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Sønnen

1953

A gentle, modest small-town drama about ordinary people and family hopes, told with warmth and quiet everyday feeling.

Directed by
Torben Anton Svendsen
Genres
Family
Starring
Ib Schønberg, Frits Helmuth, Gunnar Lauring
Overview
This is a film about how an ordinary man, a restaurateur in a small Danish town and owner of Café Håbet, has his happiness shattered one morning. Restaurateur Christian Christiansen has just prepared for his big trip to visit his only son, who wants to build a house, and now he has to help with a loan, which he can afford. He has saved every penny, and now his son is well on his way and is going to build, not a poor house with a cardboard roof and cheap materials, no, a proper brick villa with red bricks and tiles.

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Directed by
Torben Anton Svendsen
Genres
Family
Starring
Ib Schønberg, Frits Helmuth, Gunnar Lauring
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • family
    • parenthood
    • class
    Places
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    family
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness3
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight5

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    Genres
    family
    Directed by
    Torben Anton Svendsen
    Written by
    Leck Fischer
    Starring
    Ib Schønberg, Frits Helmuth, Gunnar Lauring, Lise Wolst, Kate Mundt, Karin Nellemose, Inge Hvid-Møller
    Country
    Denmark
    Languages
    Danish

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