Before tipsters and electronic lottery games, you could turn to centrally located citizens who sold lottery tickets. One such person is Peter Blomberg, and with him, butcher Lund and his wife won a quarter of a million Danish kroner! In 1936, that was so much money that you could throw it all around and radically change your lifestyle. And Mr. and Mrs. Lund do so in the most festive way... and Blomberg should also have a piece of the cake...
Acting
Pouel Kern's butcher-to-bigshot transformation is delicious.
Production
Rare surviving example of 1930s Danish populist comedy.
Director
George Schnéevoigt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Danish state lottery was massive cultural phenomenon; films like this both mocked and fed working-class fantasies of escape.
Director Schnéevoigt had just returned from Hollywood and tried importing American screwball pacing to staid Danish cinema.
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