Elena and I share a deep love of foreign films. She is quite good at fishing out great films from the most obscure places. She found a Danish film set in the early 1900s. She liked it so much that she invested almost three hours of her life watching the film. The film has the title "A Fortunate Man." The film can be found on Netflix. Here is the IMDB link if you are curious:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8436026/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
I am watching the film as I write this
Op-Ed. One of the greatest compliments that one can pay to a film is "Oh
my gosh that's what it's really like!" This film had meticulous research.
Every tiny detail is correct. It makes one feel as if they have gotten into a
time machine and gone back some 120 years. The writing, cinematography, and
acting are superb. The story line concerns a poor man from the countryside who
goes to Copenhagen to make his fortune. This man is both brave and resourceful.
He starts to interact with a very wealthy and sophisticated Jewish family. I
feel sad because I know what this family faced when the Nazis invaded Denmark
on 9 April 1940. The Danish people organized an evacuation of the Jewish
population of 7,220 and 686 non-Jewish people to Sweden.
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