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The Experiment

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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...

Directed byLouise Friedberg

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 36m
Language
DA
Released
September 9, 2010
Studios
Nimbus Film

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Ellen Hillingsø

Ellen Hillingsø

Gert

Laura Bro

Laura Bro

Frk. Høgh

Kurt Ravn

Kurt Ravn

Inspektør Svendsen

Morten Grunwald

Morten Grunwald

Hr. Omann

Laura Skaarup Jensen

Karen

Mads Wille

Mads Wille

Niels

Finn Nielsen

Finn Nielsen

Jørgen Møller

Nukâka Coster-Waldau

Nukâka Coster-Waldau

Margrethe

Domilia Marianne Singertat

Marie

Paniaraq R. Søltoft

Ingrid

Creative team
Directed by
Louise Friedberg
Louise Friedberg
Written by
Louise Friedberg
Louise Friedberg
Rikke De Fine Licht
Rikke De Fine Licht

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