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| Music | The music for “All About Anna” was composed by American producer and songwriter M. MAURICE HAWKESWORTH.
Founder of the record label Invisible Wave, Hawkesworth originally made his mark as A&R Creative Manager for Mega Records, where he worked with major bands like Ace of Base and Savage Rose. Approximately 25 of the music videos he commissioned at Mega Records have been shown on MTV Europe, and his song “Marie,” performed by Solveig Sandnes, became a number one hit in Japan. Denmark’s biggest radio and television station DR chose his CD album “Windermere: The World Is Here,” as one of the ten most important Danish albums of 2004.
For “All About Anna,” M. Maurice Hawkesworth has created an original score of great stylistic diversity, including two original songs and a new arrangement of the yearning folk ballad “Once I Had a Sweetheart,” performed in the film by Maria Køhnke. | | Movies | While in the same genre as "The Devil In The Flesh" and "The Brown Bunny," "All About Anna" is the first sexually explicit mainstream film to respect its audience enough to give them a happy ending.
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"All About Anna"
Starring Gry Bay, Eileen Daly, and Ovidie
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MEDIA ALERT APRIL 28, 2008
The Two Disc Collector's Edition Of ALL ABOUT ANNA
Receives A "AAAAA" EDITOR'S CHOICE REVIEW IN THE APRIL 2008 AVN MAGAZINE!
Rating:AAAAA
Reviewed by: Jared Rutter
Reviewed In: April 2008
Director: Jessica Nilsson
Company: Wicked Pictures Inc.
Cast: Eileen Daly, Gry Bay, Mark Stevens, Morten Schelbach, Ovidie, Thomas Lundy, Thomas Raft
Category: Video
This slick chick flick with realistically explicit sex scenes comes from Denmark — where modern movie porn more or less began. Innocent Pictures is a subdivision of Zentropa Productions, the innovative Danish company associated with controversial director Lars Von Trier, specializing in hardcore made by and for women.
Shot in English, not dubbed, with Danish, English and French actors, mostly from the mainstream, it is beautifully crafted and constantly entertaining.
Johan, the love of Anna’s life, took off on a three-month sea voyage, and five years later is still sailing. She drowns her sorrow with a succession of sexual quickies — “no commitment, no casualties” — but when Johan unexpectedly pops up again, her passion reignites.
The two lovers try to reconnect emotionally and physically, but a series of missed cues and misunderstandings keep keeping them apart.
Anna’s brief lesbian encounter with an actress in Paris (French porn star Ovidie, the movie’s only professional adult talent) sets her on the path back to Johan. Finally they connect for a romantic — and explicit — ending.
Pretty blonde Gry Bay, a Danish pop singer, is perfect as Anna, as is hunky English actor Mark Stevens as Johan. Eileen Daily, a Brit horror-flick star, amuses as Anna’s horny roommate. None of them seem to have a problem with performing sex.
The sex is real, but not in your face as in porno, and the men use condoms. The extras disc includes a director’s cut that is no less explicit, just different from the producer’s version (and frankly not as effective).
The question is, why can’t mainstream American films move on up to this grown-up degree of sexual explicitness?
Retailing: This movie can be sold as either mainstream or adult — the best of both worlds.
— Jared Rutter (To see the original interview, please visit www.avn.com.)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 25, 2008 | Daniel Metcalf Public Relations
Wicked Pictures Releases Award Winning European Feature
ALL ABOUT ANNA
As A Specially Packaged Two Disc Collectors Edition DVD
DATELINE January 25, 2008 | Daniel Metcalf Public Relations
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LOS ANGELES, CA - (January 25, 2008 DM/PR) - Wicked Pictures is pleased to announce that it is shipping a deluxe, two disc Collectors Edition DVD of the multiple award winning adults-only crossover feature All About Anna. Billed as “Scandinavian erotica by women for women and couples,” the movie’s North American DVD release coincides with the announcement this week that one of the film’s co-executive producers, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, has received a 2008 Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film (Live Action) as producer of Zentropa’s At Night. All About Anna will arrive at retail locations nationwide January 29th, 2008.
