To preserve the Hamre family, Bente follows his dying father's will and marries the brutal landlord son Gorm. He chases the farm's young girls and is subject to the bad influence of the evil and intriguing shooter Groves. The unhappy marriage turns into a veritable power struggle between Bente and Gorm. In parallel is followed by Bente's younger sister Grethe, who appears to be happily married to grocery son Martin. This one is, however, unnaturally strongly linked to his mother, and his family spends off Grethe's legacy.
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A very different and darker Morten Korch story
Gyldmark8 June 2000
Bodil Jørgensen is the star here, as Bente who is the heiress of her fathers farm after his death, he also wished for an arranged marriage with Gorm (Bjarne Henriksen), a typical male from the 1800's. But Bente is too strong a woman for both him, and all the other characters in the film. She's probably 100 years ahead of her time. Very powerful performances by all, and maybe more true to the novels of Morten Korch, than the older films. Only bad thing is the musics main title, that is too annoying compared to the pictures and opening dialogue.
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