Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, for better and for worse, to Maria's coming of age. Based on Kirsten Thorup's critically acclaimed 1982 novel, filmed by Morten Arnfred.
Ole Lemmeke
Jonni
Karina Skands
Maria
Erik Mørk
Bols
Harriet Andersson
Jasmin
Waage Sandø
Moritzen
Peter Schrøder
Christian
Anne Marie Helger
Ekpeditrice
Vibeke Hastrup
Lillian
Nikolaj Steen
Herbert
Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, for better and for worse, to Maria's coming of age. Based on Kirsten Thorup's critically acclaimed 1982 novel, filmed by Morten Arnfred.
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