A MODERN MAN

Charlie Siem has everything: a career as a classical violinist with sold-out concerts around the world and golden offers from the leading fashion houses, using him as a model in their international campaigns. On the surface it looks like the perfect life. But behind his photogenic looks, we meet a man who is trying to navigate his many options.

What is the definition of a good career? How do you become the best version of yourself? And how do you create a life that meets both the outside world’s as well as your own high conceptions of happiness and success? For Charlie, this is not easy. The demands are high when every detail counts and only the perfect is good enough.

The film is a portrait of a typical 21st century man. An existential journey into a world of expectations and choices. A story about us – the free and wealthy – who seem to have it all but are always on the hunt for more.

Eva Mulvad graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. Mulvad got her breakthrough with ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS (2006), which won IDFA Amsterdam’s Silver Wolf Award and the World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance. Her follow up documentary feature THE GOOD LIFE (2010) was selected for the feature-length Competition at IDFA and also selected for HotDocs, Tribeca and San Francisco Film Festivals. In 2011, THE GOOD LIFE was awarded “Best Documentary Film” at the Karlovy Vary festival.

She has since directed films such as THE SAMURAI CASE (2011), THE CASTLE (2014) as well as A MODERN MAN (2017), which was nominated for the NORDIC:DOX award at CPH:DOX and an IDA award. A CHERRY TALE (2019) premiered at CPH:DOX. In 2019 Mulvad directed LOVE CHILD, which was selected for Toronto Film Festival and won for best documentary at the Chicago international Filmfestival and got a special mention at DOC NYC. Mulvad won the 2006 WIFT (Women in Film and TV) award for young film talents as well as DFI’s documentary award, Roos Prisen, in 2011. She is the co-owner of the acclaimed production company Danish Documentary Production and since 2019 a member of the Oscar Academy.

Director
Eva Mulvad

Cinematography
Eva Mulvad
Sebastian Bäumler
Balthazar Hertel
Konrad Waldmann
Maggie Olkuska
Ryan Gatt

Editor
Adam Nielsen

Sound Design
Matz Müller

Producer
Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær
Sidsel Sierste
Stefan Kloos

Executive Producer
Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær PGA
Eva Mulvad
Mikala Krogh
Pernille Rose Grønkjær

Production Manager
Karin Trolle

Color Grading
Sandra Klass
Thorbjørn Münter

Production
Danish Documentary

Co-Production
Kloos & Co Medien
Bayrischer Rundfunk

Commissioning Editor BR/ARTE
Sonja Scheider
Monika Lobkowicz
Matthias Leybrand

Post Producer
Søren Green
Louise Bejerholm

Creative Consulting
Molly Marlene Steensgaard

Danish Film Institute
Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union
Nordisk Film & Tv Fond
DR K
VPRO
NRK
SVT
TVO
YLE
Against Gravity
Ceska Televize
Kouzi Production
LRT
TVP

World Premiere
CPH:DOX 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

Further Festivals (Selection)
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2017, USA
Bergen International Film Festival 2017, Norway
Message to Man 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lemesos International Documentary Festival 2017, Cyprus
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017, UK
Oslo Pix 2017, Norway
Sydney Film Festival 2017, Australia
DOK.fest München Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival 2017, Germany

Stream online here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/138731