We are at Fiskeby Badehotel, owned by a charming young executive's daughter, Miss Søgaard. One day, when Miss Søgaard is on her way to inspect the hotel, she meets a young man on the road. One day, when Miss Søgaard is on her way to inspect the hotel, she meets a young man on the road. It is love at first sight. However, the young man turns out to be the doorman at her own hotel, where she now takes a job disguised as a bellboy. She wants to get to know the doorman better without him knowing who she is.
Costume
Bellboy drag transformation — she's serving looks AND bellhop realness.
Production
Fiskeby Badehotel as cozy coastal character — Denmark's answer to Grand Budapest.
Director
Bjarne Henning-Jensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Badehotel culture was peak Danish bourgeois leisure in the 1950s — this is basically coastal Downton Abbey for Scandinavia.
Real-life couple Bjarne and Astrid Henning-Jensen co-directed — rare for the era and possibly explains the film's surprisingly feminist undertones in Vibeke's agency.
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