Worlds Apart is a 2008

2008 in film

This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

 Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

 drama directed by Niels Arden Oplev

Niels Arden Oplev

Niels Arden Oplev is a writer-director from Denmark.-Biography:He directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the film based on Stieg Larsson's novel of the same title and won critical acclaim internationally. Oplev decided to not continue directing the second and third parts of the Millennium...

 and written by Oplev and Steen Bille

Steen Bille

Disambiguation: See Steen Andersen Bille for relationships to other naval officers in the family-Early Years:Influenced by his father’s roll in the defence of Copenhagen in 1807, and the visits of many leading naval figures to his parents’ house, he became a cadet in 1809 at the age of 12, seven...

. The film stars Rosalinde Mynster and Pilou Asbæk. Based upon a true story, the film is about a 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl who struggles to reconcile her faith and her secret romance with a non-believer boy. Worlds Apart played at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...

 and was submitted by Denmark for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

Cast

Actor	Role
Rosalinde Mynster	Sara (as Rosalinde Spanning)
Johan Philip Asbæk	Teis (as Pilou Asbæk)
Jens Jørn Spottag	Andreas Dahl(Husband)
Sarah Boberg	Karen (as Sarah Kjærgaard Boberg)
Anders W. Berthelsen	John
Sarah Juel Werner	Elisabeth
Jacob Ottensten	August (as Jacob August Ottensten)
Thomas Knuth-Winterfeldt	Jonas (disfellowshipped Son)
Charlotte Fich Charlotte Fich Charlotte Fich is a Danish stage, film and television actress. She is most often recognized for her role as police officer Ingrid Dahl in the Emmy awarded Danish television series Unit One...	Jette
Hans Henrik Voetmann	Vagn
Catrine Beck	Thea
Hans Henrik Clemensen	Erik

Plot

Sara is a teenager who lives with her family, who are Jehovah's Witnesses. The family's devout image is questioned when the parents divorce as a consequence of the father's infidelity. One night at a party Sara meets Teis, an older boy who takes an interest in her. Teis is not a Witness, and their relationship is rejected by her father, but Sara falls in love and begins to doubt her faith. Facing ostracism from her faith and family, Sara must make the toughest choice of her young life.

External links

• To verdener at IMDb
• To verdener at Den Danske Film Database
• To verdener at Det Danske Filminstitut