‘Tove’s Room’ to premiere in Danish theatres
Tove’s Room (Toves værelse), a character drama written by Jakob Weis and directed by Martin Zandvliet, will premiere in Danish theatres June 22 and has already received outstanding reviews. Tove’s Room is based on Weis’ acclaimed play about author Tove Ditlevsen, and stars Paprika Steen, Lars Brygmann and Joachim Fjelstrup.
The film is set in 1963. A women’s liberation movement is underway. In a flat in Copenhagen, we meet one of the biggest female writers, Tove Ditlevsen, and her husband, the sadistic news editor in chief, Victor Andreasen. Tove’s talent is indisputable, only her husband’s destructive envy surpasses it. Their power struggle needs an audience, and on this very day they’re expecting a lunch guest, the promising young author Klaus Rifbjerg, who celebrates the modern woman. Klaus believes they’ll be talking about literature – what he doesn’t know is that a blood bath awaits him.