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Copenhagen 1919: A young factory worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an adoption agency. A strong connection grows, but her world is shaken when she discovers the shocking truth behind her work. Denmark’s official entry for the ‘Best International Feature Film’ category at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. It’s the final days of the Great War, and Karoline is barely making ends meet at the factory. She believes she’s a widow, as her husband disappeared during the war (even though Denmark didn’t actually participate), but she doesn’t receive widow’s benefits because he’s not listed as dead. A lot happens during the film. and I don’t want to go into spoilers, so I won’t go into much more detail than the marketing highlights something that isn’t as important in the film as one might expect. While it does get a lot of attention in the second half of the film, for me the real value of the film is the sense of reality surrounding Karolina’s story. When was the last time someone in a film tried to convince a potential tenant to take an apartment by telling them they could have running water for two full hours a day (from 10am to noon, which might not be much of a selling point, since most people would be working during those hours)? When was the rampant drug use of that era depicted so honestly? Even what Dagmar does was fairly common in the past, although I would hazard a guess that the trend was on the decline at this point and it didn’t happen as often as it used to. I actually enjoyed the film more if the marketing had been different and Dagmar hadn’t been brought up to create expectations. While Dagmar is the main character, the film is clearly about Karolina and her struggles. On the other hand, it’s hard to say how I would have felt when I saw the name Dagmar Overby on the door if I hadn’t known beforehand that this real person was used in the film. (It should be noted that the film is inspired by real-life events rather than based on them, so they try to maintain some distance from the real Dagmar). I have a feeling that some of the audience will find it hard to sympathize with Karoline. , as she sometimes seems to make the right decision a little too late. At the same time, there’s not much time or opportunity for ethics when you’re just trying to survive in a world where the odds are stacked against you. On the other hand, even though we know that the hope she gets would be useless in this world, we still understand why she gives it to him. I like the look of the film. It’s black and white, and the entire city seems rundown and barely holding up. It reminds us of the lack of concern for, or even contempt for, the working poor. Have things really changed that much? The time depicted happened over a century ago, but the concept of female bodily autonomy is once again under constant attack. Of course, all art is in some way a mirror of the era in which it was created, but it seems easier to see the similarities here.