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The eagle
Dead man down.
I’ve always been drawn to creating fiction films that are based on real life. It feels more grounded than something totally made up. For decades, I considered writing a film about my older sister, Maren Elisabeth, who has suffered from schizophrenia for more than 40 years.
Speed walking
But I never started writing it, because I couldn’t ever find the right angle.
Maren Elisabeth was always a bright kid. She played the piano. If she was asked to write a three-page essay, she’d deliver 25 pages in elegant prose.
Teachers adored her. She was gifted. And maybe a bit naive, too. But then again, everyone was a bit naive in the ’70s.
When she was 18, Maren Elisabeth went to work for a year in France – first on a farm, and then in a restaurant.
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When she came back home, something had happened to her. She started talking to people who were not there, and she was hearing voices. My parents, of course, got very scared. At that time, the only psychiatrist in the rural part of Denmark where we lived diag