Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2008 / Fighter / Denmark 2007
The headstrong daughter of conservative Turkish immigrants in Copenhagen tries to meet her uneducated parents’ high expectations while remaining true to her private passion – kung fu – in Fighter. Quality teen drama boasts an appealingly feisty heroine and high-energy martial arts action choreographed by Xian Gao (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
The headstrong daughter of conservative Turkish immigrants in Copenhagen tries to meet her uneducated parents’ high expectations while remaining true to her private passion – kung fu – in Fighter. Quality teen drama boasts an appealingly feisty heroine and high-energy martial arts action choreographed by Xian Gao (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Between familial duties and devotion to her sport, high-school student Aicha (Semra Turan) has little time for schoolwork, and certainly none for a boyfriend. Although her traditional father forbids it, Aicha joins an elite kung fu club run by a strict Chinese sifu (Gao) who secretly admires her spunk. After advanced student Emil (agile heartthrob Cyron Melville) is ordered to practise with Aicha, the two gradually develop deeper feelings. The graceful young actors, many nonpro with martial-arts experience, lend the story extra credibility.
100 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Natasha Arthy
/ Screenplay Natasha Arthy, Nikolaj Arcel
/ Dir. of Photography Sebastian Winterø
/ Music Frithiof Toksvig
/ Editor Kasper Leick
/ Producer Johnny Andersen
/ Production Nimbus Film
/ Cast Semra Turan, Nima Nabipour, Behruz Banissi, Cyron Bjørn Melville
/ Contact Danish Film Institute, Nimbus Film, Delphis Films
Danish Film Institute
Gothersgade 55, 1123, Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone: +45 337 434 00
Fax: +45 337 434 01
E-mail: [email protected]
Nimbus Film
Filmbyen 20, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Phone: +45 363 709 10
Fax: +45 363 409 11
E-mail: [email protected]
Delphis Films
, H2W 1M5, Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Phone: + 1 514 843 3355, +1 514 843 9574
E-mail: [email protected]
Christian Juhl Lemche
Film Institution Rep.
Semra Turan
Actress, Actress
Molly Malene Stensgaard
Film Institution Rep.
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