| A Fortunate Man | |
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| Directed by | Bille August |
| Written by | Bille August Anders August |
| Based on | Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan |
| Starring | Esben Smed Katrine Greis-Rosenthal |
| Distributed by | Nordisk Film |
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Running time | 162 minutes |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | Danish |
A Fortunate Man (Danish: Lykke-Per) is a 2018 Danish drama film directed by Bille August.[1] In August 2018, it was one of three films shortlisted to be the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.[2] The film is based on the eight-volume novel (originally and correctly translated into English as Lucky Per)[3] by Danish Nobel Prize-winning author Henrik Pontoppidan and published between 1898 and 1904.[4] The film's title comes from the 2018 translation by Paul Larkin – A Fortunate Man, published by Museum Tusculanum Press – and The film was released on American Netflix streaming on 19 April 2019.[5]
- ^ "The first trailer for 'A Fortunate Man' has been released". Cinema Scandinavia. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ "A Fortunate Man and The Guilty shortlisted for the Oscars". Nordisk Film. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ Wood, James (14 October 2019). "A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ "Om kanon for litteratur" Archived 11 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Kulturkanon. (in Danish) Retrieved 21 April 2019
- ^ "A Fortunate Man". Netflix. 30 August 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2019.