Wild Flowers

Oct 5, 1997

1h 18m

★ 5.0

Overview

Denmark in the '70s. The teenager Christoffer's parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune, because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn't like it, and has trouble adapting. In school, the others tease him because he lives in a commune. As a plan from the elders in the commune, he starts in a Maoist group to learn about the real ways of the society. He doesn't like it, but when his new girlfriend starts to see what he does as cool he goes into it. But at the same time, the police start to suspect him to be the terrorist who blows up telephone booths around Copenhagen.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Per Holst Filmproduktion

Wild Flowers Trailers

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Cast

Maria

Ditte Gråbøl

Tine

Andrea Vagn Jensen

Julie

Mira Wanting

Palle

Peter Frödin

Nisse

Niels Olsen

Christoffer

Sixten Tobias Kai Nielsen

Svend Erik

Søren Sætter-Lassen

Ingerlaise

Dea Fog

Aksel

Anders Nyborg

Tønnes

Jens Wiberg Lindrup

Oglala

Irene Bedard

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