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SYNOPSIs 5 INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRECTOR 6 DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY 8 CAST 10 PRODUCER & SCRIPT WRITER 12 NIMBUS FILM 13 CAST & CREW 15 CONTacTs 16 Press book Design Benny box Editor & texts Søren Green Nielsen and Lars Bredo Rahbek Still photographer Ole Kragh-Jacobsen Following a painful family dinner Thomas is asked by his sister speak with him before trying to find out more. Ursula, after some Charlotte to meet her the following evening. Nearing the rendezvous persuasion, agrees to help Thomas put the pieces together. Thomas sees the lights of emergency vehicles and discovers that Charlotte, a strong swimmer, has drowned. Consumed by an ever increasing sense of paranoia Thomas returns home to find it ransacked and his evidence stolen. A well known children’s entertainer, Thomas is unversed in the Everything seems to lead back to Lange-Erichsen, who is now world into which he now finds himself. Looking through Charlotte’s heading up the merger of Denmark’s two intelligence services. possessions he discovers a list of poisonous chemicals and a pho- Thomas now fears that his mission could be against the most tograph of his dead father and his colleague in military intelligence, powerful agency in the country. Lange-Erichsen. Confronting Lange-Erichsen, Thomas is patronised and given evasive answers and comes to the realisation that there Visiting his estranged wife, Thomas discovers that his daughter may be a lot more to his sister’s death. is missing and realises that it is not just his life that is in danger but also those around him. With his every move recorded by sur- Thomas is told by his sister’s close friend, Ursula, that Charlotte had veillance cameras and unseen eyes he has to race against time to been contacted by a Swedish woman and told of the terrifying world rescue his daughter and uncover the truth. in which their father had been involved and Charlotte had wanted to - to do what it and they want. Denmark might end up there as well. ’If Very early in the process, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen decided not to leave his Perfectly ordinary Danes are abundant in Søren Kragh-Jacobsen’s 10 films, you’re not with us; you’re against us,’ and that’s not my idea of democracy.” main character at any point in the film. Thomas Deleuran is the eye of the all of which he has co-authored, including a number of popular films for Like Heisterberg, who co-wrote one of the greatest Danish film successes audience. ”There’s no cutting to the bogey man or the bomb under the children and youths, a successful Dogme film, MIFUNE (1999), and most of recent years, the political thriller KING’S GAME (2004), Søren Kragh- table, and so we end up with a rock’n’roll film, shot byM orten Søborg with- recently the English language drama SkagERRAK (2003). He realizes that Jacobsen is fan of the political thriller, and it was only natural for the writ- out light and with hand-held camera, in which we venture forth in a foggy there is a large part of himself in all of his main characters. ”But I wouldn’t ing team to use this genre to tell an entertaining story while debating some Denmark with a person who has the best intentions but doesn’t really have said that 15 years ago. I wanted to tell the story of the survivor. I left of the important issues of the day. ”I like films that tease me,” says the di- understand much of what’s going on.” school after the seventh grade, got forced into an apprenticeship and I Søren Kragh-Jacobsen likes political thrillers, and in WhaT NO rector. ”I like films, that are based in reality, but are wild nonetheless.T here couldn’t read or write.” are some political thrillers, that I have seen over and over again: THREE The director says that he feels like an action director, and that he admires ONE KNOWS he uses this entertaining genre to pose a number of directors like the brothers Tony and Ridley Scott for their visual energy and ”I’ve always made the story of the weaker guy... Well, I don’t know if he’s important questions about the surveillance society and the state DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975), THE MARATHON MAN (1976), ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998), THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993). I’ve always felt entertained lavishness. ”I’ve always liked the dynamism of storytelling in film and I weak, but he hasn’t figured things out yet. Whether it’s Claus in WaNNA of our democracy. by them. They are of varying quality, but I like the feeling of opening a box even used a hand-held camera in WaNNA SEE MY