Terribly Happy

Release Date: February 5th, 2010

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz

Writer: Henrik Ruben Genz, Dunja Gry Jensen

Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia, Lars Brygmann, Anders Hove, Jens Jørn Spottag, Henrik Lykkegaard

Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Due to a nervous breakdown, a Copenhagen policeman Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is temporarily transferred to a provincial hamlet of South Jutland. From the first sight the town looks like a peaceful and beauty spot, inhabited by law-abiding people. He succeeds to take a vacant position of marshal there and soon gets acquainted with a seductive but married woman, whom he enters into intimate relations with. Robert Hanson, who got used to work in city conditions, can’t though accept the regular life of a small town with its bizarre behavior and seeming respectability.

Faced with some local customs closely, he starts to suspect something peculiar in the reality he got into. It can’t be true but everything over the place looks too perfect. Finally Robert comes to a conclusion, that townspeople keep something sinister in their strict confidence.

This drama film is directed by Henrik Ruben Genz and based on the original novel by Erling Jepsen. The main idea, they tried to display, is how far people are ready to go in order to save their face and property. The film was awarded in nominations Best Director, Picture, Screenplay, Actor and Actress and won seven Danish Oscars.

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