Over the last twelve months, All About Anna has won a number of awards and played the film festival circuit both internationally and in the United States. Last Spring saw this unique English language, Danish lensed erotic film snaring three major trophies at the Scandinavian Adult Awards, presented by the internet portal Side6.dk. The picture received awards for Best Scandinavian Couples Film, Best Scandinavian Actor (Thomas Raft), and Best Selling Scandinavian Star (Gry Bay). Filmmaker Jessica Nilsson was also nominated for Best Director. Just prior to the awards ceremony taking place at the Erotic World Fair in Copenhagen's Valbyhallen, All About Anna made its North American theatrical debut as part of Cinematic Sexualities Of The 21st Century, a month long look at global erotica sponsored by the University Of Chicago’s Doc Films, where it was screened alongside 9 Songs and Irreversible.
The new two disc Collectors Edition of this sexy couples’ pleaser offers audiences several hours of viewing excitement, including two different cuts of the film (the Producers’ Cut and the Director’s Cut), Commentaries By Gry Bay, Mark Stevens, Eileen Daly, and Ovidie, Unedited Sex Scenes, Photo Gallery, Trailer And TV Spot, Screenplay, Synopsis, Biographies, Press Materials, and more.
A lighthearted romance with hardcore sex, All About Anna’s unique appeal to adventurous couples is succinctly summed up by European author Marcelle Perks, who recommends the film in her popular book Secrets Of Porn Star Sex with this tantalizing suggestion:
“Rather than being intimidated by porn, do a bit of research and find something you can have fun with. An ideal ‘introduction movie’ is the hit film ‘All About Anna,’ a mainstream film that features real sex!”
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Gry Bay accepts her award for Best Selling Scandinavian Star.
Photograph by Side6.dk.
Gry and ALL ABOUT ANNA Executive Producer Nicolas Barbano.
Photograph courtesy Joern Nielsen.
For more information, please visit:
All About Anna: The Official Site
All About Anna: The Official MySpace Page
Gry Bay.Com
Wicked Pictures.Com
Innocent Pictures.Com
Daniel Metcalf Public Relations: PR For The New Core
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All About ALL ABOUT ANNA
ALL ABOUT ANNA is a new type of erotic film, based on real life rather than on the wish-fulfilling fantasies that characterize
traditional sex movies. It portrays a type of woman with whom we all
are familiar, fighting with problems most women know all too well.
The film is also an attempt to integrate explicit sex as part of the
storytelling and character development. Thus, the film’s sex scenes play a role in defining the characters and their relationships. Without the sex scenes, the film’s drama would fall apart.
Striving for optimal realism, All About Anna was shot on
location in Copenhagen and Paris. The romantic prologue and flashbacks were shot at sea on an Greenlandic icebreaker, a bittersweet conversation was shot in front of the Eiffel Tower, and the story’s emotional climax features such landmarks as Copenhagen’s Royal Castle. The scenes in Anna’s apartment were shot in the real apartment of actress Gry Bay. Here, the film’s first major sex scene was performed repeatedly by Gry and Thomas Raft in front of a huge window, witnessed by astonished
neighbors while traffic and everyday life passed by on the busy city
street outside.
All About Anna marks the culmination of the gradual move towards the use of explicit images in art house cinema which was initiated by Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots. Renowned for their search for cinematic truth, realism and new means of expression, Lars Von Trier, Zentropa, Innocent Pictures, and Wicked Pictures have truly brought erotic cinema into the 21st Century.
ALL ABOUT ANNA is an Innocent Pictures production
in association with Zentropa Productions.
The Collectors Edition DVD is available in the U.S. from Wicked Pictures.
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"All About Anna" Is All About SEDUCTION!
In The Wake Of Its Successful North American Premiere,
ALL ABOUT ANNA
Wins THREE Scandinavian Adult Awards!
Dateline: March 14, 2007
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(Copenhagen DENMARK / Los Angeles CA / March 14, 2007) - Indigo Delta Productions is pleased to announce that the adults-only crossover film ALL ABOUT ANNA has won three Scandinavian Adult Awards.
