Dagny is based upon the life of Norwegian female artist Dagny Juel (1867-1901). She was a writer and cultural worker as well as musician frequenting with some of the greatest artist in Berlin in the late 1800's.
As depicted in this film, she was a youthhood friend of fellow Norwegian and painter Edward Munch, which welcome her to Berlin were she went in 1892 to take piano lessons. There she met up with the likes of Swedish writer August Stindberg and polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski, in which she married.
To tell more about her life will spoil, so I won't. But Lise Fjeldstad does an outstanding role here as Dagny, where she litterary is in almost every frame of the movie.
The fil is directedby Norwegian Haakon Sandøy, with script written by Polish Aleksander Scibor-Rylski, as a Polish-Norwegian co-production.
The film has a great setting, but sometimes I feel it's too theatrical in some inhouse scenes. This disturbs some of the experience, and makes me unable to land in the film as a whole.
This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the forthysixth release in a new series with classics, NFK0046, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.
