After the Wedding
- Mads Mikkelsen: Jacob
- Sidse Babette Knudsen: Helene
- Rolf Lassgård: Jørgen
- Stine Fischer Christensen: Anna
- Ida Dwinger: Annette
After the Wedding ( Efter brylluppet ) is a Danish- Swedish drama film by director Susanne Bier from the year 2006. The film was shown in Denmark on 24 February 2006 in Germany, he started on 1 February 2007.
Action
Jacob Petersen directs an orphanage in India. With some Indian workers he works on the outskirts of his ways to get the orphanage alive. The project has been running for over eight years, always short of bankruptcy over, but now the home is finally out of money. A potential donor is living in Copenhagen Swedish billionaire Jørgen, who paid him the flight and a luxury hotel room, so that he may accept a donation in Denmark.
The date, however, it turns out that Jørgen has by no means decided which project he wants to support generously. Until the decision of Jacob shall remain in Denmark.
Since Jørgens daughter Anna married the next day, he invites Jacob to the wedding. By chance he meets his former girlfriend Helen again. She was the woman of his life with her, he emigrated together to India. When he cheated on her with her best friend, she left him and moved back to Denmark. Now she is Jørgens woman.
Jacob learns during a speech Annas on their wedding that they do not Jørgens biological daughter, and his assumption that she could be his daughter, Helene confirmed the next day. Jacob is desperate and angry with Helene that he learns only after two decades of his daughter. Helene and Jørgen say he was nowhere to be found in India and now need to also tell Anna of Jacob. Anna and Jacob meet and seem to be quite easy to understand.
Despite all these problems, Jacob meets with Jørgen again because of funding his orphanage in India. Jørgen has to Jacob, to establish a foundation on Jacob and Anna's name and to provide a large sum of money to spend. One of the remedies in the contract, however, is that Jacob has to transfer his residence to Denmark. This is for Jacob initially not in question, as in India, the eight -year-old Pramod waiting for him, he rears since its birth, and he does not want to buy from Jørgen itself. While Jacob flees, Jørgen told him the real reason: Jørgen is terminally ill and will die soon. He has brought Jacob, so that it can take care of Anna, Helene and also to the two small twin sons Jørgens. Jacob is so upset that he takes refuge in his hotel room. As there but Anna howling appears, as their freshly wedded husband has cheated on her, Jacob recognizes that he should be there for his daughter and he can thus also help tens of thousands of orphans in India, he signed the contract with Jørgen so.
Jørgen dies and the next of Jacobs visit to India is being built already busy at the orphanage. Jacob asks Pramod whether this will come to Denmark with him, but he prefers to remain faithful to his home, too, because Jacob has previously always railed against the rich.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film said: " Compelling sociological and emotional experiment routinely staged and played excellent in the lead roles. "
Background
The two internationally successful Scandinavian actor Rolf Lassgård and Mads Mikkelsen, known as the former combines Wallander, the latter as an opponent of James Bond in Casino Royale and good-natured priest in Adam's Apples, are here in a production.
Susanne Bier has Brothers - Between brothers already proved that they by unexpected turns and a sure hand with their actors can bring exceptional drama on the canvas with known elements.
Awards
Susanne Bier won film festival in Vlissingen, The Netherlands 2006 Publieksprijs ( Audience Award ) for this film on the Film by the Sea International.
When the Danish Film Award Robert Stine Fischer Christensen won the award for Best Supporting Actress, the film was nominated but in ten other categories in which he missed out. For the European Film Awards, the film was in 2006 in the categories Best Director ( Susanne Bier ) and Best Actor ( Mads Mikkelsen ) nominated, but did not win any prizes.
After the wedding, the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominated in 2007 for the category, but lost to the German contribution to the lives of others.