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It's all set for a traditional Danish New Year's Eve at Nomi's house. But not everything is as usual. The presence of Nomi's new boyfriend shakes up the traditions, and it soon becomes clear that it won't be a New Year's Eve like any other.
Her husband died at a New Year's party a few years ago and they haven't really talked about it. This will be the first time she's lifted the lid and talked about it, says Tuva Novotny, who plays Nomi.
Cement lumps
Slowly but surely, secrets are coming to light and truths are being told. It won't be the same as every year.
It will be a party where everything happens. It's a small part of a friendship that has been lovely and comfortable, but perhaps has been stuck in lumps of cement and traditions that need to be reviewed a bit, says Tuva Novotny.
She has lived in Copenhagen for 25 years and feels just as at home there as in Sweden. And now Tuva Novotny also got to play a Dane - director Paprika Steen thought her Danish was good enough that the character's accent wouldn't need to be explained.
Because it's not heard, but Danes are very concerned about being Danish, so there is probably always a step left to becoming fully Danish and accepted as Danish, says Novotny.
Migrant film
Tuva Novotny is also a director and hopes that her next film will be made in Denmark.
She wants to direct a drama about immigration policy, set in a return center where rejected migrants are placed while waiting to be deported. They can be families with small children, and they can stay there for a long time.
It has fascinated me incredibly that it is at all possible to create a life under those conditions.
Tuva Novotny has been working on her film for a long time and hopes to secure financing because it is so urgent. But she admits that the subject matter may not be commercially viable.
It's not that much fun to go to the cinema and watch, maybe. Nor is it one for a state-funded film consultant to spend money on. But Sweden is heading in the same direction and I'm dying to focus on the fact that this is not something we should see as exemplary.
"New Year's Eve" has its Swedish cinema premiere on April 17.
46 years old. She made a name for herself as a teenager in TV4's daytime soap opera "Skilda världar" in 1996 and has worked alternately in Sweden and Denmark for the past 25 years.
Selected film roles: "Tic Tac", "Yay! Yay!", "Slim Sussie", "The Wedding Photographer", "Happiness, Love and the Meaning of Life", "The War", "The King's Choice", "Castle", "The Abyss", "The Neighborhood Feud".
On television, she has appeared in the series: "Dag", "Bonusfamiljen", "Allt och Eva" and in films based on Maria Lang's detective stories.
As a director, she has made the films "Blind sport", "Britt-Marie was here" and "Diorama".
