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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1992 - 1.8 August

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TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

Category: Edition 1992

Synopsis
The film follows a lecture in the Aarhus Cathedral School in the years 1958-1960. During the first year of puberty, the protagonists acquire experiences with interest in the opposite sex, insecurity, love and even guilt. Elin is the most mature girl in the class, the others are jealous of her and the boys are insecure and competitive. It is gradually isolated from the community and receives no support from insensitive parents. The braver boy in the class, Niels-Ole, does not care about the girls in the class, but shows great interest in the young and beautiful Maj-Britt.

Original Title Kundskabens træ
Italian Title L'albero della conoscenza
Category Out of competition
Section Sweet North Wind
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 110'
Production Year 1981
Nationality Denmark
Directed by Nils Malmros
Screenplay Nils Malmros, Frederick Cryer
Music Saratoga Jazzband, Per Hillers Danseorkester
Main cast Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen, Line Arlien-Søborg

regista nils malmrosNILS MALMROS

Nils Malmros (born 1944), a Danish film director and screenwriter, is considered a leading auteur of realism in Danish cinema. Malmros is noted for his detailed focus on the common growing pains of adolescence and the loss of innocence, which he draws from his childhood experiences growing up in Århus, Denmark. His most notable films form a trilogy about schoolchildren in 1950s Århus: Lars-Ole 5c, Boys and Tree of Knowledge. The latter film, 1981's Tree of Knowledge (Kundskabens træ), is one of ten films listed in Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.
Malmros, self-educated as a filmmaker, is formally trained as a surgeon. In his film Facing the Truth (At kende sandheden), he performed all of the film's brain surgery sequences himself. Malmros is a 4-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and a 3-time recipient of the Robert Award for Danish Film of the Year.

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