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Harvest -credit Camilla Hjelm Venerable Danish pubcaster DR Drama, behind “Borgen,” “The Killing” and “Cry Wolf,” is set to thrill the audience of the Cannes Grand Theatre Lumiere April 24 with its latest ambitious drama “Harvest,” bowing in Canneseries‘ main competition.
The title stands out on multiple levels. It marks the long-form narrative debut of one of Denmark’s most respected filmmakers Martin Zandvliet, Oscar-nominated for the drama “Land of Mine” who for the first time focuses on the rural world. “Think ‘Succession’ with tractors and tradition,” said DR Sales’ director of sales Pernille Munk Skysgaard. Jealousy, guilt, secrets. The good ingredients of a nail-biting drama are, indeed, instantly laid out in the first episode. At the imposing family farm Feldumgaard, we follow adult siblings Astrid (Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, “A Fortunate Man,” “New Nurses”), Erik (Elliott Crosset Hove , “The Bridge,” “Godland”) and Thomas (Simon Bennebjerg, “Borgen,” “The Promised Land”) as they prepare for the 65th birthday party of their father Gorn (Lars Brygmann, “Dicte,” “Riders of Justice”). But the celebration quickly turns sour and nasty, like in Thomas Vinterberg’s “Festen,” when Gorn reveals who will inherit the farm.
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