The award ceremony took place at the Erotic World Fair in Copenhagen's Valbyhallen, and these recent accolades represent the film's first awards attention since making its North American theatrical debut at DOC FILMS in Chicago on January 18th, 2007.
The Scandinavian Adult Awards, presented by the internet portal Side6.dk, is a new prize, given out for the first time this year.
ALL ABOUT ANNA received trophies for Best Scandinavian Couples Film, Best Scandinavian Actor (Thomas Raft), and Best Selling Scandinavian Star of 2006 (Gry Bay). Filmmaker Jessica Nilsson was also nominated for Best Director.
A fully explicit mainstream erotic film for women and couples, ALL ABOUT ANNA will be released in North America later this Summer by Wicked Pictures as a collector's edition two-disc DVD.
For more information on ALL ABOUT ANNA, click here to visit the movie's official MySpace page.
For more information on Gry Bay, click here to visit www.grybay.com.
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All About ALL ABOUT ANNA
ALL ABOUT ANNA is a new type of erotic film, based on real life rather than on the wish-fulfilling fantasies that characterize traditional sex movies. It portrays a type of woman with whom we all are familiar, fighting with problems most women know all too well.
The film is also an attempt to integrate explicit sex as part of the storytelling and character development. Thus, the film’s sex scenes are part of defining the characters and their relationships. Without the sex scenes, the film’s drama would fall apart.
Striving for optimal realism, ALL ABOUT ANNA was shot on location in Copenhagen and Paris. The romantic prologue and flashbacks were shot at sea on an Greenlandic icebreaker, a bittersweet conversation was shot in front of the Eiffel Tower, and the story’s emotional climax features such landmarks as Copenhagen’s Royal Castle.
The scenes in Anna’s apartment were shot in the real apartment of actress Gry Bay. Here, the film’s first major sex scene was performed repeatedly by Gry and Thomas Raft in front of a huge window, witnessed by astonished neighbors while traffic and everyday life passed by on the busy city street outside.
ALL ABOUT ANNA marks the culmination of the gradual move towards the use of explicit images in art house cinema which was initiated by Lars von Trier’s The Idiots. Renowned for their search for cinematic truth, realism and new means of expression, Lars von Trier, Zentropa, and Innocent Pictures have truly brought erotic cinema into the 21st Century.
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NEWS FLASH 01/25/07: IT'S A HIT!
ALL ABOUT ANNA
Enjoys Two Triumphant Screenings At
DOC FILMS January 18th, 2007 in Chicago!
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NEWS FLASH 01/04/07: ALL ABOUT ANNA
North American Theatrical Premiere
Set For January 18th, 2007 in Chicago! (Press Release Below.)
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NEWS FLASH 10/24/06:
In The Wake Of Enthusiastic U.S. Reviews,
multiple "EroticLine Award" Nominee ALL ABOUT ANNA Is
Screened During The 10th Annual VENUS Berlin Fair!
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NEWS FLASH 10/18/06:
The U.S. Reviewers Have Spoken: ALL ABOUT ANNA Is A Hit!
From FLESHBOT
(Review Courtesy www.fleshbot.com)
All About Anna
Director: Jessica Nilsson
Cast: Gry Bay, Mark Stevens, Eileen Daly, Thomas Raft, Morten Shelbech, Thomas Lundy, Ovidie
Review by Gram Ponante
Anna (Gry Bay) is a theatrical costume designer unlucky in love but not wanting for sex. Director Nilsson makes the best of a problematic script that is often simplistic and precious. Marketed as a romantic movie for women, "All About Anna" certainly pays attention to all the tempestuous relationships a blindingly attractive woman can have in today's theatre community.
As in Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves", "AAA" features the heroine's love going off to sea and coming back compromised. The rest of the movie deals with Anna's comings and goings with Johann (Mark Stevens) and their mutual screwups.
Wicked Pictures is taking the unprecedented step for a porn company in distributing this movie in the United States. As a porn film, no one would argue that there is not enough sex in it. The sex depicted is also too tame for the established market. But the sets, direction, acting, and script are, in the absence of lots of humping, above par for standard porn fare.
So this might be the perfect porn gateway drug. The one blowjob carried to completion results in shame and awkwardness - just like in real life! - rather than sperm-gargling, sperm-drinking from champagne flutes, and/or sperm-swapping with Cytherea. So that's got to count for something.
