Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn Andrésen, the former teen star who once embodied legendary character Tadzio in Visconti’s masterpiece, takes us on a remarkable journey of personal memories, cinema history, stardust and tragedy in what could be Björn’s last attempt to finally get his life back on track.
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Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri
Kristina Lindström is a filmmaker, journalist, and author. She has directed highly acclaimed documentaries including Astrid Lindgren (2014), Palme (with Maud Nycander, 2012) which was awarded with two Guldbagge Awards, Wonderboy (2003), The Era - Punk in three parts (2017) and Silence (with Kristian Petri , 2020). Among Lindström's work as an author, her trilogy about Swedish history from a young girl's perspective has become a long lived national success. Lindström has served as Head of Cultural and Factual Programming at public service broadcaster SVT where she has developed some of the channels most acclaimed program formats and documentaries. Among others, Lindström has been awarded the Linné Prize, Kristallen, Stockholm’s Culture Prize, and the Ikaros Award. Kristian Petri is a filmmaker, writer, and culture journalist with a distinctly personal voice that transcends genre and form. Petri's two shorts, "Once Upon a Time" and "The Crack", were selected for the Semaine de la Critique competition in Cannes in 1991 and 1992. His first feature film Between Summers(1995) was awarded with a Guldbagge Award and nominated for a Golden Globe and to best film at European Film Awards. It was also selected for the prestigious Quinzaine des Realisateurs in Cannes. Many of his films, including The Well(2005), Details (2003), and Tokyo Noise (2002) have been critically celebrated and have been nominated for and received a number of national and international awards. His latest film is L136 (2018) about the dramatic production of Ingmar Bergman’s mythical film: Winter Light.