Pan (1995 film)

Pan
Pan
Directed by	Henning Carlsen
Written by	Knut Hamsun (novel); Henning Carlsen (script)
Produced by	Axel Helgeland
Starring	Sofie Gråbøl, Lasse Kolsrud, Bjørn Sundquist, Anneke von der Lippe, Per Schaanning
Cinematography	Henning Kristiansen
Edited by	Anders Refn
Music by	Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Release date	22 September 1995;
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	Denmark, Norway, Germany
Languages	Danish and Norwegian

Pan (also released under the title Two Green Feathers) is a 1995 Danish/Norwegian/German film directed by the Danish director Henning Carlsen. It is based on Knut Hamsun's 1894 novel of the same name, and also incorporates the short story "Paper on Glahn's Death", which Hamsun had written and published earlier, but which was later appended to editions of the novel.^[1] It is the fourth and most recent film adaptation of the novel—the novel was previously adapted into motion pictures in 1922, 1937, and 1962.

Production

In 1966 Carlsen had directed an acclaimed version of Hamsun's Hunger. Thirty years later he returned to Hamsun to make Pan, a book he called "one big poem".^[2] The film was produced primarily with Norwegian resources, and classified as a Norwegian film; Carlsen later expressed his dissatisfaction with the film's promotion by the Norwegian Film Institute, saying that the Institute had preferred to promote films with Norwegian directors. Carlsen said that he had decided to incorporate the "forgotten" material from "Glahn's Death" in order to find a "new angle" for filming the book.^[1] The Glahn's Death portion was filmed in Thailand, standing in for the India location in the novel (the 1922 film version had placed this material in Algeria).^[3]

The film had its American premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of MOMA's 1995 retrospective of films based on Hamsun's work.^[2]