Gitte Zehngraff

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Starring Reuter Christiansen herself and shot in the lush landscape of Møn, the Danish island where she has lived since 1970, THE EXECUTIONER uses a fragmented narrative to tell “a story of woman’s degradation and exaltation,” as its subtitle indicates. A landmark of Danish feminist art, the film was also Reuter Christiansen’s first major collaboration with Henning, who composed the film’s lyrical, subtly experimental music.

An existential pictorial poem about human life. "Can they stand it? Do they never feel?" (DFI)