Falling

Falling (2020)

Timing: 1:52 (112 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2020-10-02

Country

Canada, United Kingdom

Production

Ingenious Media, HanWay Films, Scythia Films, Zephyr Films, Perceval Pictures

Genre

Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$974 782

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Director

Viggo Mortensen

Actors

Lance Henriksen, Viggo Mortensen, Terry Chen, Sverrir Gudnason, Hannah Gross, Laura Linney, Carina Battrick, Ava Kozelj, Gabby Velis, Bracken Burns
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Scenario

Viggo Mortensen

Producer

Viggo Mortensen, Chris Curling, Daniel Bekerman, Peter Hampden, Norman Merry, Brian Hayes Currie, Philip Waley, Ethan Lazar, Peter Touche, Stephen Dailey

Operator

Marcel Zyskind

Composer

Viggo Mortensen

Artist

Audition

Deirdre Bowen

Editing

Ronald Sanders
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• Viggo Mortensen dedicated the film to his brothers Charles and Walter.
• Both of Viggo Mortensen's parents suffered from dementia.
• The film had a very limited budget. Viggo Mortensen (who was the director, screenwriter, composer, and performer of one of the roles) not only worked on the film without a fee but also used his own finances.
• Viggo Mortensen cast his own son, Henry Mortensen, in a small role. To better match the image of a 1977 police officer, he even got a haircut and grew a goatee.
• Viggo Mortensen filmed the scenes with the dead duck and snake based on memories from his own childhood.
• Lance Henriksen did not know that one of his co-stars would be David Cronenberg. He realized this only some time later, when he watched a conversation between Cronenberg and Mortensen on YouTube.
• The horse trainer working with the horse was not sure he could convince the horse to lick Lance Henriksen's face. Viggo Mortensen convinced him that it was possible. The horse licked him on the face on command during the filming of Peter Jackson’s adventure film “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (2002).
• According to Viggo Mortensen, during the filming of the scene with David Cronenberg in the doctor's office, Cronenberg constantly moved his gloved hand towards the lens. Mortensen asked if Cronenberg understood that this made his hand look unnaturally large, to which Cronenberg – the famous horror film director – replied that, of course, he did.
• According to the conditions set for him, Viggo Mortensen was forced to take on many roles of Canadians or Europeans. He himself, as well as his son Henry Mortensen, used Danish citizenship when concluding contracts.