The year is 1918. The Great War is raging through Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary, tranquil life at home in Bramstrup where she lives with her simple-minded son, Kalle.
That is until the day when everything changes as the village constable Meier shows up to conscript Kalle for military service for the German Empire of which Southern Jutland, at this time, is a part.
Ever since Kalle’s dramatic birth, Erna has promised the Lord that no one should ever be allowed to touch so much as a single hair on the boy’s head and now she has to hand ...
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Production Firm(s) | Nimbus Film (Denmark) |
Film Category | Feature film, Full length feature |
Genre | Drama, War |
Text / Dialogue | Danish, German |
Duration | 105:00 |
Executive Producer | Brigitte Hald | Bo Ehrhardt |
Producer | Brigitte Hald | Nynne Selin Eidnes |
Co-producer | Esko Rips | Sebastien Delloye |
Director | Henrik Ruben Genz |
Screenwriter | Bo Hr. Hansen |
Cinematographer | Jorgen Johansson |
Production Desinger | Jette Lehmann |
Costume Designer | Pille Küngas |
Composer | Mihkel Zilmer |
Sound Designer | Yves Bemelmans | Emmanuel de Boissieu |
Editor | Anders Skov |