BigList
Login / Sign up
The Experiment (2010)

The Experiment (2010)

Drama Thriller
Release Date: 2010, September 9
Directors: Louise Friedberg
Countries: Denmark
Production: Nimbus Film
Cast: Finn Nielsen, Kurt Ravn, Laura Bro, Morten Grunwald, Ellen Hillingsø, Mads Wille, Laura Skaarup Jensen, Nukâka Coster-Waldau, Domilia Marianne Singertat, Paniaraq R. Søltoft, Najaaraq Margit Davidsen, Kristian Falck-Petersen

Overview:

THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...

Keywords:

greenland colonisation children's home denmark fyn