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DOCUMENTARY FILM Golden Dawn Girls (Hatets vugge)
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Meet the women behind the extreme far-right movement.
"Whatever has happened to Greece?" wonders filmmaker Håvard Bustnes out loud at the start of this disturbing documentary. In recent years, its image as a country of sunny beaches and friendly people has been overshadowed by political ideologies that are terrifyingly close to Nazism.
With many prominent members of the far-right Golden Dawn party now behind bars, a daughter, a wife and a mother continue to propagate its message — and all three of them are seasoned enough to avoid any slips of the tongue during interviews. But MENU
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The resulting material, supplemented with archive footage that leaves no room for doubt about the depraved side of this political party, reveals an ever-widening gulf between clear facts and political image-making. While it’s frustrating that the women are so unbending in their views, it does illustrate how wearing blinders can derail an entire society.
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Production and distribution
Production Year:
2017
Production country:
Norway
Co production country:
Denmark Finland
Release date (international):
2017-11-19
Production company:
Faction Film Up North Film AS
Co production company:
House of Real Napafilms
Producer: MENU Christian Falch https://www.nfi.no/eng/film?name=golden-dawn-girls&id=1801 2/9 27/4/2018 Film / Norwegian Film Institute Håvard Bustnes
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Director Håvard Bustnes
Håvard Bustnes (b. 1973) studied TV-directing at Lillehammer University College and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He started the production company Klapp Media in 1998 and helped establish Faction Film in 2003. Today he is a full-time producer and director of documentary films and commercials. His film Big John (2008) won the award for Best Nordic Documentary at Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Festival, Malmö, and a Crystal Heart Award in the US.
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Awards
2018:
Human International Documentary Film Festival Human Award for Best Norwegian Documentary
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Festivals
2017:
IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
2018:
TIFF - Tromsø International Film Festival
2018:
Göteborg International Film Festival MENU https://www.nfi.no/eng/film?name=golden-dawn-girls&id=1801 4/9 27/4/2018 Film / Norwegian Film Institute 2018:
DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
2018:
Stockfish European Film Festival
2018:
Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
2018:
Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival
2018:
Tempo Documentary Festival
2018:
One World - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague
2018:
Human International Documentary Film Festival
2018:
Vera Film Festival, Åland
2018:
Hamarama
2018:
CPH:DOX
2018:
One World Romania
2018: MENU
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2018:
Docville International Documentary Film Festival
2018:
Docudays UA - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
2018:
Festival of Tolerance – JFF Zagreb
2018:
Visions du Réel, Nyon
2018:
One World in Brussels
2018:
The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival
2018:
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
2018:
Nordic/Docs
2018:
CineDoc Tiblisi
2018:
DocEdge International Documentary Film Festival
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Director:
Håvard Bustnes
Narrator:
Håvard Bustnes
Cinematographer:
Lars Skree Viggo Knudsen
Editor:
Anders Teigen
Composer:
Jonas Colstrup
Sound Design:
Håkon Lammetun
Screenplay:
Håvard Bustnes Lars K. Andersen
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Technical information
Format:
DCP 2k
Screen ratio:
1:1,85 MENU https://www.nfi.no/eng/film?name=golden-dawn-girls&id=1801 7/9 27/4/2018 Film / Norwegian Film Institute Colour:
Colour
Length in mins:
94'
Language:
Greek
Subtitles:
English
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