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The boy has suffered a stroke, leaving one entire side of his body paralyzed. Dr. Malmros (Jens Albinus) is one of the best men in the whole of neurosurgery, and his exceptionally steady hands make him a prime candidate to operate on children. Working quickly and efficiently, he injects the boy with a chemical called a contrast medium to help photograph the blood vessels in his brain, locates the injured blood vessel, and ties it off. Yet another life saved. Except that decades later, the same boy will die of liver cancer—caused, ironically enough, by the same radio-emitter chemical used to save his life.

This is the dilemma that is set up in the first few minutes of Facing the Truth, a powerful and moving story taken from the real life of a doctor who garnered great fame in Denmark, but fell out of favor for intensely personal reasons. It is not exclusively about the medical controversy, although that forms a big part of the story’s arena, but is really about the weather of a man’s spirit, and how he deals with hardships that come in spite of him being a good man and a skilled doctor. The film was directed by Nils Malmros, the real-life son of the real-life Dr. Malmros, and there isn’t a moment in it that feels inauthentic or forced.

Truth starts with the above event, in 1943, and skips forward decades to when Malmros’s son, now an adult, discovers that his father is obsessively reviewing all of the cases he treated where the contrast medium was used. He feels responsible, and cannot divorce himself from everything that has happened—no, not even when he was saving lives in the process. He has become the target of an investigation by the country’s medical board, and even when they give his work a clean bill of health, so to speak, a medical journalist becomes suspicious and begins to dig up dirt on both him and his cronies.

The whole affair causes Malmros to do something with his son that he hasn’t ever done, no thanks to him being absorbed in his work during the younger man’s entire childhood. He begins to tell him of his own life—his youth during WWI, in Denmark, where his family was ostracized for being poor. The poverty they struggled with was not cut-and-dried, though, and even at that age the doctor-to-be could see what was wrong. His father, a dockworker, was forbidden from working because of the naval blockade, an d his mother was forced to take in laundry and seamstress work to make ends meet. The father prefer red to drink and hoard his misery. When the boy’s schoolteacher quietly informs them that their son is a prodigy and should be moved into something better than public education, his father’s response is so indifferent and hurtful that the audience feels its sting as much as the boy himself does.

But somehow he triumphs over that, and moves on to other struggles. His aunt has plenty of money to spare, and withholds it out of some perverse sense of not lavishing charity on those who do not fear God properly. He manages to convince her to finance his medical education, and silently bears up the humiliation of having him betray her and leave him deep in debt. He finds himself the object of affection by a warm, motherly woman, and reciprocates it almost without quite knowing why or how. He tries to do pioneering work in his field, and winds up getting into neurosurgery almost by accident, where he learns he has a natural aptitude.

And then other complications arise, like a clash of wills between him and a colleague, Riber. When Malmros leaves for America for a time, Riber continues working in his stead, and accomplishes things that Malmros feels are embarrassing to his senior position. Or is it that simple? The movie shows us that none of the conflicts we see exist on any one level. Unlike other movies, this isn’t a case of mere ego, with the other guy painted as a dummy or a monster; they’re both shown to have valid reasons for reacting as they do to each other’s behavior.

Most movies about social issues, like the lamentable Erin Brockovitch, are content to only show one side of things. There are no villains in this film, simply people who have sharply contrasting points of view borne from their experience. Late in the movie, we see that the journalist digging up damaging hidden evidence is deprived of knowing a critical part of the truth when Malmros declines to be interviewed by him. Why? Because Malmros is not convinced that anyone except him has the patient’s best interest at heart; because he is only too certain that his words will be twisted and used against him. The journalist is only too happy to bask in the limelight of a national award while Malmros nurses his bitterness in private. Who is right? The movie wisely does not say, because this is not a case of right vs. wrong. It is more complex than that, complex in the way good fiction makes its case rather than the typical simpleminded formulas of movies.

Truth earned several major awards in its native Denmark, and it’s not hard to see why: it’s one of the wisest and most compelling movies I’ve seen in a long time. It is also beautifully mounted, with razor-sharp black-and-white wide-gauge photography that keeps our attention on the characters at all times. The performances are also uniformly outstanding, and there’s a very good sense of continuity in Malmros’s lifetime through all three actors who play him. Nils Malmros, himself a surgeon, filmed several real-life brain surgeries to bring an additional level of realism—although he wisely keeps those scenes from being too graphic, thanks to the black-and-white photography. In fact, at one point he plays explicitly on this very issue: he has a Nazi collaborator thug peer a little too closely at a surgery in progress and faint dead away when he realizes he’s looking at the inside of so meone’s head.

