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We Shall Overcome (film)
2006 Danish film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Drømmen (Danish "The Dream", English: We Shall Overcome) is a 2006 Danish film based on a true story about a young boy's crusade against a dictatorial headmaster of the "old school", in 1969 Denmark.
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The film is directed by Danish screenwriter and film director Niels Arden Oplev and stars Bent Mejding and Anders W. Berthelsen.[citation needed] It won sixteen awards in 2006 and 2007.
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Synopsis
The story opens in the Danish countryside of 1969.[1] Denmark and the rest of the world are changing rapidly but Lindum-Svendsen, the headmaster of the rural school, hasn't noticed.
Frits is a young boy who spends his summer holidays watching the family's first television, and is influenced by the American civil rights movement.[2] The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968, coupled with his own dreams of a better life, have given Frits courage and a desire for rebellion.[3] The dictatorial Lindum-Svendsen steps over the line while punishing Frits, drawing the ire of youthful new teacher Freddie Svale, which encourages Frits to take up battle against the headmaster.[4]
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Cast
- Bent Mejding as headmaster Lindum-Svendsen
- Janus Dissing Rathke as Frits Johansen
- Anders W. Berthelsen as Freddie Svale
- Jens Jørn Spottag as Peder, Frits' father
- Peter Hesse Overgaard as Erling
- Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis as Stine, Frits' mother
- Gyrd Løfqvist as Frits' grandfather
- Elin Reimer as Frits' grandmother
- Steen Stig Lommer as teacher Olsen
- Kurt Ravn as school doctor
- Peter Schrøder as sexton
- Sarah Juel Werner as Iben
- Daniel Ørum as Troels
- Lasse Borg as Søren
- Joy-Maria Frederiksen as Iben's mother
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The film has won sixteen awards in 2006 and 2007.[citation needed]
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