The death of a hero

En hjältes död

Director

Karin Franz Körlof

Producers

Elin Bennett

Hanna Hannerz Simå

Cinematographer

Ari Willey

Editors

Karin Franz Körlof

Mauricio Molinari

Sound

Gustav Landbecker

Contact

Nordantill film
Tunnbindaregatan 37
602 21 Norrköping
[email protected]

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2024

Sweden

14 min

Color

In a small village where people don’t seem to get enough entertainment, a young man is engaged to balance on his head at the top of the church tower and thereafter fall to the ground and die. For doing this he will receive a great deal of money. The people gather enthusiastically at the church to watch the young man perform the task. It’s all over in a couple of seconds. And to everyone’s dismay the young man really dies in the end. Now their enthusiasm is switched into disappointment. To put up with such horrors should actually be forbidden, the people say and leave dissatisfied.

Directors' Biography

<p>The scriptwriter, actress and director Karin Franz Körlof is educated at Stockholms Dramatiska Högskola and has acted in a number of films, TV-productions and plays. She made her breakthrough in Pernilla August’s A Serious Game which made her Shooting Star at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2017. Karin has written and directed three short films as well as one play, Barbienazisten (The Barbie Nazi).</p>

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