The Pact

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Karen Blixen is a world famous Danish star and one of the greatest personalities of our time. She lives alone in Rungstedlund after a failed (love) adventure in Kenya. Thorkild Bjørnvig is an ambitious and sensitive 30-year-old beginner, newlywed with a small child. When the two meet, Blixen sees both talent and a remnant of her deceased lover Denys Finch Hatton - Bjørnvig sees genius, opportunity and a guiding star. The outcome of their meeting becomes a fateful pact, where Bjørnvig must obey Blixen, in exchange for his willingness to fulfill the potential within him - but it quickly becomes clear that Blixen doesn't believe that potential can be fully realized with the charge of a woman and a child. Driven by desire, lust, submissiveness and ambition, a series of patterns with fatal consequences begin, not only for themselves, but for their entire circle of acquaintances.

Format

  • Feature film

Genre

  • Drama

Director

  • Bille August

Actors

  • Birthe Neumann
  • Asta August

Budget

  • 3.400.000€

Year

  • 2021

SCOPE involvement

  • Finance
  • Line production

SCOPE involvement

Finance

  • Tax Shelter funds raised: 220.500€

Line production

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