Gertrud

The unhappily married Gertrud (Nina Pens Rode) leaves her husband, accusing him of excessive devotion to his career. She has an affair with a young musician, but her hopes for romance are dashed when she learns he has been bragging about their liaison. A poet from her past--their relationship having ended long ago because she hindered his creativity--reenters her life. But she admits to her platonic friend Axel (Axel Strobye) that she is depressed because she falls in love only with men who cannot give her the full attention she desires. She goes to Paris alone and is reunited 30 years later with Strobye. In the finale, an aged Gertrud reads him a love poem she wro...