At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.
Acting
Frits Helmuth's Blomme: petty tyranny personified.
Writing
Structure that weaponizes nostalgia against itself.
Direction
Schrøder's surgical dismantling of Danish respectability.
Director
Peter Schrøder
Frits Helmuth
Lektor Blomme
Tomas Villum Jensen
Ellerstrøm (som ung)
Jesper Langberg
Ellerstrøm
Adam Simonsen
Mogensen (som ung)
Hugo Øster Bendtsen
Mogensen
René Benjamin Hansen
Thygesen (som ung)
Lars Lohmann
Thygesen
Ken Vedsegaard
Nielsen (som ung)
Stig Hoffmeyer
Nielsen
Bjørn Watt-Boolsen
Rektor
Hardy Rafn
Aben
Aksel Erhardtsen
Havmanden
Finn Nielsen
Ejby
Claus Bue
Langhave
Holger Munk
Musiklærer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Hans Scherfig's 1940 novel, a foundational Danish satire that helped define 'folkeskole' criticism.
The 25-year structure mirrors the novel's publication-to-film gap, making the 1990s cast literally embody generational distance.
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