The Danish Poet

The Danish Poet
Directed byTorill Kove
Produced byLise Fearnley
Marcy Page
Narrated byLiv Ullmann
Edited byPhyllis Lewis
Music byKevin Dean
Distributed byNorwegian Film Institute (Europe)
National Film Board of Canada (International)
Release date
  • 15 February 2006 (2006-02-15)
Running time
15 minutes
CountriesNorway
Canada
LanguageEnglish

The Danish Poet (Norwegian: Den danske dikteren) is a 2006 animated short film written, directed, and animated by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann. A co-production of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Mikrofilm AS of Norway, it has won both the Academy Award[1] and Genie Award for best animated short film.