Even though he believed in God throughout his entire life, the author lost all his faith on a journey to Jerusalem! The journey is entirely fictional because the author was under hypnosis, but nevertheless what we are seeing in the film is a reality that transcends the little story unwinding in his head, and becoming a bigger story of Jerusalem. The main protagonists, and at the same time those responsible for author’s loss of faith, are three street preachers: Israel, a Jewish humanitarian worker, who digs garbage cans and gives others what he finds inside; Muhammad, who is a Muslim and who helps drug addicts get rid off their addiction in his own house; and Ted, an American missionary who just like Christ preaches to the people on the streets. All three of them are trying to convince the protagonist of the bigger story in the righteousness of their own faiths.
Jeppe Rønde
Jeppe Rønde is a young director, born in 1973 in Denmark. He graduated from the Copenhagen Academy of Film Science and Art History, where he currently works as a professor. In his films he is often directing, shooting and editing, whereas his professional music career enables him to compose the music for his own films. The film we will see is his first feature-length film and at the same time a part of a trilogy ‘Faith, hope and love’. He has just finished the second part entitled ‘The Swenkas’.
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Jerusalem, Min Elskede
Denmark
2003, 73', 35 mm
Directed by:
Jeppe Rønde
Screenplay by:
Jeppe Rønde
Cinematography:
Jeppe Rønde, Sebastian Winterø
Edited by:
Theis Schmidt
Music:
David Sebastian Buus, Jeppe Rønde
Producers:
Rasmus Thorsen, Anne Diemer
