A 40-year marriage is carefully delineated in WALTZING REGITZE, a subdued, bittersweet drama which takes place largely in the mind of Karl Age (Frits Helmuth), a somewhat stunned-looking old fellow at a dinner party being given by his wife Regitze (Ghita Norby).
All their friends are present, and a distracted Karl reminisces about his first, chance meeting with Regitze on the eve of WWII. Their subsequent life together unreels in a series of flashbacks, showing the couple coping with ostensibly mundane trials of life (whether to baptize the baby, an
unemployment crisis, pretentious friends, and so on), but a common theme links each episode: headstrong Regitze h...
Released:
1989
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins