**Please note this film is NOT being screened at the SCC. See below for screening details**

The SCC is pleased to take part in the National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival for the second year in a row. This year we partner to present A Fortunate Man.

This epic drama from Academy Award–winning director Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) is gorgeously realized with dazzling cinematography, exceptional performances, sumptuous costume design, and period detail. In the 1880s, a gifted but self-destructive young man leaves his suffocating Lutheran upbringing in the country for metropolitan Copenhagen. An engineer with progressive ideas, he is welcomed by a wealthy Jewish family and ingratiates himself into their opulent milieu, embarking on a journey of personal and professional ambition that teeters on the razor’s edge between triumph and catastrophe. Told with a dramatic, romantic sweep on par with the great classics of cinema, A Fortunate Man is not to be missed. Adapted from Denmark’s canonical novel, Lykke-Per by Danish Nobel Prize–winning author Henrik Pontoppidan.

“August’s ensemble cast is splendid. The production is panoramic and glorious, filmed in Copenhagen, Jutland, Lolland, Funer, and parts of Austria. View it on the largest screen you can find.” —The Independent

Dir: Bille August | Denmark | 2018 | 162m | Danish & German w/ English subtitles

Friday, May 10, 12:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre. Purchase here.

Saturday, May 18, 6:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts (Remis) On Sale April 18th.