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Before that, Arcel was perhaps best known for his period drama, A Royal Affair, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (now Best International Feature Film) at the 85th Oscars.
Nikolaj Arcel (born 25 August 1972) is a Danish filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2012 film A Royal Affair, which won two prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival and which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, as well as the 2017 American film The Dark Tower.
Jan 31, 2024 · With The Promised Land, he has finally made a true historical epic of his own. Based on The Captain and Ann Barbara by Danish novelist Ida Jessen, the 18th-century Nordic drama follows a war veteran, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen), who sets out to become the first man to cultivate Denmark's notoriously inhospitable Jutland Heath in the ...
Feb 15, 2024 · Director and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel is best known for A Royal Affair, another period piece starring Mikkelsen. At the centre of his new, considerably bolder outing is the actor’s variation...
To celebrate the UK release of the epic Nordic western The Promised Land, we caught up with the film’s BAFTA-nominated writer and director Nikolaj Arcel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) about the making of his latest, critically acclaimed film.
Nikolaj Arcel (born 25 August 1972; Copenhagen) is a Danish filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2012 film A Royal Affair, which won two prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival and which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, as well as the 2017 American film The Dark Tower.
Writer: A Royal Affair. Nikolaj Arcel was born on 25 August 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a writer and director, known for A Royal Affair (2012), The Promised Land (2023) and King's Game (2004).
