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Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe
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The film is based on the novel The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff, and as such may duplicate some fictionalized or speculative content of the novel. However, director Tom Hooper has stated that the film is closer to the true story than Ebershoff's book.
- $64.2 million
- Alexandre Desplat
- $15 million
Nov 24, 2015 · Is The Danish Girl novel a good source of information on the true story? No. David Ebershoff's 2001 novel on which the movie is based is itself a work of fiction that is only loosely inspired by Lili Elbe's true story.
The film, based on a novel by David Ebershoff , is a fictionalised telling of the story of Lili Elbe, who was born Einar Wegener in Copenhagen in 1882, and was a highly regarded landscape painter ...
Nov 26, 2015 · Written for the screen by Lucinda Coxon and based on David Ebershoff’s novel of the same title, “The Danish Girl” is a fictionalized biography of Lili Elbe (as Einar Wegener came to be known),...
- Tom Hooper
- 4 min
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Sep 18, 2015 · The movie was directed by Tom Hooper ( Les Misérables, The King’s Speech ), and it follows the real-life transition of Lili Elbe, born as Einar Wegener in late–nineteenth century Denmark,...
Nov 27, 2015 · Maybe—in adapting Lucinda Coxon’s script, based on David Ebershoff’s novel about the 1920s Danish landscape painter—Hooper aims to reach the widest possible audience by presenting such potentially challenging material in the form of a lush prestige picture.
