Caspar Koch

To mark the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House', Poul Trier Pedersen has invited six women and six men to compose and act out scenes depicting relationships in 1979. The result is a theatrical play in three acts and 20 scenes based on spontaneous acting, in which the performers occasionally discuss the situations they themselves have created.

A man grows up in very modest circumstances in the early years of the 20th century, but his diligence, intelligence and willingness to endure hardship helps him to become a leading brain surgeon. A success story on the face of it, but a story about a man – who is none other than the director's father – a man of powerful emotions. The film explores the nature and origin of the guilt that repeatedly deprived him of happiness.