Working alongside the Palme d’or winning director Bille August is the same team behind the successful film Silent Heart, writer Christian Torpe, producer Jesper Morthorst of Motor, and SF Studios Denmark. 

Based on Thorkild Bjønvig’s own eponymous biographical novel, published 12 years after Blixen’s death, The Pact focuses on the special bond that developed between the two artists ever since they met in 1948, when she was 63 and he was 30. At the time Bjønvig was a sensitive and easily influenced young poet with a wife and child, while the flamboyant author was well established and deeply fascinating. 

August who previously brought to the screens mismatched love stories in The Best Intentions (1991) and Marie Krøyer (2012), describes The Pact as a “relationship drama, the eternal story of seduction and wanting to be seduced, of the art of manipulation, of guilt and innocence, of a highly unusual friendship between two deeply talented people and a relationship that develops into a fateful bond." 

The film is also “a dramatic tale of a dangerous pact and of the unmanageable consequences of an inevitable dependency relationship. A thrilling connection between two of Denmark's greatest personalities,” says the director. 

The Pact is scheduled to open domestically in 2021. SF Studios handles world sales.

August’s Silent Heart based on Torpe’s screenplay, was remade into the English language film Blackbird starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska.