SONJA: THE WHITE SWAN
synopsis
Sonja - The White Swan is the story about Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star. Her first film breaks the box office by selling the most tickets in the world in 1937. She becomes one of richest women in her time, always surrounded by fans, lovers and family, never alone. As she gets older the spotlight is fading, but she refuses to quit. It all collapses when she falls, drunk on the slushy ice, in Rio de Janeiro.
international title: | Sonja: The White Swan |
original title: | Sonja |
working title: | Queen of Ice |
country: | Norway, Denmark, Ireland |
sales agent: | TrustNordisk |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Anne Sewitsky |
film run: | 110' |
release date: | NO 25/12/2018 |
screenplay: | Mette Marit Bølstad, Andreas Markusson |
cast: | Ine Marie Wilmann, Valene Kane, Eldar Skar, Anders Mordal, Anneke von der Lippe, Aidan Mcardle, Malcolm Adams, Pål Sverre Hagen, Gustavo Rojo |
cinematography by: | Daniel Voldheim |
film editing: | Christoffer Heie, Martin Stoltz |
art director: | Lina Nordqvist |
costumes designer: | Lorna Marie Mugan |
music: | Ray Harman, Stein Berge Svendsen |
producer: | Cornelia Boysen, Synnøve Hørsdal |
co-producer: | Charlotta Denward, Lone Korslund, Tristan Orpen Lynch, Aoife O'Sullivan |
line producer: | Juan Cano Nono, Rodica Popa, Kaare Storemyr |
production: | Maipo Film & TV Produksjon AS, Nordisk Film Production A/S, Subotica |
distributor: | Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS |