The Danish Girl is a movie directed by Tom Hooper in 2015 and based on the book of the same name by David Ebershoff, first published in 2000. The movie features Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
In mid-1920s Copenhagen, portrait artist Gerda Wegener asks her husband, popular landscape artist Einar Wegener, to stand in for a female model who is late coming to their flat to pose for a painting she’s working on. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.
Movie vs Book
Year
2015
Minutes
119
Movie Rate
7.10
Source: IMDb
Year
2000
Pages
310
Book Rate
7.52
S: Goodreads
Book
The Danish Girl
Author: David Ebershoff
Country: USA
First published in: 2000
Length: 310 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“Making the book into a television show makes it feel so much more real and so much more like a real rock documentary.”
TAYLOR JENKINS REID (Writer)
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