Smilla's Sense of Snow(Movie, 1997)

Name: Smilla's Sense of Snow
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1997
Duration: T02:1:00
Rating: 3.2

2h 1min | Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 99 votes)

Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 mystery thriller film directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris. Based on the 1992 novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (this was also the title of the UK release of the film) by Danish author Peter Høeg, the film is about a transplanted Greenlander, Smilla Jaspersen, who investigates the mysterious death of a small Inuit boy who lived in her housing complex in Copenhagen. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen; Kiruna, Sweden; and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, at which August was nominated for the Golden Bear. ()

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About Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.

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Trailer(Trailer, 2:36)

Trailer (Trailer) | Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee ≣ 1997 ≣ Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, Denmark, Sweden

Shot in: Germany

Plays in: Copenhagen

Based on the work of: Peter Høeg ("Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow")

Made by: Bavaria Film, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Inuktitut (IU)

Translated into 17 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/28/1997

Cast: Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Jim Broadbent, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Loggia, Vanessa Redgrave, Mario Adorf, Bob Peck, David Hayman, Peter Capaldi, Matthew Marsh, Jürgen Vogel, Erik Holmey, Peter Gantzler, Lars Brygmann, Agga Olsen, Alvin Ing, Lars Bjarke, Ann Queensberry, Clipper Miano

Director: Bille August

Producer: Bernd Eichinger

Screenwriter: Ann Biderman

Film Editor: Janus Billeskov Jansen

Director of Photography: Jörgen Persson

Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams

Production Designer: Anna Asp

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Frøken Smillas Fornemmelse for Sne"

"Fröken Smillas känsla för snö"

"Smilla's Feeling For Snow"

Keywords: snow, comet, copenhagen, denmark, based on novel or book, murder investigation, nordic noir, conspiracy, inuit, arctic polar circle region

Budget: 35,000,000 USD

Revenue: 2,372,903 USD (= 7%)

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