MADS MIKKELSEN

September 3, 2023

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VENICE DISPATCH 2
Photographs by GREG WILLIAMS


Mads Mikkelsen before the premier of his new movie The Promised Land at the Venice Film Festival on Friday.

Playing in competition in Venice, Nikolaj Arcel’s film portrays Mikkelsen as Capitain Ludvig Kahlen who in 1755 sets out to build a colony in the uninhabitable heath of Jutland following the Kings call to cultivate the land.

Arcel and Mikkelsen have previously collaborated on the Oscar nominated A Royal Affair. The Promised Land will be released 5 October, 2023.

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Mads Mikkelsen wears watch by Chopard, suit by Zegna.

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