Becoming Astrid
Becoming Astrid (, ) is a 2018 biographical drama film about the early life of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. An international co-production between Sweden and Denmark, the film is directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen, from a screenplay co-written by Christensen and Kim Fupz Aakeson, and stars Alba August and Maria Fahl Vikander as young and elder incarnations of Lindgren, alongside Maria Bonnevie, Magnus Krepper, Trine Dyrholm, Henrik Rafaelsen and Björn Gustafsson.
Plot
Children from all over the world write letters to Astrid Lindgren (Maria Fahl Vikander), which makes her dream back to her youth in Småland. When she (Alba August) worked at Vimmerby tidning, she falls in love with the chief editor, Reinhold Blomberg (Henrik Rafaelsen), who is 30 years her senior. She becomes pregnant with a son, Lars. As an unwed mother, she chooses to give birth to her son in Copenhagen, where she did not have to disclose the father's name.
More details
| author | Kim Fupz Aakeson Pernille Fischer Christensen |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Denmark |
| director | Pernille Fischer Christensen |
| editor | Asa Mossberg Kasper Leick |
| events | http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55767 |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | astrid lindgren copenhagen foster family royal automobile club småland unwed mother |
| musicBy | Nicklas Schmidt |
| producer | Anna Anthony Lars G. Lindström Maria Dahlin |
| productionCompany | Avanti Film Danish Film Institute DCM Productions Film i Väst Nordisk Film Nordisk Film Production |
| publisher | DCM Film Distribution Nordisk Film |
| theme | biographical biographical drama |