STAY BEHIND - MY GRANDFATHER’S SECRET WAR /
STAY BEHIND - MIN FARFARS HEMMELIGE KRIG
One-off creative Documentary, 90 min., 2017
One trace after the other indicates that Ida’s 94-year old beloved Grandfather, a respected dentist from the province and a freedom fighter under the occupation of Denmark, worked directly under the CIA during the Cold War in Denmark. It´s not something he´s willing to admit to, though. This is a family affair with global wings, high stakes and big surprises.
Why did Otto sleep with a loaded gun right next his bed until he dropped it in the sea in 1982? How come he and his soulmate Dagmar took off to the USA in 1952, leaving their new flourishing dentist business behind to spend a year that they´ve forgotten all details about? And why is the traumatized Polish hitman, Jan, who admits to have served secretly under the CIA on Danish ground insisting that he has known and worked with Otto during the Cold War? These questions, along with the findings of a secret archive in a basement downtown Copenhagen, are what Ida sets out to learn more about.
Director Ida Grøn
Producer Vibeke Vogel
Cinematographer Henrik B. Ipsen & Ida Grøn
Editor Anders Villadsen
Composer Roger Gouda
Production Bullitt Film & GotFat Productions
With support from Danish Film Institute, DR TV, Vest Danske Filmpulje, Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Additional support YLE, UR, RUV
Awards Nordic:DOX 2017 Nominee
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TRAILER
Ida Grøn
Ida Grøn is born on a crossroad of artists, farmers and academics in the countryside of Denmark. Grøn's documentaries have been broadcasted primetime on main TV-stations nationally and worldwide, among others on DR1, DR2, TV2, Arte and AL Jazeera English.
Her mid-length documentary "The Kid and the Clown" was shown at some of the greatest documentary film festivals in the world, among others IDFA, Hot Docs, Krakow and Al Jazeera and won 5 international awards in (2012/2013). Gron is the co-founder of the Danish artist/curator group Tagging Art through which she exhibited her video art on the Danish National Gallery (2008).
She is educated documentary director from the acclaimed National Film and Television School in England, under The Royal College of Art. She also holds a BA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen.