Aage Foss

A Danish comedy about 3 fishermen and a girl.

The seamstress Bolette lives in a little village in the countryside. She is unmarried, but in her youth she had a love affair with Peter Enevoldsen, who now is the political leader of the parish. Bolette is a strong and frank woman, who never hesitates to express pungent truths. She finds out that Enevoldsen's son Karl is in love with the housemaid Sophie and has made her pregnant. As Sophie needs financial support Bolette goes straight to Enevoldsen and tells him the whole story. (imdb)

In an idyllic Danish town lives grocery Frost, a very wealthy man, and his greatest wish is that his son Hans will become a lawyer and reach a very prestigious position. But Hans can't complete high school and don't like studying. His main interest is music, but this he must keep hidden because both his parents are against it.

The people depicted in the film have grown up in the Jutland soil and are characterized by its toughness, centuries of struggle with the fabled heath, which in its lonely majesty seems to brood over great secrets that it will most reluctantly let go of. The battle is fierce and unspeakably bitter for the frugal Jutland heath farmer, and how many fates are not buried under the heathen's silent monument? (imdb)