Glimt (2006) Online
Morten is a young medical student who's Japanese girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. When strange things begin to happen around him, he tries to find out who she really was. He discovers that her family is haunted by a curse, a curse that now haunts him and only can be broken in one special way. But the more he learns about his former Japanese girlfriends family, the more he learns about his own family ... And one tragedy rarely comes alone ...
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Max Brofeldt | - | Hiro |
| Evy Carstens | - | Marie |
| Birgitte Clauson-Kaas | - | Christina |
| Hans Due-Boje | - | Professor |
 | Elias Eliot | - | Morten |
 | Hakim Harder | - | Kennet |
| Sophie Jørgensen | - | Reiko |
| Marie Carmen Lindegaard | - | Lis |
| Siggy Norreen | - | The Messenger |
| Jens Ingemann Pedersen | - | Verner |
| Jesper Aagaard Placing | - | Søren |
| Isabella Rønne | - | Begravelse gæst |
The cast and crew worked for free on this production. They even paid for their own food and transportation.
Reiko's graveyard stone was made from an empty DVD carton box, coated with a special kind of spray paint that resembles stone.
Two versions of the music book was made. The copy was set on fire in one of the final scenes of the movie.
Two dresses was made, one for Reiko and one for Lis. They are very alike, except Reiko's dress resembles an evening gown and Lis' resembles a hospital patient dress. They are identical in color and fabric.
A hamster was rented for 24 hours at the price of 100 DKr to be set dressing for the location of Sørens apartment. During the whole shooting day, which involved two separate scenes, and lasted for several hours, the hamster slept peacefully and undisturbed.
Several locations where used without permission, including two different cemeteries, a public park, a car parking basement and a local laundromat. The scenes taking place in the Japanese garden and the church where both shot with permission.
All sound work in the movie was created in post-production. Both dialog, Foley, ambient and music. All in all 3374 individual sound files was used.
During post-production the director quit his day-job to get more time to work on the film. His wife took a bank loan so they could pay their bills until the film was finished and released on DVD.
Sørens apartment consists of 5 different locations. The different locations are as follows: Outside the building, in the parking garage, in the elevator, on the hallway and in the actual apartment.
In one of the final scenes where actor Elias Eliot is thrown up against a wall, which collapses all over him, it was never planned for the wall to do this. The building in which the scene was shot, was an old ruin with run down walls. Everyhting on the walls were so loose that the impact of someone being thrown onto it, made half the wall come down. The shot ended up being a one take, with no harm done to the actor.
In 2017 the Danish newspaper 'Politiken' released an add for their Movie section, containing classical music inspired by Thomas Gooseman's opening score for 'Glimpse'.
User reviews