Release, runtime and language

1999 · 95 mins · Danish

Directed by

Hans Kristensen

Starring

Anne Louise Hassing, Bodil Jørgensen, Krister Henriksson, Birthe Neumann, Allan Olsen, Lise Schrøder

Set in Copenhagen’s tenements of the 1880s, the film follows Juliane, trapped in an unhappy marriage to an intermittently insane husband and raising two children. Determined to rise above her sisters’ status, she meets Otto, a younger socialist smith. Their instant attraction ignites a passionate, equal‑will partnership that challenges her fate.