Swedish Banner Momento Produces Documentaries ‘Leaving Jesus,’ ‘The Underdog’ About Swedish Rapper Dogge Doggelito (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Momento Film, the leading Swedish banner founded by David Herdies (“Winter Buoy”) and Michael Krotkiewski (“Bellum — The Daemon Of War”), is boasting a slate of projects including the documentaries “Leaving Jesus” and “The Underdog,” as well as Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet.” While at Cannes, the banner also started teasing one of its biggest project so far, “The Swedish Torpedo,” Frida Kempff (“Winter Buoy”)’s period film inspired by the life of Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel in 1939. “The Swedish Torpedo” will start shooting in August with a topnotch cast led by Josefin Neldén (“Border,” “438 Days”), Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (“Royal Affair,” “Borgen”), as well as Lisa Carlehed (“The Emigrants”).
Co-produced by Sweden, Estonia, Belgium and England, the film opens in 1939, as Europe is on the brink of war. Sally, a 30-year-old single mom, dreams of being the first European woman to cross the English Channel.
While society and her family pushes her to follow her duties as a mother, she breaks free from conventions to pursue her dreams. “The Swedish Torpedo” marks the third directorial outing of Kempff, who previously won the Cannes jury prize with her short film “Micky Bader” and helmed “Knocking” which played at Sitges, among other festivals.
Kempff said “The Swedish Torpedo” was a “story that needs to be told, about a woman who accomplished the impossible and shattered both social norms and world records.” The banner is also soon completing “Madame Luna,” Daniel Espinosa’s (“Morbius,” “Easy Money”) drama about an Eritrean refugee who became a notorious human smugglers in Libya and was connected to the Italian Mafia.
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