It is now soon 14 months ago, filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg got the worst possible call. His daughter was dead.
4. may of last year he had and his daughter Nanna already had a scared slightly, as they had tried to get through to Nanna sister, Thomas vinterberg’s the 19-year-old daughter Ida. For they knew that she, together with her Nanna mother, Maria Walbom Vinterberg, found themselves on a highway in Belgium. But they went directly to the answering machine.
he says to Politiken
On the phone tinted a belgian number now forward, and when Thomas Vinterberg rushed to take it, told a doctor that there had been a terrible accident. He was talking, until Thomas Vinterberg interrupted him and demanded to know whether his daughter lived.
She did not, unfortunately, sounded the message, which has changed the family’s life forever.
this is The first time, Thomas Vinterberg talks about the loss of his daughter. When the tragedy happened last year, released the film company Zentropa a short notice on the date of death. And shortly after the indented family an ad in several newspapers with the wording:
‘Our beloved and luminous Ida Maria Vinterberg was taken from us in a road traffic accident on 4. may 2019’.
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In a great interview with Politiken on Sunday, tells the Danish film director in the day the story about the loss of his daughter. About loss, about sorrow and about the struggle to find your footing. Especially for his other three children, who still need him.
Ida was just come home from Africa, and would need some days to Paris to meet up with some friends. But SAS organised, so it was her mother who drove her down there.
Thomas Vinterberg
the 50-year-old Vinterberg is especially known for the film ’the Party’ from 1998.
the Film was selected for the main competition in Cannes, where it won the special Jury Prize.
In 2013 got Vinterberg also success with ’the Hunt’, which won several awards in Cannes.
Thomas Vinterberg and Maria Walbom Vinterberg, who is theatre manager at Teatret ved Sorte Hest in copenhagen, was in 2007, divorced after 17 years of marriage. They had two daughters together.
With his current wife, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Vinterberg also a son, Albert of six years and daughter Lily, three. All were present for the funeral on Saturday.
Shortly before the call from the doctor had Ida sent a picture to his father’s phone. A picture of a sign she had seen on the road, with the text ‘It’s All About Love’. And so drove her out on her last trip with her mother.
In the interview with Danish newspaper Politiken, Thomas Vinterberg on how the whole family shortly after the total in the garden in Charlottenlund. And how they a few days later went to Belgium to visit Ida’s mother, who today is almost recovered from his injuries. And to see Ida in the morgue.
She was so lifeless… and beautiful, says Thomas Vinterberg.
the Director is still very much the mark of his daughter’s death. After the accident was shooting for the film ‘binge Drinking’ is put in the stand. But after the funeral, they began again. The film, which among other things going on in the Ida’s old gymnasium, both to and for her, he says. And, like her psychologist, he believed that it could help him to go to work.
Ida Maria Vinterberg should even have played the daughter of the main character in the film ‘binge Drinking’. Instead, it is written the script to that actor Mads Mikkelsen has two sons.
the Film has just been selected for the main competition in this year’s coronaudgave of the Cannes film festival. In Denmark, the premiere to september.
Watch the trailer for ‘Drinking’ here. Video: Nordic Film.
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