HEARTLESS
PITCH
Heartless centers on a brother and sister, Sofie and Sebastian, played by Julie Zangenberg and Sebastian Jessen. Sofie and Sebastian are the bearers of a dreadful curse. In order to live, they must suck the life from others.
Both are determined to solve the mystery of the curse that is upon them, and the hunt for answers leads the duo to Ottmannsgård, a gloomy, tradition-bound boarding school, where a new life begins for both of them. They are soon inducted into school society, where the two teenage drifters prove hard to handle. At the school, they first fall properly in love, and must deal with the strong feelings this prompts – as well as resisting the compulsion to suck life from the other pupils.
But Sofie and Sebastian are not the only ones at Ottmannsgård to harbor a secret, and little by little a dark and terrible story going back 400 years starts to seep up through the floorboards of the old building, making this boarding school the setting for a fateful story of sin and forgiveness, life and death, love and mysterious forces.
CAST
Sofie:
Sebastian:
Just:
Emilie:
Clara:
Lærke:
Ditlev:
Julie Zangenberg
Sebastian Jessen
Nikolaj Kopernikus
Julie Christiansen
Marie Boda
Molly Egelind
Gustav Giese
TEAM
Head Writer:
Writer:
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Production Designer:
Nikolaj Scherfig
Morten Dragsted
Natasha Arthy
Ronnie Fridthjof
Jesper Tøffner
Felicia Bang
FACTS
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Financing:
Fridthjof Film A/S
TV / 5 x 42:30
Fantasy horror.
DFI / Public Service Puljen
SBS Discovery Media
Copenhagen Film Fund
Fridtjof Film A/S
Expected Release:
Kanal 5 / Spring 2014
Photo: Rolf Konow