'The Tenth Muse' is a strong melodrama about Denmark's - and one of the World's - biggest silent film stars - Asta Nielsen.
The Dramatist Peter Asmussen wrote the screenplay -
and Torben Skjødt Jensen is the Director.
Sunday August 17. 2003 Torben Skjødt Jensens film 'THE TENTH MUSE' about the silent film star Asta Nielsen had it's World premiere. The film was in competition on the First Copenhagen International Film Festival, where it won three prices: Best Cinematography, Lifetime Achivment Award and an Audience award. The film had it's German premiere during the Hamburg Film Festival, September 22. 2003.
TORBEN SKJØDT JENSEN - DIRECTOR
BORN 1958. DURING THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES TORBEN SKJØDT JENSEN BECAME A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON THE VIDEO SCENE IN DENMARK. HE HAS DIRECTED AND PRODUCED SEVERAL SHORT FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES - FOR INSTANCE 'THE FLÂNEUR TRILOGI' - AND SEVERAL FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES - AMONG THEM THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 'CARL TH. DREYER - MY METIER', AND OF COURSE HIS LATEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIE 'ASTA NIELSEN - THE TALKING MUSE'. TORBEN SKJØDT JENSEN HAS ALSO DIRECTED SEVERAL SHORT FICTION FILMS. 'THE TENTH MUSE' IS HIS SECOND FEATURE FILM, THE FIRST ONE 'THE MAN WHO WOULD LIVE FOREVER' WAS MADE IN 1999.
PETER ASMUSSEN - SCRIPTWRITER
BORN 1957. PETER ASMUSSEN HAD HIS DEBUT AS AN AUTOR IN 1989. HE ALSO STARTED WRITING AS A DRAMATIST AT THE SAME TIME, AND HE HAS WRITTEN NUMEROUS SCRIPS FOR BOTH TELEVISION, RADIO, THEATRE AND FILMS, AMONG THOSE 'BREAKING THE WAVES' FOR LARS VON TRIER.
HARALD PAALGARD - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY HARALD PAALGARD HAS PREVIOUSLY WORKED WITH TORBEN SKJØDT JENSEN ON 'CARL TH. DREYER - MY METIER' AND 'THE MAN WHO WOULD LIVE FOREVER'. HE HAS WON SEVERAL NORWEIGIAN AND SWEDISH NATIONAL AWARDS FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY, AND LATEST HE WON A GOLDEN SWAN AS BEST DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR 'THE TENTH MUSE' ON THE FIRST COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BASED ON THE FOLLOWING REASON: "SHOT IN HDTV, THE FILM DISPLAYS ALL THE VAST POSSIBILITIES OF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY. THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY PERFECTLY MASTERED THE TRANSITIONS BETWEEN THE BLACK AND WHITE OF THE SILENT FILMS AND THE MODERN DIGITAL IMAGES OF TOMORROW."
GHITA BECKENDORFF - EDITOR
ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC, EXPERIENCED DANISH EDITORS. GHITA BECKENDORFF GRADUATED FROM THE DANISH FILM SCHOOL AND HAS WORKED WITH DIRECTORS LIKE ASTRID HENNING-JENSEN, ERIK CLAUSEN AND ANNE WIVEL EDITING BOTH FEATURES AND DOKUMENTARIES. RECEIVED THE DANISH FILM CRITICS’ BODIL AWARD 1992. WORK IN RECENT YEARS INCLUDES JAN TROELL’S 'HAMSUN', MORTEN HENRIKSEN’S 'THE MAGNETIST’S FIFTH WINTER' AND MOST RECENT THE AWARD-WINNING DOKUMENTARY THE OCCUPIED.
ANDERS KOPPEL - COMPOSER
WITH THE SOUNDTRACK TO 'THE TENTH MUSE' ANDERS KOPPEL ADDS TO THE LONG LIST OF MUSIC COMPOSED TO THE UNIVERSE OF FILMS BY TORBEN SKJØDT JENSEN. AGAIN ANDERS KOPPEL HAS COMPSED A SPELLBOUNDING, UNPREDICTABLE AND BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET OF MELODIES, WITH AN INCOMPARABLE AND VIRTUOS HANDLING OF THE CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE. THE SOUNDTRACK FOR 'THE TENTH MUSE' IS RECORDED WITH THE DR CONCERT ORCHESTRA AND THE YOUNG PIANIST RIKKE SANDBERG CONDUCTED BY FRANS RASMUSSEN.
ORDER THE SOUNDTRACK AT COWBELLMUSIC.
