-07-04

Lithuania Scanorama Film Forum
2003-11-10

London Film Festival
2002-11-07

New York Scandinavian House
2003-01-29

Palm Springs Int. FF
2003-01-09

Rome, Filmstudio 80
2003-03-28

Salt Lake City Sundance FF
2003-01-16

San Sebastian Film Festival
2002-09-19