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    THE END

    THE END 
    Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden

    SYNOPSIS

    Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life – until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. Son, a naïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and suddenly the delicate bonds of blind optimism that have held this wealthy clan together begin to fray. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble, with long-repressed feelings of remorse and resentment threatening to destroy the family’s delicate balance. But their reckoning with difficult truths also points to a different way forward, one based on acceptance, love, and a capacity for change.

    CREDITS

    Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer 
    Written by: Rasmus Heistenberg, Joshua Oppenheimer 
    Produced by: Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joshua Oppenheimer, Tilda Swinton 
    Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman 
    Editing: Niels Pagh Andresen 
    Production Design: Jette Lehmann 
    Costume Design: Frauke Firl 
    Make-Up & Hair: Barbara Kreuzer 
    Original Score: Josh Schmidt 
    Sound: Jörg Kidrowski, Henrik Garnov, Per Boström 
    Visual Effects: Peter Hjorth, Mikael Windelin 
    Casting: Laura Rosenthal 
    Cast: Tilda Swinton (Mother), George MacKay (Son), Moses Ingram (Girl), Michael Shannon (Father), Bronagh Gallagher (Friend), Tim McInnerny (Butler), Lennie James (Doctor), Danielle Ryan (Mary)

    STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR

    Other species may have brought about their own extinction, but I can’t imagine they saw it coming. They never discussed it, fretted over it, planned in detail how it might be avoided – and then did nothing.
    Imagine how foolish we would appear to them. We see the abyss ahead of us, we know we are racing toward it, yet we do not change course. We tell ourselves the cataclysm will never arrive; the day of reckoning will be postponed. Like in an action film, every time we cut back to the approaching disaster, it’s a little farther away than it should be, giving our hero just enough time to save himself.

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