The Girl with the Needle
Pigen med nålen
2024
Synopsis
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
Editorial
A profound search for tenderness and morality under fraught circumstances, Magnus von Horn’s masterful vision of early 20th-century Denmark brims with exquisite empathy and complexity. Drawing on chilling true events that continue to resonate, this gothic tale is a visceral reckoning from the past.
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