Karla met Jonas during a summer vacation at the lake. After being unable to stop thinking about him and their kiss she phones him, making up a school assignment about children living in an orphanage, which is precisely where Jonas lives.
Acting
Elena Arndt-Jensen's chaotic desperate-romantic energy is pitch-perfect.
Production
That sun-drenched Danish lake house you'll want to Google immediately.
Director
Charlotte Sachs Bostrup
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Renée Toft Simonsen's beloved Danish children's book series; this franchise basically raised a generation of Scandinavian millennials.
Director Charlotte Sachs Bostrup returned for multiple Karla sequels—rare for Danish family cinema to sustain a multi-film kid-led franchise.
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