Hot on the heels of their success with Applause, Mikael Christian Rieks, Martin Pieter Zandvliet, and Anders Frithiof August, the producer/director/screenwriter team that makes up Koncern Film (Denmark) has begun screening their next picture, A Funny Man. Set in the 1960s, the tale relates the experience of Dirch Passer, a comedian whose meteoric rise to fame brought the realization that it can be lonely at the top. The Danish language picture, which stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, was shown privately at Cannes and will open in Denmark in August 2011.
