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
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.