The Experiment Backdrop Blur
The Experiment Poster
4.2 1h 36m

The Experiment

THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...

Top Cast

  • Ellen Hillingsø

    Ellen Hillingsø

    Gert

  • Laura Bro

    Laura Bro

    Frk. Høgh

  • Kurt Ravn

    Kurt Ravn

    Inspektør Svendsen

  • Morten Grunwald

    Morten Grunwald

    Hr. Omann

  • Laura Skaarup Jensen

    Laura Skaarup Jensen

    Karen

  • Mads Wille

    Mads Wille

    Niels

  • Finn Nielsen

    Finn Nielsen

    Jørgen Møller

  • Nukâka Coster-Waldau

    Nukâka Coster-Waldau

    Margrethe

  • Domilia Marianne Singertat

    Domilia Marianne Singertat

    Marie

Overview

THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...

Rating

4.2 / 10
11 Reviews
0 Popular

Recommendations

Die My Love

After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.

Die My Love

6.1 2025