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Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Year:

1997

Duration:

121 min

Genres:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Bille August

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: Denmark

Release Date: 1997-02-28

Filming Locations: Bavaria Studios, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Earnings

Budget: $35,000,000

Opening Weekend: $107,108 (USA) (2 March 1997)

Gross: $2,221,994 (USA) (27 April 1997)

Cast

Actor

Character

Charlotte Bradley

Ona Fletcher

Inuit Hunter

Julia Ormond

Smilla Jasperson

Agga Olsen

Juliane Christiansen

Patrick Field

Policeman

Matthew Marsh

Detective

Gabriel Byrne

The Mechanic

Jim Broadbent

Dr. Lagermann

Tom Wilkinson

Prof. Loyen

Richard Harris

Dr. Andreas Tork

Charles Lewsen

Pastor (as Charles Lewson)

Robert Loggia

Moritz Jasperson

Emma Croft

Benja

Bob Peck

Ravn

Ann Queensberry

Mrs. Schou

Vanessa Redgrave

Elsa Lübing

David Hayman

Telling

Ida Julie Andersen

Smilla as a child

Maliinannguaq Markussen-Molgard

Smilla's mother (as Maliinannguaq Markussen-Mølgård)

Alvin Ing

Licht

Peter Capaldi

Birgo Lander

Mario Adorf

Capt. Sigmund Lukas

Jürgen Vogel

Nils Jakkelsen

Erik Holmey

Hansen

Peter Gantzler

Maurice

Lars Brygmann

Verlaine

Clipper Miano

Isaiah Christiansen

Lars Bjarke

Gangster (uncredited)

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Trivia

Director Bille August has admitted that the film did not turn out as well as he hoped. He said that in hindsight, adapting Peter Høeg's novel into film had serious problems from the script stage.

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Goofs

On the boat while, listening to the tape, Licht tells Smilla that an EEG is monitoring someone's heart. EEGs measure brain waves; EKGs (also called ECGs) measure heart rate and electrical activity.

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When Capt. Lukas is first seen in the casino, his hair, eyebrows, mustache are all black, with a little gray at the temples. The next day on, the ship, all of his hair is gray.

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When Smilla climbs over the fence after feeding the guard dog food laced with a tranquilizer, the dog disappears in one shot. It reappears in the next shot, then switches its sitting position from left to right between shots.

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Quotes

Smilla: I don't celebrate Christmas, it doesn't mean anything to me.

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Jakkelsen: No way. I get claustrophobic. I'm not kidding.

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Elsa Lubing: The Devil assumes many forms.

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