P.O.V. No.21 - The Staircase: Data on the film and the director

THE STAIRCASE / FEM TRAPPOR





Hanna Andersson
Sweden, 2004, color, digibeta, 5 min.

Principal production credits
Director
Writer
Dramaturg
Director of photography
Editor
Sound
Producer
Production
Hanna Andersson
Karin Arrhenius
Alexander Skantze
Andréas Lennartsson
Karin Tallroth
Maja Lindén
Misha Jaari
Dramatiska Institutet, Filmhuset, Stockholm

Cast
Greta as old woman
Greta as young
The lover
Ingrid Luterkort,
Pernilla Göst,
Piotr Giro

Awards include
Best School Film, 5th Paris Short Films Festival Court 18
The Cinema Prize, Short Film + Best Actress Prize to Ingrid Luterkort, Avanca
The Third Prize, 11th International Film and Television Schools' Festival 2004, Lodz

Synopsis
While being carried away by paramedics, 90-year old Greta recalls her most cherished memory.



The director: Hanna Andersson
HANNA ANDERSSON began her studies in directing at Dramatiska Institutet in the autumn of 2001 and made the film Memento Mori in her first year at the institute. The Staircase was made in her final year and she graduated in 2004 with the film Bedragaren. She has just finished a novella film called Brevbärarens hemlighet. Other works include Valborgsmässoafton (2004), Kung ful (2003) and Italienska bilder (2000).

The screenwriter: Karin Arrhenius
KARIN ARRHENIUS completed her studies in scriptwriting for film and television at Dramatiska Institutet in 2004. She was scriptwriter for the TV series Berglunds begravningar, aka Levande begravda (2003), Kom tillbaka (2004), En familj (2004), Fem trappor (2004) and Vanya Vet (2005), and is currently writing a script based on the novel Ett Öga Rött / One Eye Red by Jonas Hassen Khemiri.




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