She wrote a scandalous novel at 19 and Denmark lost its mind.
A dramatized account of Denmark's first women's rights activist, Mathilde Fibiger. Based on letters and diaries, it depicts her life and views from the 1850s, when she published the controversial epistolary novel Clara Raphael, until 1872, when she died at the age of only 41.
Acting
Anne Birch embodies Mathilde's fire and fragility.
Writing
Letters and diaries brought to life with painful intimacy.
Production
1850s Denmark feels suffocatingly real, not costume-pretty.
Director
Hans Engberg
Anne Birch
Mathilde Fibiger
Birthe Neumann
Anna Fibiger
John Hahn-Petersen
Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Karen Margrethe Bjerre
Johanne Louise Heiberg
Jess Ingerslev
M.A. Goldschmidt
Martin Hansen
C.E. Fenger
Peter Schrøder
Frederik Dreier
Henning Palner
Frederik Bajer
Merete Arnstrøm
Mathilde Bajer
Paul Hüttel
Præst
Ulla Lock
Præstens kone
Bertel Lauring
Skovrider Quist
Lone Helmer
Madam Quist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clara Raphael (1850) was Denmark's first feminist novel and caused an actual government inquiry. Mathilde was 19.
Director Hans Engberg was primarily a documentarian—this rare drama was his passion project to rescue Fibiger from obscurity.
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