Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father.
Acting
Allan Olsen's raw, wounded Charly steals every scene.
Cinematography
Bleak Danish landscapes that mirror emotional isolation.
Writing
Awkward mother-son boundaries handled with surprising honesty.
Director
Henning Kristiansen
Allan Olsen
Charly
Ghita Nørby
Helle, Steffens mor
Jens Okking
Auto-Gunnar, Majbritts far
Else Højgaard
Majbritts farmor
Erno Müller
Forstander på ungdomshjem
Per Pallesen
Hans, lærer på ungdomshjem
Ole Larsen
Gammel mand
Karl Stegger
Grillbar-indehaver
Otto Brandenburg
Journalist
Erik Clausen
Gøgler
Leif Sylvester
Gøgler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Denmark's 1970s 'social realist' wave, influenced by British kitchen-sink dramas but with Nordic restraint.
Director Morten Arnfred later created the hit series 'The Killing' — this was his gritty training ground.
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