8.6 /10 1 Votes
100% Rotten Tomatoes Produced by Thomas Heinesen Cinematography Lars Vestergaard Box office 4.362 million USD | 7.1/10 IMDb Directed by Niels Arden Oplev Music by Jakob Groth Director Niels Arden Oplev Distributor Nordisk Film | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Niels Arden Oplev
Steen Bille Starring Rosalinde Mynster
Pilou Asbæk
Jens Jørn Spottag Initial release 22 February 2008 (Denmark) Awards Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Cast Pilou Asbæk, Rosalinde Mynster, Anders W Berthelsen, Jens Jørn Spottag, Sarah Boberg Similar We Shall Overcome, A War, Just Another Love Story, R, Portland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Worlds apart to verdener
Worlds Apart (Original title: To verdener) is a 2008 Danish drama directed by Niels Arden Oplev and written by Oplev and Steen Bille. The film stars Rosalinde Mynster and Pilou Asbæk. Based upon a true story, the film is about a 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl who struggles to reconcile her faith and her secret romance with a non-believer boy. Worlds Apart played at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival and was submitted by Denmark for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Worlds apart
Plot
Sara is a teenager who lives with her family, who are Jehovah's Witnesses. The family's devout image is questioned when the parents divorce as a consequence of the father's infidelity. One night at a party Sara meets Teis, an older boy who takes an interest in her. Teis is not a Witness, and their relationship is rejected by her father, but Sara falls in love and begins to doubt her faith. Facing ostracism from her faith and family, Sara must make the toughest choice of her young life.