BEAUTIFUL NAVEL? SEE MY BEAUTIFUL NAVEL?, who hasn’t got a clue. Or whether it’s 8 year By Christian Monggaard, Dagbladet Information and that as you go along you figure out how it’s all connected, even though (1978). I like it to be action-packed and I view the world from many differ- old Ivan, whose father calls him a Rubber Tarzan, and who ends up real- you can hardy believe it. It’s a fun genre and you get to think ’what if…’.” ent angles. In general, I put a lot of thought into where to place the camera, izing that there is always something you’re good at; you just have to figure ”We live in a democratic state, but we should think about, whether the why it has to be dynamic and why you suddenly hit the breaks and take it out what it is. Peter Hesse’s character in ISFUGLE (1983) is also a fool, people was really in charge,” says Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, who is worried ”Along with the main character, Thomas Deleuran, we enter a chaos, a kind right down to the first gear. BothR idley and Tony are masters of that. I don’t who gets wiser through his meeting with the wild. THE ISLAND ON BIRD about the state of the world. Now, the soon-to-be 61-year-old film director of claustrophobic room, and we want people to discuss whether this might like all of their stories, but if you’re really well prepared as they are, you STREET (1997) is RUBBER TaRZAN set in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, has made a film about just that.T he thriller WHAT NO ONE KNOWS tells the actually happen,” says the director. ”Is it conceivable that in this cozy, little can free yourself from the demands of the craft and instead concentrate on etc.. I see the recurring theme, and I’d like to get a little meaner – as I story of musician Thomas Deleuran (Anders W. Berthelsen), a 40-year old democracy we might nevertheless have some sort of secret service that your actors.” usually say. At the moment, I’m writing a story about Chopin, which is al- drop-out, who makes his living performing at schools and has just moved operates independently, when something needs to be covered up? After most a Dogme film. He is also a weak person. It takes place eight months One thing that WHAT NO ONE KNOWS has in common with the political away from his wife and teenage daughter. However, Thomas is forced to all, we’ve seen it time and time again in American films. That’s why we’ve before he dies and in his own mind he hasn’t achieved anything. He has thrillers that Søren Kragh-Jacobsen has taken his inspiration from, is that take action when his sister, photo journalist Charlotte (Sonja Richter), dies decided to enter this world of conspiracies that Rasmus and I – being the been married to the piano and he has had no success as a human being.” the main character, Thomas Deleuran, is a perfectly ordinary human being, mysteriously before having a chance to tell him her discovery about their big boys that we are - care very much for.” who is thrown into the deep end and has to struggle to avoid drowning. late father, Mark, who worked for the Danish Defense Intelligence Service. But Søren Kragh-Jacobsen emphasizes that his main characters do evolve Contrary to our neighbouring country, Sweden, where assassinations of ”We found out that the main character should be much like me ,” says the He soon realises that somebody is watching him – and everybody else – in the course of his stories, because his films are coming-of-age stories politicians seem to be part of the political game and the police, as well director, who was already a popular singer-songwriter exactly 30 years and trying to make him drop any further investigation of his sister’s death of sorts. ”Their minds get more beautiful. So does Thomas Deleuran in as the intelligence community, have been compromised repeatedly, we in ago, when he returned from film school inP rague to make his first feature and his father’s secret work for the Danish state. WHAT NO ONE KNOWS. He is also a wet rag, who has hit rock bottom and Denmark still believe in the incorruptibility and justice of the system. Con- film, the youth drama WaNNA SEE MY BEAUTIFUL NAVEL?. really wants his wife back. But I believe these types of people can main- It was under the heading of ’The Frailty of Democracy’, that Søren Kragh- sequently, when Søren Kragh-Jacobsen first introduced the script ofWHA T tain their idealism. It’s a bit naïve but I believe that you have to stand by ”Thomas Deleuran is a children’s entertainer, who plays his guitar well and Jacobsen sat down more than two years ago with the young screenwriter NO ONE KNOWS to The Danish Film Institute, the film consultant even your banality and your naïveté.