Aalmsted, 21st November
| Aalmsted, 21st November | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Mâþijas Hermanssun |
| Screenplay by | Mâþijas Hermanssun Freija Akselsdohter |
| Starring | Magdaleina Johansdohter Asker Alekssun Hilda Freisdohter Karl Ryginssun |
| Music by | Lorens Leifssun |
Production company | Mâþreija Studios |
Release dates | 28th October 2023 (Montecara) 21st November 2023 (Azmara) |
Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | Azmara |
| Language | Azmaran |
| Budget | €4.7 million |
Aalmsted, 21st November (Azmaran: Aalmsted, Twintyk-erst Noowember) is an upcoming 2023 Azmaran psychological drama film directed by Mâþijas Hermanssun. Based on a screenplay co-written by Hermanssun and his wife, Freija Akselsdohter, the film stars Magdaleina Johansdohter as a journalist attempting remember details of her life after waking up from a car crash, with Asker Alekssun, Hilda Freisdohter and Karl Ryginssun co-starring. It marks the third collaboration between Hermanssun and Akselsdohter after Wartest ân Minuut (2013) and Et Rejneþ Raad Rosen (2018) and the second collaboration between Hermanssun and Alekssun after Et Rejneþ Raad Rosen.
The film's premiere is scheduled for the 84th Montecara Film Festival on 28th October 2023, with a theatrical release in Azmara following on the 21st November 2023.
Plot
The film begins with Karoliina waking up alone in a hospital bed and noting a screen displaying the date of the 1st December. She panics, not remembering any of November. Her panicking alerts Nurse Maarten, who remarks that she has been in a coma for the past ten days. The nurse is initially relieved when Karoliina correctly identifies Freidrik Aleksaanderssun as the Thingspeaker, but expresses concern when she reveals she cannot remember any events of November.
As Maarten asks her to describe an important event in her life as a memory test, the film flashes back to 2015 and shows Karoliina moving into her accommodation at Lilijenburg Arts Institute as an Azmaran Literature student. Emotional at leaving her family and moving from rural North Westmaark to a major city, she goes for a drink at the college bar with Aleksander, a foreign languages student living in the next flat over. Bonding over their shared interest in 19th-century Azmaran literature and their shared rural upbrining, the two spend much of their first week in Aalmsted together and become close. After the end of the first week, Karoliina calls her mother, noting Aleksander as her "first real university friend" and expressing a wish for their relationship to progress.
The film then cuts to a party two months later,
Cast
- Magdaleina Johansdohter as Karoliina
- Asker Alekssun as Maarten
- Karl Ryginssun as Aleksander
- Hilda Freissdohter as Freija, Karoliina's single mother