The Sea

Cast: Jarck Benschop, David Dorfman, Rolf Engström, Lars Eskilsson, Bengt Hesselberg, Henrik Krogh, Mikael Larsson, Olof Nellgård, Lars Osterman, Lasse Pettersson, Douglas Rosenberg, Lasse Siggelin, Björn Thudén, Benno Voorham, Paul Wu
Producer: Andreas Nordblom
Director: Douglas Rosenberg
Director of photography: Paul Wu
Sound engineer: Björn van Weiden
Choreography: Benno Voorham, David Dorfman, Douglas Rosenberg and The Performers
Sound mixing: Björn van Weiden
Editor: Paul Wu
Grade: Jessica Lindgren-Wu
Production Coordinator: Elsa Nilsson
Runner: Viktor Klintbom
Craft: Yu-Syuan Tsai
Still Photographer: Jessica Lindgren-Wu
Storyboard artist: Kate Forer
Production company: Hjärta Nikki
The Sea/Havet was written by Douglas Rosenberg, translated by Karin Brygger and performed by Björn Thudén
Uti vår hage performed by Björn Thudén
Original music created by: David Dorfman (accordion); Mikael Larsson (bagpipe);
Additional music: ”Veil”, Composed by Philip Jeck; “Heimkehr”, Composed by Harald Weiss and performed by the Nornoss Quartet; Used with permission
The director wishes to thank Paul Wu, Andreas Nordblom, Benno Voorham, David Dorfman
Thanks to: Film på Gotland, Tor Karlsson, Inger Söderdahl, Marcus Grufstedt, Richard Mattson, Lasse Weinebrandt, Lotta Bogren & Kafé Smultronstället, Jamie and Jennie Rae & Kajp Catering, Cristina Bernhardsson Ribeiro & Bergmancenter Fårö

The Sea , is a 60 minute black and white film conceived and directed by Douglas Rosenberg Filmed completely on location at the edge of the Baltic Sea. The Sea was shot in the footsteps of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in a landscape that inspired the project on the island of Fårö, an extraordinary place that was Bergman’s home as well as the place in which he shot some of his most important and compelling films.

The Sea explores the nature of aging and the relationship of men of his age to the landscape, to solitude and to community with a cast of largely untrained performers who come from the areas surrounding the island of Fårö.