Lykken er en underlig fisk (1989)

4.8/10 89 min Drama

Overview

A socially realistic drama about the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter in a windswept port town in Jutland. The mother is from Copenhagen and was once a beauty queen. Now she is married to a fisherman, works at the fish filleting factory, and is having an affair with the factory's unsympathetic owner. She has come to terms with her life, but her daughter cannot accept a future cutting up fish. When she wins a local beauty contest, she sees a chance to escape, but things turn out differently.

Cast

Stine Bierlich

Mia

Helle Ryslinge

Lotta

Lars Knutzon

Christian

Ole Ernst

Sandvig

Pelle Koppel

Manfred

Lise Schrøder

Jens Jørn Spottag

Mogens Brix-Pedersen

Marianne Moritzen

Beatrice Palner

Fritze Hedemann

Niels Sleimann

Carsten Bang

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