Monas verden is a Danish

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 film from 2001, directed by Jonas Elmer

Jonas Elmer (director)

Jonas Elmer is a Danish film director, screenwriter and previously an actor. In 1988 he was a production assistant at the set of Family Business, starring Sean Connery....

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The actors could work relatively freely of a script by Nikolaj Peyk. The story was first created by Jonas Elmer with Sidse Babet Knudsen, and given to the actors (12-13 pages). A test filming of the improvisation took place, and was then made in to the script by Nikolaj Peyk.

Jonas Elmer also had the idea of creating a website

Website

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 where everybody could write suggestions for the film, such as the actor's lines, the locations, the poster, taglines, logos, and the plot of the film. The website (monasverden.tv2.dk) was put up in 2000.

Cast

• Sidse Babett Knudsen
  Sidse Babett Knudsen
  Sidse Babett Knudsen is a Danish actress who has worked in theater, television, and film. Knudsen made her screen debut in the 1997 improvisational comedy Let's Get Lost, for which she received both the Robert and Bodil awards for Best Actress.Following the critical success of her debut, Knudsen...
  
   - Mona
• Thomas Bo Larsen
  Thomas Bo Larsen
  Thomas Bo Larsen is a Danish film actor, born in Gladsaxe, Denmark.He's been married to Patricia Schumann since 2001, and currently lives in Copenhagen....
  
   - Thorbjørn
• Mads Mikkelsen
  Mads Mikkelsen
  ' is a Danish actor.-Life and career:Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, the son of Bente Christiansen and Henning Mikkelsen, a cab driver. He is the brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie Pusher...
  
   - Casper
• Klaus Bondam
  Klaus Bondam
  Klaus Bondam is a Danish actor and politician.Klaus Bondam got his breakthrough in the movie Festen and has starred in the series Langt fra Las Vegas as the sexually driven boss Buckingham...
  
   - Don J
• Jesper Asholt - Chefen
• Bjarne Henriksen - Tommy
• Bodil Udsen
  Bodil Udsen
  Bodil Udsen was a Danish actress.She was a student at the Rysensteen Gymnasium in Copenhagen in 1944 and entered film in 1955...
  
   - Gudrun

Awards and nominations

• 2001 Special Prize in Memoriam R.W. Fassbinder, winner: Jonas Elmer
  Jonas Elmer
  Jonas Elmer is a Swiss footballer. He currently plays for FC Sion.-Early career:Elmer was signed by English Premier League side Chelsea in the summer of 2005 from Grasshoppers...
  
  , awarded at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
• 2002 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...
  
   nomination: Best Film - Monica Steenberg (producer)
• 2002 Bodil Award nomination: Best Actress - Sidse Babett Knudsen

External links

• Monas verden at the Danish Film Institute
  Danish Film Institute
  The Danish Film Institute is the national Danish agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture, and for conserving these in the national interest....