LevelK Lures Buyers With Tallinn-Selected Danish Coming-of-Age ’Pretty Young Love’ by ’’Ragnarok’ Helmer Mogens Hagedorn

Copenhagen-based sales banner LevelK has closed a raft of sales on the Danish coming-of-age ”Pretty Young Love,” set to compete at the upcoming Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival’s Just Film program for kids and youth.

The pic, helmed by Mogens Hagedorn – credited for the Netflix hits “Ragnarok,” and” Borgen” – has been acquired by Splendid Film for Germany, Encripta for Latin America, and Husky Films for South Korea, with more deals pending.

Produced by SF Studios, the pic was co-financed by TV2 Denmark and Netflix that “secured the rights upfront, to show the film – at a later time –  before other streamers and TV stations,” seasoned producer Marcella Dichmann (“Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction,” “Loving Adults”) told Variety.

A sequel to 2022 hit “Pretty Young Thing,” “Pretty Young Love” is set again in the Rosenholm high school, where the young Selma is about to start her second year. On the last night of summer, she meets Johan, a charming but slightly older guy, who turns out to be her new music teacher.

Reprising her role as Selma is Karoline Hamm (“Loving Adults,””Carmen Curlers”), while her love interest Johan is played by Tue Lunding (“A Copenhagen Love Story”), and her friend Jasmin by Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, the youngest actor ever to scoop the best lead performance award at San Sebastian, in 2021 for “As in Heaven.”

‘Pretty Young Love’ is a film that holds deep personal meaning for me,” Hagedon said. “On the surface, it’s a story about forbidden love, but beneath that love story, it’s a tribute to the powerful volcano of resonance that our inner voice can be, if only we are quiet enough to hear it and brave enough to follow it. In creating the film, I tried to follow my own inner voice, so now that it has been selected for competition at the Tallinn festival and has touched hearts across borders and cultures, I feel both immensely proud and deeply humbled at the same time.”

“’Pretty Young Love’ is one of nine features selected for the Youth Film strand of Tallinn’s Just Film kids and youth sub-festival due to run Nov. 7-23 in the Estonian capital. Read the Variety exclusive here.