Where "Anna" borrows best from Dogma '95 practitioners is the natural lighting and digital filming. Often the movie is heartbreakingly sweet and present, with no little help from its centerpiece, Gry Bay. Her episodes with men, women, and herself are refreshingly devoid of the porn posturing that often compensates here for a lack of time, budget, enthusiasm, beauty, and talent.
But without all the sex, the viewer turns his/her attention to things like the script, which doesn't do justice even to a thoughtful audience willing to forgive almost anything for the love of Gry Bay.
"I had to conquer my fear!" the script has Anna saying in voiceover. "I had to go back to that flat!"
Ultimately, "Anna" is a sweet movie with a happy ending. Men will like it for Bay, loopy roommate Eileen Daly, and LTG tryst partner Ovidie, and women will like it for Anna's choice in partners, especially Johann.
Do you know who won't like it? The French. But you'll have to watch the movie to learn why.
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From ADULT VIDEO NEWS
(Review Courtesy www.avn.com)
All About Anna
Director: Jessica Nilsson
Cast: Gry Bay, Mark Stevens, Eileen Daly, Thomas Raft, Morten Shelbech, Thomas Lundy, Ovidie
Rating: AAA
Reviewed by Mark Kernes
Gry Bay, the "Anna" of the title, is a babe, but she doesn't get down 'n' dirty until the end of this feature. First, she has to spend some time in sexual purgatory for not being faithful to the "love of her life" (Mark Stevens), who mysteriously leaves her one day, only to show up five years later as she's about to move in with a new boyfriend (Thomas Raft).
Anna and Stevens play sexual tag for a while, until she heads off to Paris to design costumes for a play while her oversexed roommate gets it on with another lover. Needless to say, Gry and Mark do the deed at the end.
Retailing: Decent productions values make this Scandinavian XXer a winner with the couples.
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Electronic Press Kit Information
Gry Bay, Mark Stevens and Eileen Daly star in the provocative mainstream feature film “All About Anna,” directed by award-winning filmmaker Jessica Nilsson.
A co-production by Innocent Pictures and Zentropa Productions,“All About Anna” is a slice-of-life romantic comedy with explicit lovemaking scenes.
“All About Anna” was produced by Marcella Lindstad from a screenplay by Anya Aims and Loretta Fabiana. Nicolas Barbano, Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Claus Sørensen served as executive producers. The behind-the-scenes creative team included director of photography Claus Lykke, editor Martin Bernfeld and composer M. Maurice Hawkesworth.
SYNOPSIS: Anna (Gry Bay) is a young costume designer, focused on her job and wary of getting caught up in romantic relationships. She has just found a new apartment, and is tempted to let her latest boyfriend, Frank (Thomas Raft), move in with her. Instead, she finds a tenant: The flamboyant, fun-loving Camilla (Eileen Daly), who shares Anna’s views on love and commitment. For both of them, it’s all about fun. Strangers without strings. No commitment, no casualties.
But Anna’s resolve is challenged after an unexpected encounter with an ex-boyfriend, Johan (Mark Stevens), who once upon a time was the man in her life. Johan is ready to start over, and Anna is tempted – but also afraid of losing her newly won independency and, not least, of getting hurt.
More than ever, she needs to get back on the merry-go-round and move on. In order to forget all about Johan’s existence, she stages one obstacle after another. Fortunately, she receives an offer to design costumes for a theatre in Paris. As far away from romantic temptation as possible. Or so she thinks.
Anna’s problem is her determination to become an independent, untouchable person. She is too scared to rely on anybody else, even those with the best intentions. Unless she learns to accept that human relationships of importance sometimes do hurt, a woman like Anna risks becoming very lonely. And that is the real story of “All About Anna."
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Structurally, "All About Anna" is divided into a prologue and four chapters. The four chapters can be watched as sensual short stories; each has an erotic highlight but climaxes in sexual frustration as Anna and Johan almost manage to get back together, and yet not. Unfulfilled desire is as much a part of life as those magic moments of total rapture. This film has both.
