Noted actress Liv Ullmann stepped behind the camera for this film, an exceptional if demanding, decades-spanning portrait of a Danish woman struggling to live her own life instead of fulfilling the expectations of others.
The movie begins in 1886, in Copenhagen, when at age 29 the sensual and imaginative Sofie (Karen-Lise Mynster) realizes that she is almost beyond marriageable age. She is devoted to her parents, Semmy (Erland Josephson), a middle-class Jewish businessman, and Frederikke (Ghita Norby); Semmy's
wealthy brother Frederik (Henning Moritzen); and her near-dotty spinster aunts (Lotte Herman, Elin Reimer, Lone Herman). For the first time in her caref...
Released:
1992
Rated:
NR
Length:
152 mins