A Fortunate Man

Synopsis

"A gifted but self-destructive young man leaves his suffocating Lutheran upbringing in the country for the metropolitan Copenhagen of the 1880s. An engineer with progressive ideas, he is welcomed by a wealthy Jewish family and insinuates himself into their opulent milieu, embarking on a journey of personal and professional ambition that teeters on the razor’s edge between triumph and catastrophe. A sprawling story of grand scope and high romance from the Academy Award–winning director of Pelle the Conqueror, A Fortunate Man is a rare kind of film—beautifully realized, full of exceptional performances, and with a dramatic sweep on par with the great classics of cinema." [Quoted in Wikipedia from Elisebeth Dyssegarrd] Interesting interplay of religion (Christianity and Judaism) and science. Per, a gifted engineer, hates his father's strict Lutheranism. Jacobe makes a speech at the dinner table about the spiritual mission of science and engineering to bring people together (railroads, telegraphs, etc.).

Genre

Historical

Released

2018

Location

Europe

Period

Denmark in the 1880s;

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