The Ape Star goes viral - the swedish trailer of Apstjärnan is going online today!
There is nothing the orphan Jonna wants more than a mother in Linda Hambäck’s animated adaptation of Frida Nilsson’s award winning novel THE APE STAR, about outsiders and unconventional love. The feisty young orphan girl dearly wants to be adopted. Jonna will accept anyone, really, so long as her new parent loves Jonna… and only Jonna. But when her potential new mom drives up to the orphanage in an old car, she gets a big shock when the car door opens and a gorilla steps out! Jonna is not sure she wants to leave with the big, clumsy primate at first, but ape and girl quickly overcome their physical differences. But can their newfound domestic bliss survive the scheming of a local bully who's out to separate the two?
Script by Janne Vierth, director Linda Hambäck, composed music by Minna Weurlander and Tania Naranjo, producers Petter Lindblad, Linda Hambäck, Tonje Skar Reiersen, Lise Fernley, Claus Toksvig & Frederik Villumsen.
Animation by Mikrofilm, Nørlum and Dockhus Animation!
Actors Pernilla August, Rebecca Gerstmann, Stellan Skarsgård, Melinda Kinnaman mfl.
Premiers during spring 2021 in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Distribution by SF Distribution in the Nordic countries.
World sales by Attraction Distribution.
APSTJÄRNAN/THE APE STAR is produced by LEE Film
In co-production with Mikrofilm, Nørlum, Film i Väst and Sveriges Television
With support from Svenska Filminstitutet, Norsk filminstitutt, Det Danske Filminstitut,
Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Kreativa Europa MEDIA, Den Vestdansk Filmpulje & Danmarks Radio