Andre and his girlfriend Elisa are in love, full of hope, got a new place and just found out she’s pregnant! Everything seems perfect, except little things start going wrong and soon Andre is questioning his sanity, the pregnancy and his girlfriend. When her overprotective mother arrives, Andre...
Rasmus defends his Ph.D in Danish literature entitled "The Romantic Idiot", but with his special qualifications there are not many jobs around. To reduce his study loan he settles for a temporary teaching job at an adult education programme in the provincial town of Korsør. Here, Rasmus meets a...
In the old days, things were different. Art, too. It assembled and passed on human experience and knowledge. But in today's Denmark, something else is wanted from art. It has to experiment and break new ground. It is almost a political requirement. The more conventional the politics, the harsher...
In order to preserve the family farm Hamre, Bente follows her dying father's wishes and marries the brutal landowner's son Gorm. He hunts the young girls on the farm and succumbs to the evil and scheming influence of the marksman Grove. The unhappy marriage turns into a veritable power struggle...
Ten-year-old Emil lives with his dad in an apartment in Taastrup. Following the death of Emil's mother, his father struggles with the role of single parent. In an effort to deal with this lack of fatherly attention and authority, Emil has come up with a set of strange rules and secret projects.
Eleven-year-old George is the new kid in the Apple Orchard housing complex. He and the other kids are terrorized by JB, the tyrannical superintendent. George starts out as an outsider, until he discovers he has a talent for leadership. Eventually, the other kids follow George in dreaming up a...
The story of Clärenore Stinnes, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in a car. In 1927, she started her expedition together with two technicians and the Swedish cameraman Carl-Axel Söderström. The team has 48,000 kilometers ahead of them. From the very beginning, the daring...
Friends Bobby and Junes have been hustling around Nørrebro for several years. Junes was once a talented boxer, but a violent crime conviction put an end to his promising career, and now he drifts around with no direction other than getting through the day and keeping his "business" going. Bobby,...
It's a roller coaste coming-of-age story. Focus is on the three kids thrown into extraordinary circumstances, which brings out best and worst in their relationship to themselves, each other, death and having to be/become an adult. Mum's corpse only appears briefly in the first episode, and the...
Window cleaner Bent A. Pedersen, with his indomitable spirit, lives with his friend Sigfred because he can't stand his neurotic wife and disabled son. When a boy accidentally smashes the side mirror of his new car, Bent follows him to get his father to pay for the damage. A pretty but fragile...
