Shelley | |
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Directed by | Ali Abbasi |
Written by | Ali Abbasi Maren Louise Käehne |
Produced by | Jacob Jarek |
Starring | Ellen Dorrit Petersen Cosmina Stratan Peter Christoffersen |
Cinematography | Nadim Carlsen Sturla Brandth Grøvlen |
Edited by | Olivia Neergaard-Holm |
Music by | Martin Dirkov |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Denmark |
Languages | Danish English |
Shelley is a 2016 Danish drama horror film directed and co-written by Ali Abbasi (in his feature directorial debut) and stars Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Peter Christoffersen as a couple who, faced with the inability to bear children, arrange for their Romanian maid (Cosmina Stratan) to be a surrogate mother, soon leading to increasingly sinister events as the due date approaches.[1] It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]