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Mother at War (2020)
Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz
Overview
1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Trine Dyrholm | Ulrich Thomsen | Anders W. Berthelsen | Elias Munk | Ari Alexander | Sylvester Espersen Byder | Emil Aron Dorph | Mads Landelund | Aksel Ojari | Patrick Descamps | Jørn Holstein | Hugo Henry | David Dumont | Helle Bo | Gert Raudsep | Heino Seljamaa | Andreas Perschewski | Ingo Brosch | Anton Klink