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Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen receives International Emmy Award, Nov. 19 in New York.
Photo: AFP / VNA / CVN |
Last darling, In the name of the Father, broadcast on the French-German channel Arte from Thursday, November 29, the new series of Adam Price, screenwriter of the acclaimed Borgenwho followed the political and personal tribulations of an ambitious Prime Minister. A clever mix of exoticism and realism explains the appetite of the globalized audience for these initially local and non-English series, says Pia Jensen, professor of information sciences at the University of Aarhus and series specialist.
For a long time confined to the police genre, the Danish series exploded internationally with The Killing, where we follow the investigations of a police detective from Copenhagen. She has since passed this thumbnail Nordic Black, itself standardized and whose aesthetic is found beyond the Scandinavian borders in series like Shetland or Broadchurch, produced in Britain, explains Mme Jensen. For a foreign audience, Denmark as it is shown on television is "an exotic society to be sucked into because of the welfare state and strong women characters. "" As if Denmark were the paradise of parity ", if she enjoys. Paradoxically, in this almost ideal world, characters evolve "normal"to which the public says to identify easily, underlines the researcher.
The ways of the Lord
Distributed in nearly 80 countries, In the name of the Father, explores the intricacies of the daily life of a Danish pastoral family, dominated by the figure of a voluntary and tempestuous father beset by many demons, Johannes Krogh. Lars Mikkelsen, who plays this pastor in his fifties and who was already playing in The Killing, has just been awarded an International Emmy Award. Also acclaimed for his performance as Russian President in House of Cardshe has, with this role "created a new stallion for the performance of a main character in a TV series", ensures the creator of the program, Adam Price, a key figure in cultural creation in Denmark.
"Johannes is the tenth generation of pastors: it is a huge burden that torments him and he leaves him tormenting his sons"The elder, Christian, lost, is out of the ban while the second, August, pastor as dad and married, conscientiously follows the family path until he becomes chaplain for the troops stationed in Afghanistan. "In the Bible, there are many stories of fathers, sons and brothers, it was a fertile ground for talking about male relationships, the gene of competition between men of the same family", Mr. Price analyzes.
Dissection
We find in In the name of the Father part of the DNA of "Borgen": the effective politician Birgitte Nyborg shares with the cacique Johannes Krogh a passion for his work. "But Johannes reacts differently because his ambition is not related to the political world, it concerns a more supernatural power", note Adam Price. Reflection on faith and religion intertwines a conscientious dissection of the family matrix.
"Religion is sometimes something imposed, in the same way that authority can be imposed on our children in a family ", underlines the screenwriter, who is currently working on Ragnarok for Netflix, a six-episode series in which a god of Norse mythology reincarnates as a teenager of the modern world. In the name of the Father has been thought of as a story in two acts, the second season is currently broadcast on the public TV DR, which has produced it, and brings together more than 500,000 viewers.
This country of 5.8 million people is proud of its reputation as a small and big screen innovator. "Danish producers mostly think of a Danish audience for which they must be relevant and that is why DR continues to experiment. Some series will travel – and some will not, raise Mme Jensen.
AFP / VNA / CVN
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