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| Time-Bomb | |||
| Sweden, 2005, 17:45 min, 35 mm, colour, 1:1.85 | |||
| Director: Pernilla August | |||
| “Time-Bomb”, the unexploded bomb waiting to go off, reflects the fear of the time in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself crushed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears. |
| Cast | Jacob Ericksson, Angela Kovacs, Sanna Ekman Magnus Walhberg, Asta August |
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| Director | Pernilla August | |
| Producer | Freddy Olsson | |
| Screenplay | Cilla Neuman | |
| Director of photography | Anders Bohman | |
| Focus puller | Lasse Karlsson | |
| Loader | Philip Wachtmeister da Silva | |
| Gaffer | Bengt Steiner | |
| Gaffer assistant | Anton Öhrstrand | |
| Grip | Martin Bergenström | |
| Production design | Peter Bävman | |
| Props/ costume | Lotta Wihl | |
| Make up | Elizabeth Bukkehave | |
| Costume assistant | Maria Vieweg | |
| Props assistent | Git Johansson | |
| Carpenter | Stephan Malmberg | |
| Painter | Elna Bengtsson | |
| Sound/ sound design | Jan Alvemark | |
| Sound/ sound mix | Owe Svensson /Studio 24 | |
| Editor | Dominika Daubenbüchel | |
| Music | Jan Wallgren | |
| Location manager | China Åhlander | |
| 1st assistant director - continuity | Reuben Sletten | |
| Extras | Anja Schmidt | |
| Location assistent | Carlos Ravstam | |
| 2nd assistent director | Anna Juhlin Olsson | |
| Still photographs | Charlie Drevstam, Ralph Nyqvist | |
| Ystad Studios | Charlotte Wängerud, Ulf Bruxe, Doris Möller | |
| Laboratory | Digital Film Lab Copenhagen | |
| Post production coordinator | Peller Folmer | |
| Grader | Norman Nisbet | |
| Digital grader | Claus Greffel | |
| Video to film | Jimmi Berger | |
| Developing | Jens Kruse | |
| Special thanks | Marek Wieser, Dunkers kulturhus, Falck Security, Fly me & Falcon Air, Hilton Malmö City, Intra Group, Malmö Sturup Airport, Mercedes Benz, Ystad lasarett. | |
Produced by Bokomotiv - De Geer & Olsson AB
with support from Swedish Film Institute/ film commissioner Ann-Marie Söhrman Fermelin and SVT Drama/ Daniel Alfredsson. |
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“Time-Bomb”, the unexploded bomb waiting to go off, reflects the fear of the time in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself crushed between the pressures Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today fear has other faces. “Time-Bomb” examines a man pressured to the extreme by the current, unpredictable evil that may strike anywhere and at anytime. How does someone in the politicians’ position handle the terrorist threat when he must also deal with the threat of losing political power, position and strength? And how, furthermore, does he manage to overcome the everyday anxieties of ageing, decay and death? “Time-Bomb” mirrors how the power-elite, constituted by seemingly strong men, toil to keep the game going and in doing so keep the fear distant. Our politician is one such silent, resolute man who devotes great energy and effort to guarding how others behave. A man who himself will never risk doing wrong for fear of exposure. His great support is his wife but the consequences of his spiralling, intangible fears, ultimately prove fatal to their marriage. |
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