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Norway celebrated Liv Ullmann – “our greatest artist, not so much in Norway”

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- Norwegian director and animator Torill Kove received the Liv Ullmann Honorary Award, when the actress-director visited her home city of Trondheim

Norway celebrated Liv Ullmann – “our greatest artist, not so much in Norway”

Liv Ullmann is undoubtedly Norway’s greatest screen artist, but she has hardly had the opportunity to show it in Norwegian films – almost only in foreign ones,” said Norwegian film expert Per Haddal of the Norwegian actress-director, who celebrated her 75th anniversary in her home city of Trondheim (December 16).

As part of the festivities, Norwegian director and animator Torill Kove was awarded the Liv Ullmann Honorary Award, which comes with a €12,000 cheque and is given annually to a woman filmmaker with a special talent or engagement in Norwegian film or TV drama. Kove, who has just signed her first feature, Hocus, Pocus, Alfie Atkins!, was Oscar-nominated for her first short, My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts (2001), and her second, The Danish Poet (2006), won the trophy, with Ullmann lending her voice to the dialogue.

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The birthday programme started at Trondheim’s Nova Filmsenter multiplex, which boasts an Ullmann Auditorium – the largest of 11 – where CEO of Stockholm’s Ingmar Bergman Foundation, Jan Holmberg, delivered a lecture on “Liv Ullmann, Ingmar Bergman and August Strindberg.” Ullmann and Norwegian producer Synnøve Hørsdal, of Maipo film and TV-produksjon, introduced Ullmann’s upcoming (and fifth) feature as a director, an English-language adaption of Strindberg’s Miss Juliet, starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton, which will open next autumn.

Norwegian journalists Haddal and Anne Grosvold met “Liv Ullmann, director and actress” before the screening of Indian director Dheeraj Akolkar’s documentary Liv & Ingmar [+see also:
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about the 42-year relationship between Ullmann and Bergman, before the actual party. Liv & Ingmar was followed by The Danish Poet and Ullmann’s own award-winning TV film, Private Confessions (1996), from Bergman’s script, before the actual party, which took place at Trondheim’s Rockheim National Museum of Popular Music.

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