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A Fortunate Man (Danish: Lykke-Per) is a 2018 Danish drama film directed by Bille August. In August 2018, it was one of three films shortlisted to be the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
A young man breaks free from his devoutly religious family in Western Denmark to pursue an engineering degree.
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- Esben Smed
- Bille August
- Drama, History
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unr...
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May 2, 2019 · The screenwriting, adapted from the Danish author Henrik Pontoppidan’s turn-of-the-20th-century novel “Lucky Per,” hoists subtext so high that it surpasses text.
- Bille August
Official Trailer. In the late 19th century, Peter Sidenius is an ambitious young man from a devout Christian family in Western Denmark, who travels to the Danish capital of Copenhagen to study engineering, rebelling against his clergyman father.
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A Fortunate Man: With Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Benjamin Kitter, Tommy Kenter. The story of Per Sidenius, a farmer's son seeking to transform the Danish countryside despite his strict upbringing. He courts the daughter of a wealthy Copenhagen family but struggles to gain elite support.
A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin. Watch trailers & learn more.
