The Danish girl

Resource Information

The work The Danish girl represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The Danish girl

Statement of responsibility

Focus Features ; Working Title ; Pretty Pictures ; in association with Revision Pictures ; Senator Global Productions ; directed by Tom Hooper ; produced by Gail Mutrux, Anne Harrison, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Tom Hooper ; screenplay by Lucinda Coxon

Creator

• Danish girl (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Hooper, Tom, 1972-
• Heard, Amber, 1986-
• Koch, Sebastian, 1962-
• Ebershoff, David
• Working Title Films
• Redmayne, Eddie, 1982-
• Schiller, Adrian
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Senator Global Productions
• Schoenaerts, Matthias, 1977-
• Silberg, Tusse
• Revision Pictures
• Pretty Pictures (Firm)
• Vikander, Alicia, 1988-
• Focus Features
• Whishaw, Ben, 1980-

Actor

• Schiller, Adrian
• Redmayne, Eddie, 1982-
• Koch, Sebastian, 1962-
• Heard, Amber, 1986-
• Whishaw, Ben, 1980-
• Vikander, Alicia, 1988-
• Silberg, Tusse
• Schoenaerts, Matthias, 1977-

Film director

• Hooper, Tom, 1972-

Film producer

• Hooper, Tom, 1972-

Subject

• Wegener, Gerda -- Drama
• Artists -- Drama
• Biographical films
• Elbe, Lili, 1882-1931 -- Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Marriage -- Drama
• Transgender artists -- Drama
• Romance films
• Transgender people -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Biographical films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Romance films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• fre
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer

Awards note

Academy awards, 2016: Best supporting actress (Vikander)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Danny Cohen ; editor, Melanie Ann Oliver ; music, Alexandre Desplat ; production designer, Eve Stewart

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for some sexuality and full nudity

Language note

In English and French with English, French, and Spanish subtitles ; closed-captioned (SDH: subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing)

PerformerNote

Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tussie Silberg, Adrian Schiller

Runtime

120

Technique

live action