“All About Anna” is an attempt to create a new type of erotic film, based on real life rather than on the wish-fulfilling fantasies that characterize traditional sex movies. It portrays a type of woman with whom we all are familiar, fighting with problems most women know all too well.
The film is also an attempt to integrate explicit sex as part of the storytelling and character development. Thus, the film’s sex scenes are part of defining the characters and their relationships. Without the sex scenes, the film’s drama would fall apart.
This was a particular challenge to the film’s cast, who had to cope with the traditional social and human dramas associated with having real sex in front of a camera. Fortunately the film’s actors and actresses managed to extent their dramatic performances way beyond the norm and truly managed to push the envelope, achieving new means of dramatic expression. The sex scenes were carefully planned and rehearsed prior to shooting, allowing the actors to stay in character through every embrace and caress.
Striving for optimal realism, “All About Anna” was shot on location in Copenhagen and Paris. The romantic prologue and flashbacks were shot at sea on an Greenlandic icebreaker, a bittersweet conversation was shot in front of the Eiffel Tower, and the story’s emotional climax features such landmarks as Copenhagen’s Royal Castle. The scenes in Anna’s apartment were shot in the real apartment of actress Gry Bay. Here, the film’s first major sex scene was performed repeatedly by Gry Bay and Thomas Raft in front of a huge window, witnessed by astonished neighbors while traffic and everyday life passed by on the busy city street outside.
“All About Anna” marks a culmination of the gradual slide towards use of explicit images in art house cinema which was initiated by Lars von Trier’s Dogme-success “Idioterne” (“The Idiots”). Renowned for their search for cinematic truth, realism and new means of expression, Lars von Trier, Zentropa, and Innocent Pictures have truly brought erotic cinema into the 21st Century.
“All About Anna”
Cast And Crew Biographies
GRY BAY
Anna is played by beautiful Danish film and music star GRY BAY, who got her big break playing one of the main characters in the German TV series “Dr. Monika Lindt."
More recently, she played a supporting part in the drama "Betonhjerter" and the female lead in the hip-hop comedy feature “Slim Slam Slum” (aka: “Joystick Nation”), for which she also composed several songs.
On stage, Gry Bay has sung and danced in such shows as “West Side Story," “Grease,” “Guys and Dolls,” and “Crazy For You." Additionally, as lead singer for Kid Creole, Gry Bay has toured in Denmark, England, Italy and the United States.
In October 2003 readers of popular Danish magazine "M!" voted Gry Bay into spot 32 of the Top 100 Sexiest Girls in the World. In July 2004 readers of the Danish edition of FHM voted her into spot 97 at the Top 100 Sexiest Girls in the World.
She has studied drama at the University of Copenhagen, where she wrote a dissertation on the use of body language in dramatic arts, graduating at the MA level.
MARK STEVENS
Johan, the male lead in “All About Anna”, is played by the English actor MARK STEVENS who was born in Zimbabwe and, after graduating from Birmingham University, trained at The Birmingham Theatre School.
Theatre roles include Ton in “Gotcha”; Turner in “The Waiting” and Harris in “Testimony” at the Swan Theatre, Worcester; Gerardo in “Death and the Maiden”, Friar Laurence in “Romeo and Juliet” and the title role in “Macbeth” for C’est Tous Theatre in Preston; Duke Senior/Duke Frederick in “As You Like It” and Orsino in “Twelfh Night” for Open Hand Productions in Cambridge. Mark Stevens also performed as Mark Anthony in a national tour of “Julius Caesar” with MDCC.
Other recent theatre credits include a national tour of “Naked Flame” and a national tour of John Godber’s “On the Piste” for Hull Truck Theatre. Previous films include “The Waiting”, “Platinum Souvenir”, “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” and the comedy thriller “Nine Dead Gay Guys” with Steven Berkoff. Most recently, Mark Stevens played Gus Gus in Andy Cadiff’s romantic comedy “Chasing Liberty”, starring Mandy Moore, and Sven the driller in Paul Anderson’s sci-fi/horror/action box-office hit “Alien Vs. Predator."
