Oct 01, 1998
119 min
Full-HD

In the Presence of a Clown (1998)

In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty.

Category

Drama TV Movie

Country

Denmark Germany Italy Norway Sweden

Companies

DR Nordiska TV-Samarbetsfonden SVT Drama RAI

Börje Ahlstedt

Uncle Carl Åkerblom

Marie Richardson

Pauline Thibualt

Erland Josephson

Osvald Vogler

Pernilla August

Karin Bergman

Anita Björk

Anna Åkerblom

Agneta Ekmanner

Klovnen Rigmor

Lena Endre

Märta Lundberg

Gunnel Fred

Emma Vogler

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