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Kaspar Astrup Schröder
DK 2019 22'
⚬ Kids & Youth
11-year old Yang from Beijing plays the leading role as the Monkey King at the famous Chinese Opera. But his passion for this traditional art form is misunderstood by his peers. In the attempt to fit in at school, he invites three classmates to the premiere. Will they now understand his fascination with the myth of the Monkey King, and accept him as a friend?
Director | Kaspar Astrup Schröder |
Producer | Maria Stevnbak Westergren |
Co-Producers | Knut Skoglund, Karl Emil Rikardsen |
Executive Producers | Signe Leick Jensen, Morten Kaufmann |
Production Company | Toolbox Film |
Co-Production Companies | Relation04 Media, Pedersen & Co |
Cinematographer | Kaspar Astrup Schröder |
Editor | Kaspar Astrup Schröder |
Music | Ali Helnwein |
Sound | Rune Palving |
| Runtime | 22' |
| Spoken Languages | Chinese |
| Production Countries | Denmark |
Kaspar Astrup Schröder is an award winning director, and has also worked with various editing jobs on fiction-, short- and documentary films. Schröder's first long documentary film as a director was THE INVENTION OF DR. NAKAMATS (2009). The film is a portrait of the Japanese inventor and eccentric. His film RENT A FAMILY INC. (2012) is also based on a Japanese phenomenon, that is the rental of extras for special occasions. Among his other films are BIG TIME (2017), a portrait of architect Bjarke Ingels and WAITING FOR THE SUN (2017), which is about an orphanage in China.
