Entrusted with delivering both an eight-hour TV miniseries and a feature film in “1864,” the most expensive Danish production ever, one can forgive director Ole Bornedal for wishing at the time that ...
The Danish drama 1864 has been licensed by MHz Networks to launch in the U.S. on its streaming service MHz Choice. Shot as a feature film and available as eight episodes, it tells a story of love in ...
The latest Danish offering may be enough to test the most die-hard of BBC4’s Saturday night fans of all things Nordic. ‘1864’ tells the story of the thankless Second Schleswig campaign fought by the ...
Apart from its cast, 1864 has in common with its predecessors an interest in the trickledown impact of politics on ordinary lives. The drama opens in 1851 when soldiers come back from war to a ...
The Battle of Königshügel marked the invasion of Austria into Denmark, during in Second Schleswig War. But the conflict with ...
Helpfully it’s also riddled with actors familiar from The Killing and Borgen. Meanwhile in Copenhagen up-and-coming politician Bishop Monrad (Nicolas Bro) becomes the figurehead for Denmark’s need to ...