Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
Acting
Trine Dyrholm's terrifying warmth—she makes evil feel like home.
Cinematography
Shadow-soaked 35mm that reeks of coal smoke and moral rot.
Direction
Von Horn's restraint: he never flinches, never sensationalizes.
Director
Magnus von Horn
Vic Carmen Sonne
Karoline
Trine Dyrholm
Dagmar
Besir Zeciri
Peter
Joachim Fjelstrup
Jørgen
Tessa Hoder
Frida
Ava Knox Martin
Erena
Ari Alexander
Svendsen
Søren Sætter-Lassen
Ring Master
Magnus von Horn
Frida's Husband
Anna Terpiłowska
Strict Woman
Dan Jakobsen
Dwarf
Anna Tulestedt
Old Landlady
Benedikte Hansen
Jørgen's Mother
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