--- title: 'Kira''s Reason: A Love Story (2001)' type: 'film' director: 'Ole Christian Madsen' released: '2001-01-01' runtime_minutes: 92 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Denmark' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kiras-reason-a-love-story-2001' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285280/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001) 2001 · 92 min · Drama · Denmark Original title: En kærlighedshistorie ## Synopsis Kira's Reason: A Love Story is a 2001 Danish drama directed by Ole Christian Madsen and written by Madsen and Mogens Rukov. The film stars Stine Stengade in a character study of a young mother who, released after two years in a psychiatric ward, struggles to hold her marriage, family and life intact. Filmed using the minimalist techniques of the Dogme 95 movement, Kira's Reason is also known as Dogme No. 21. Kira's Reason won both the Bodil and Robert Awards as the Best Danish Film of 2001. For her leading performance, Stengade received the Bodil and Robert awards for Best Actress. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ole Christian Madsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ole-christian-madsen) - **Screenplay:** [Ole Christian Madsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ole-christian-madsen), [Mogens Rukov](https://cinepixo.com/people/mogens-rukov) - **Producer:** [Morten Kaufmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/morten-kaufmann), [Bo Ehrhardt](https://cinepixo.com/people/bo-ehrhardt) - **Director of Photography:** [Jørgen Johansson](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-rgen-johansson) - **Editor:** [Søren B. Ebbe](https://cinepixo.com/people/s-ren-b-ebbe) ## Cast - [Klaus Pagh](https://cinepixo.com/people/klaus-pagh) - [Oliver Appelt Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/oliver-appelt-nielsen) - [Henrik Birch](https://cinepixo.com/people/henrik-birch) - [Søren Poppel](https://cinepixo.com/people/s-ren-poppel) - [Jesper Hyldegaard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesper-hyldegaard) - [Bent Kaiser](https://cinepixo.com/people/bent-kaiser) - [Sven Wollter](https://cinepixo.com/people/sven-wollter) - [Ronnie Hiort Lorenzen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronnie-hiort-lorenzen) - [Gerard Bidstrup](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-bidstrup) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/kiras-reason-a-love-story-2001 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1742410); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.