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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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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.
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...
Apr 19, 2019 · A Fortunate Man, based on the novel Lykke-Per by Henrik Pontoppidan, is a film about a man whose quest to divorce himself from his upbringing leads him to the cusp of brilliance but also causes him to self-destruct, alienating himself from everyone in his life.
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.
A Fortunate Man, book and film, offers large portions of fascinating social, historical and psychological life. Both are also deeply flawed. Full Review | Jun 27, 2021
