Kira's Reason - A Love Story is a 2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

 drama directed by Ole Christian Madsen

Ole Christian Madsen

Ole Christian Madsen is a Danish film director and script writer, responsible for several movies and TV series that has achieved success in Denmark. Among the most successful projects are the movies Flammen og Citronen, Prague, Nordkraft and the TV series Rejseholdet and Edderkoppen...

 and written by Madsen and Mogens Rukov

Mogens Rukov

Mogens Rukov is a Danish screenwriter.He achieved a university degree in Nordic filology and film in 1974.After that he became a teacher of the screenwriting department at the National Film School of Denmark, Copenhagen....

. The film stars Stine Stengade

Stine Stengade

Stine Stengade is a Danish actress best known for her leading role in the 2001 Dogme 95 film Kira's Reason: A Love Story .-Biography:...

 in a character study of a young mother who, released after two years a psychiatric ward, struggles to hold her marriage, family and life intact. Filmed using the minimalist techniques of the Dogme 95

Dogme 95

Dogme 95 was an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vow of Chastity". These were rules to create filmmaking based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, and...

 movement, Kira's Reason is also known as Dogme #21. Kira's Reason won both the Bodil and Robert Award

Robert Award

The Robert statue is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Film Academy of Denmark. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars. The award, voted only by academy members, is acknowledgement by Danish industry colleagues of a person's or film's outstanding contributions during the...

s as the Best Danish Film of 2001. For her leading performance, Stengade received the Bodil and Robert

Robert Award

The Robert statue is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Film Academy of Denmark. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars. The award, voted only by academy members, is acknowledgement by Danish industry colleagues of a person's or film's outstanding contributions during the...

 awards for Best Actress.

Cast

Actor	Role
Stine Stengade Stine Stengade Stine Stengade is a Danish actress best known for her leading role in the 2001 Dogme 95 film Kira's Reason: A Love Story .-Biography:...	Kira
Lars Mikkelsen Lars Mikkelsen Lars Dittman Mikkelsen is a Danish actor who graduated from the National Theatre School of Denmark in 1995. He is the brother of actor Mads Mikkelsen and is married to actor colleague Anette Støvelbæk.- Filmography :...	Mads
Sven Wollter Sven Wollter Sven Wollter is a Swedish actor. He was born and grew up in Gothenburg.Sven Wollter is an actor in Sweden and has starred in many films such as, The Man on the Roof, The Man from Majorca, Änglagård and Jerusalem, based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf...	Kira's Father
Peaches Latrice Petersen	Kay
Camilla Bendix	Charlotte
Lotte Bergstrøm	Michelle
Thomas W. Gabrielsson Thomas W. Gabrielsson Thomas W. Gabrielsson is a Swedish actor, active in Sweden and Denmark.-Stage career:In 1998 Gabrielsson performed solo in the 70 minute monologue dramatization of Ondskan at the Theater La Balance in Vanløse....	Gustav
Ronnie Lorenzen	Mikkel (as Ronnie Hiort Lorenzen)
Oliver Appelt Nielsen	Julius
Klaus Pagh Klaus Pagh Klaus Pagh is a Danish actor, film producer and director. He appeared in 32 films between 1956 and 2001.-Selected filmography:* Kira's Reason: A Love Story * Girls at Arms 2 * Me and the Mafia...	Mads' Boss
Claus Strandberg	1st Supplier
Henrik Birch	2nd Supplier
Michael Hasselflug	3rd Supplier
Helle Merete Sørensen	Wife of 1st Supplier
Nicolas Bro Nicolas Bro Nicolas Bro is a Danish actor born in Copenhagen, Denmark.He has grown up in the family of actors – mother is Danish actress Helle Hertz and father is an actor Christoffer Bro....	John

External links

• En Kærlighedshistorie at IMDb
• En Kærlighedshistorie at Den Danske Film Database
• En Kærlighedshistorie at Det Danske Filminstitut (in Danish)