The beauty of a film like this is how it is able to show the doctor as being a flawed man, but not a bad man, and therefore all the more compelling. One of the components of tragedy is that we are able to feel something in common with the tragic hero, and with Malmros, it’s not hard to find something in our own life that parallels his. For all his work, for all his genius, for all his accomplishments, he has nothing to show for it but guilt, debt, and the recrimination of the world. Why? Not because he was bad, and certainly not because he stood his ground on issues that he felt strongly about, but because he believed that just taking his stand would be message enough to the world around him. It is one thing to be punished for being evil, and another thing entirely to be punished for being the wrong kind of good.

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A bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a three-year-period, focusing on the relationship between Jonas and Agnete, which is made difficult by misconceptions, Agnete’s interest for philosophy and Jonas’s friend Toke, her father’s mental illness and Jonas’s own indecision regarding his feelings for her. The story ends when the protagonists finish school.

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In Kærlighedens Smerte (Pain of Love) by the Danish veteran director Nils Malmros we follow the life of a young woman with a childish innocence and great impulsiveness called Kirsten. Kirsten grows up in a middle class home with sympathetic bourgeois parents. We watch Kirsten as she experiences her first innocent relationship with a rather immature boy, as she starts to lust after and date older men, as she experiences failures, as she breaks down mentally, …

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Boys (Drenge) is Nils Malmros’ first movie made in collaboration with a professional film crew. Even so, the movie has a very mature feel to it and the feeling of authenticity from Malmros’ earlier film “Lars Ole, 5C” remains. Boys is, together with “Lars Ole, 5C” and “Tree of Knowledge” part of Malmros’ “Ole”-triology.

Boys is split into three parts that all center around the young Ole. All parts deal with the coming-of-age of Ole and his sexual development. The first part shows episodes from Ole’s childhood, the second from his youth and the third from his early manhood.

Boys received the 1977 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film.

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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
In the Danish film Lars Ole, 5c the “5c” refers to the boy Lars’ school class form. The film consists of many little moments from the school life of a young man, including such occasions as a skirmish among the teens for teacherly favors or for attention from a member of the opposite sex. This independently produced film was highly praised in its native Denmark and was an official entry in the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.

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When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together – and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her “growing up.”

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A modified review by Roger Ebert

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“The Tree of Knowledge” is the truest and most moving film I have ever seen about the experience of puberty, about the little joys and great heartbreaks of the crucial first years of adolescence. It is also one of this year’s best films on any subject – a creative act of memory about exactly what it was like to be 13 in 1953.

The movie comes from Denmark, and yet it didn’t feel “foreign” to me. At first I was aware that I was watching a Danish picture, and then the universal insights of the story began to reach me so directly that I was just watching a movie about kids anywhere – it could have been made about an American suburb.

That reminded me of the observation by Francois Truffaut (whose own “Small Change” is another of the great films about childhood) that American and European kids are about the same until their later teen years. Only then do cultural and political considerations begin to outweigh the universal language and experience of puberty.

It’s really something. It was shot over a period of two years, so we observe these Danish teenagers as they grow up physically. And the movie is acutely sensitive to their psychic growing pains. The writer and director, Nils Malmros follows a schoolroom full of bright kids through two school years observing them in classrooms, at home, in school activities, and in weekend parties where they fumble their way into adolescence.

The movie remembers school vividly. We watch a geometry theorem being proved on a blackboard, a spitball fight breaking up a slide show, chorus practice, and a P.E. class. But what really comes alive in this movie is the painful process by which children become acutely aware of their sexual roles. One of the girls in the class develops a little more quickly than the others, and her breasts represent a threat that the others react to by making fun of her. Sides are chosen and cliques are formed, and the question of who is invited to whose party becomes a big deal.

Meanwhile, other couples are forming and dissolving, as these kids get crushes on the opposite sex and form intense friendships with their own sex. The movie remembers everything: The whispers, the giggles, and heartbreaking moments when parents simply do not understand. The most painful moment in the film comes when Elin, the outsider, is given a silver dollar by a boy a year older, whose father has taken a job in America. The dollar is a token of friendship and she treasures it, but her parents order her to send it back, and her mother asks the unforgivable question, “What did you do to get it?”

The movie’s performances are unaffected, spontaneous and cheerful; I may have made the movie sound depressing, but it isn’t, really – not any more depressing than being 14 and not being invited to any parties.

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