EILEEN DALY
Co-starring as Anna’s friend Camilla is British model, singer and actress EILEEN DALY, who also performs one of the songs from her CD “Forbidden Fruit” in the film. In her native England, Eileen Daly is a Goth cult icon best known for her close association with Redemption Video.
Standing out among her many feature films is her starring role as Lilith Silver in Jake West’s “Razor Blade Smile”. As Lilith Silver, a leather-clad, gun-wielding vampire, Eileen Daly introduced a new species of cinematic action heroine, fashioning a look later used by Carrie-Anne Moss in “The Matrix,” Leonor Varela in “Blade II,” and Kate Beckinsale in “Underworld,” among others.
OVIDIE
French hardcore actress and author OVIDIE, a former philosophy student, is widely regarded as France’s first pro-sex-feminist. With the publication of her provocative book “Porno Manifesto,” she became one of the most discussed pop culture icons in France. The only person in the cast with an adult film background, this enchanting actress plays Sophie, a French stage actress who reads Anna’s heart and helps her find the path towards true love. During shooting of Ovidie's sex scene in “All About Anna”, Lars von Trier visited the set, and these two famous pop culture icons soon became friends.
JESSICA NILSSON
Director and screenwriter Jessica Nilsson was born in Sweden, 1965, but has
since 1988 lived in Denmark, where she studied at the Royal Danish Academy
of Fine Arts and graduated from the Danish Film School.
Recently, Jessica Nilsson has received critical acclaim for "Till Death
Do Us Part" and other outstanding radio plays written and directed for
Denmark's Radio. In 2005, the Danish Association of the Blind awarded her
its Radioplay Award for her erotic radio play "Burning Desire",
produced by Denmark's Radio. In its motivation, the Jury wrote: "Jessica Nilsson is a
woman not afraid of going off the rails to follow a story to its extreme
consequence. She wholeheartedly relates to dangerous subjects and genres
which nice girls normally leave to others."
She is however best known for her unique music videos and award winning
short films such as "The Sausage", which won First Prize at the 1998
Oslo Short Film Festival, and "Spotless", which was in competition at
Sundance 2001 and won the Special Jury Prize at Flickerfest 2001 in Sydney. At Odense
Film Festival 2000, in connection with her short film "Spotless",
she received the Danish Directors' Prize of Merit.
M. MAURICE HAWKESWORTH
The music for “All About Anna” was composed by American producer and songwriter M. MAURICE HAWKESWORTH. Founder of the record label Invisible Wave, Hawkesworth originally made his mark as A&R Creative Manager for Mega Records, where he worked with major bands like Ace of Base and Savage Rose. Approximately 25 of the music videos he commissioned at Mega Records have been shown on MTV Europe, and his song “Marie,” performed by Solveig Sandnes, became a number one hit in Japan. Denmark’s biggest radio and television station DR chose his CD album “Windermere: The World Is Here,” as one of the ten most important Danish albums of 2004. For “All About Anna,” M. Maurice Hawkesworth has created an original score of great stylistic diversity, including two original songs and a new arrangement of the yearning folk ballad “Once I Had a Sweetheart,” performed in the film by Maria Køhnke.
PETER AALBAEK JENSEN
Since teaming up with Lars von Trier in 1992 and founding Zentropa Productions, executive producer PETER AALBAEK JENSEN has become the most powerful figure in Danish cinema.
His film and television productions number close to a hundred, and in 1998 he established Filmbyen, a huge film studio complex just outside of Copenhagen. Among Zentropa’s best known feature films are Lars von Trier’s Oscar-nominated "Breaking the Waves," which also took the Grand Prix at Cannes, his musical "Dancer in the Dark," which won the Golden Palm for Best Film and Best Actress, and "Dogville," starring Nicole Kidman and James Caan.
Zentropa is also famous for the Dogme-manifesto, which demands that directors refrain from use of camera dollies, musical underscoring, artificial light, etc. Though initially ridiculed, use of the Dogme-concept has continually resulted in critically acclaimed films with international box-office success.
On “All About Anna,” Peter Aalbæk Jensen shares his executive producer credit with NICOLAS BARBANO and CLAUS SØRENSEN, with whom he founded Innocent Pictures.
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