‘Queen of Hearts’ Star Trine Dyrholm to Play Tove Ditlevsen in ‘Dependency,’ Produced by Piv Bernth’s Apple Tree (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Leading Danish actor Trine Dyrholm, who headlined Oscar winner “In a Better World” and Sundance Audience Award winner “Queen of Hearts,” is to star in four-part miniseries “Dependency.” Maren-Louise Käehne, whose credits include “Queen of Hearts,” “Blackwater” and “The Legacy,” has written the screenplay, which is adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Danish poet and author Tove Ditlevsen.
Apple Tree Productions, the Danish company headed by “The Killing” producer Piv Bernth and Lars Hermann, is producing the show, and Danish broadcaster TV2 is on board, Bernth told Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
Ditlevsen will be played by four actors in four periods of her life, from the late 1930s to her death in 1976, with Dyrholm playing the author and poet in her final years.
The miniseries starts on the final day of her life as she tidies up her financial affairs and delivers her last manuscript to her publisher.
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