The “Millennium trilogy” will have been a turning point for Scandi and German region co-productions – after Von Trier’s Antichrist and pending Melancholia, it’s now fellow countryman Ole Bornedal who’ll embark on a project that’ll lense in 2012 and will see the European countries of the North co-produce with Denmark’s Miso Film. Slaughterhouse Dybbøl (Slagtebænk Dybbøl) will be split into two films and receive a “Carlos”-like treatment and becomes yet another example of an auteur filmmaker crossing over into miniseries concept.
Based on Tom Buk-Swienty’s 2009 book, this is set on April 18, 1864, Battle of Dybbøl was the key campaign in the second war of Schleswig, where Denmark suffered a severe defeat to the German Federation (Prussia, Austria) which decided the war. The project will wait while Bornedal clears his plate – it was announced at Cannes, that he’d direct the indie project titled Death of a Hostess – which he’ll co-script alongside Jeppe Gjervig Gram.
