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Original name: Pigen med nålen
English name: The Girl with the Needle
Year: 2024
Run time: 115 minutes
Language: Danish
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Black & White
Country: Denmark, Poland, Sweden
Director: Magnus von Horn
Producer: Malene Blenkov, Mariusz Wlodarski
Cast: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm
Screenplay: Magnus von Horn, Line Langebek Knudsen
Cinematographer: Michal Dymek
Editor: Agnieszka Glinska
Sound Designer: Oskar Skriver
Costume Designer: Małgorzata Fudala
Production Designer: Jagna Dobesz
Production Company: Nordisk Film Production A/S
World Sales: MUBI
Magnus Von Horn (1983, Sweden) graduated from the prestigious Polish film school in Lodz. The subject of his first film, the short documentary Radek (2007), was prompted by a violent robbery in which Von Horn was victimised shortly after his arrival in Poland. Aggression and juvenile delinquency are also central themes in his short films Echo (2008) and Without Snow (2011). In 2015 he made his feature debut, The Here After. Von Horn took part in the Torino Film Lab with his character-driven feature, Sweat (2020).
Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post WW1 Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escape poverty, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, yet Karoline’s world shatters as she stumbles upon the dreadful revelation of the nightmarish fate she unknowingly embraces.
