QUEEN OF HEARTS

DRONNINGEN

By May EL-TOUKHY

DADA FILMS - as CONS

Drama - Completed 2019

A woman jeopardizes both her career and her family when she seduces her teenage stepson and is forced to make an irreversible decision with fatal consequences.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFF 2019
Voices
Sundance Film Festival 2019
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • DENMARK
    • Languages
    • DANISH, SWEDISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 128 mn
    • Director(s)
    • May EL-TOUKHY
    • Writer(s)
    • Maren Louise KÄEHNE, May EL-TOUKHY
    • Producer(s)
    • Caroline BLANCO, René EZRA, Henrik ZEIN
    • Synopsis
    • Anne, a successful lawyer, lives in a beautiful modernist home with her two daughters and physician husband, Peter. Yet when Gustav, Peter’s troubled teenage son from another relationship, comes to live with them, Anne forms an intimate bond with Gustav that jeopardizes her perfect life. And what initially seems like a liberating move for Anne soon turns into a disturbing story of power, betrayal, and responsibility with devastating consequences.