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Steen Bille (writer)
Niels Arden Oplev (writer)
Release Date:
24 March 2006 (Denmark) more
Plot:
A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark. | add synopsis
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16 wins & 13 nominations more
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A rousing family film with its nose right on the money. more (5 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bent Mejding | ... | Lindum-Svendsen |
| Anders W. Berthelsen | ... | Freddie Svale |
| Jens Jørn Spottag | ... | Peder |
| Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis | ... | Stine |
| Peter Hesse Overgaard | ... | Erling |
| Sarah Juel Werner | ... | Iben |
| Janus Dissing Rathke | ... | Frits |
| Elin Reimer | ... | Grandmother |
| Gyrd Løfquist | ... | Grandfather |
| Lasse Borg | ... | Søren |
| Daniel Ørum | ... | Troels |
| Kurt Ravn | ... | Doctor |
| Steen Stig Lommer | ... | Teacher Olsen |
| Joy-Maria Frederiksen | ... | Iben's mum |
| Peter Schrøder | ... | Church Singer |
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Martin Luther King & mig (Denmark) (working title)
We Shall Overcome (International: English title)
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UK:109 min | Germany:105 min (Berlin International Film Festival)
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Anachronisms: When the parents are driving to the School Board hearing, they drive by a house with a large satellite dish on the side. more
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Referenced in Drømmen - en instruktørs rejse (2006) (TV) more
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Dark End of the Street more
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Insisting that Martin Luther King's inspirational spirit resides not just in American civil liberties but inside the hearts and minds of people everywhere, Danish helmer Niels Arden Oplev transplants this belief to a 1969 Danish middle school. More specifically, it works its way into the crusade of a young boy named Frits (Janus Dissing Rathke) against his oppressively rigid and churlishly abusive headmaster Svendsen (Bent Mejding). Adapted from a true story, the performances are executed with certain aplomb and a refreshing command over its varied characters keeps it involving. A battle of ideologies between a 13 year-old and a demented disciplinarian gives way to inherent humour but awkward shifts in mood disorients despite keeping it shrewdly cynical in the same vein as a "Dead Poets Society" more than a "Matilda". It treads a familiar path but a continued and precise service to its young protagonist including a personal subplot that rounds off Frits as a young boy becoming a young man, manages to raise the film into a rousing family film with its nose right on the money.