1943 Denmark's most scandalous love triangle — with abortion laws as the real villain.
After three long years, the young legal secretary Bodil is reunited with his former girlfriend Carsten. Their love affair flares up again, but unfortunately Bodil has meanwhile come a little too close to his boss' son, the skirt hunter Hugo. And he has no intention of making Bodil happy.
Direction
O'Fredericks navigates censorship with devastating restraint.
Acting
Holmer's desperation reads through every polite smile.
Director
Alice O'Fredericks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Nazi occupation, the film's abortion themes were politically explosive — Danish authorities nearly banned it for 'moral corruption.'
O'Fredericks, Denmark's most prolific female director, used melodrama to smuggle feminist critique past censors who missed the subversion in 'women's stories.'
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