Tree of Knowledge (film)

Tree of Knowledge (film)

Infobox Film
name = Tree of Knowledge


image_size = 225px
caption = Front cover of the Danish DVD for
"Tree of Knowledge"
director = Nils Malmros
producer = Per Holst
writer = Nils Malmros
Frederick Cryer
narrator =
starring = Eva Gram Schjoldager
Jan Johansen
Line Arlien-Søborg
music = Per Hillers Danseorkester
Saratoga Jazzband
cinematography = Jan Weincke
editing = Merete Brusendorff
Janus Billeskov Jensen
distributor = Kærne Film
released = November 13 1981
runtime = 110 min.
country = Denmark
language = Danish
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0082633

"Tree of Knowledge" (Danish: "Kundskabens træ") is a 1981 Danish coming-of-age drama directed by Nils Malmros. The film details the lives of 17 teenage schoolmates in 1950's Denmark. Shooting on location at the Catholic high school which he had attended, Malmros took two years to film the action, so the cast members reflected the real life physical and emotional development of their characters. [cite web |url=http://www.kum.dk/sw34160.asp |title=Kundskabens Træ |format= |work= |accessdate=] Film Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote "The Tree of Knowledge" is the truest and most moving film I have ever seen about the experience of puberty... a creative act of memory about exactly what it was like to be 13 in 1953." [Roger Ebert /Chicago Sun-Times December 1, 1982] Despite critical praise, "Tree of Knowledge" received only two awards: the Danish Film Critics Bodil Award for Jan Weincke's cinematography and the Audience Award at the Lübeck Nordic Film Festival. "Tree of Knowledge" is one of the top 100 Danish films listed by the Danish Film Institute and is one of ten films listed in the cultural canon of Denmark by the Danish Ministry of Culture.cite web |url=http://kulturkanon.kum.dk/?vaerk=44 |title=Kulturkanon |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-08-02]

Cast

References

External Links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082633/ IMDb]
* [http://www.danskefilm.dk/film/502.html "Kundskabens træ"] , at Den Danske Film Database (In Danish)
* [http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnffuldvis&p_parmlist=filmid=170 "Kundskabens træ"] Det Danske Filminstitut (In Danish)


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