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Der Kommer en Dag (2016)

Drama | 119 minutes
3,88 432 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 119 minuten

Alternative title: The Day Will Come

Country: Denmark

Directed by: Jesper W. Nielsen

Stars: Lars Mikkelsen, Sofie Gråbøl and Harald Kaiser Hermann

IMDb score: 7,9 (6.497)

Releasedate: 21 April 2016

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Der Kommer en Dag plot

"Some have power, others have bravery."

The booming 1960s. Two young brothers are robbed of their free lives when they are placed in a boys' boarding school where time seems to have stood still. Violence and humiliation are part of everyday life. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys face a terrifying battle with Director Heck and his deadly tyranny.

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Ebenezer Scrooge

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This didn't do much for me, pretty cliche, nineties-esque.
The boy Elmer is completely idolatrous of all things space travel and wants to become an astronaut when he grows up. I thought that still had something touching and it certainly adds something. The old water tank that is supposed to represent a rocket was originally conceived. Also great that the space dog Laika is still being discussed.
But actually everyone feels like a caricature. The lady represents such an angelic figure who has good intentions for the boys, but does not lift a paw. Yeah, at the end.. At one point, to please Elmer, she lets him hear music from Strauss, from a movie she recently saw, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Joh, just take that poor kid to the cinema so he can see the movie for himself. The director is, of course, a tyrant. When Elmer is beaten up by him and later by the other boys, he is surprisingly barely scratched.
The reading of the letters and the children who are completely impressed by them resembled The Shawshank Redemption; Tim Robbins, who is highly regarded as a bookkeeper among his fellow inmates.
Also very predictable at times. At one point there is a very casual scene in which a television is carried into the boarding school, for which purpose is not mentioned. And a little later, as expected, there is the broadcast of the moon landing and all the children are sitting in front of the TV.
The melodramatic Dead Poets Society scene at the end with the guys raising their hands one by one was really horrifying.. 'We're all living in America, America is wunderbar!'
The decoration has turned out well, especially the boys' boarding school clothes.

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Donkerwoud

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According to a Danish friend, Lars Mikkelsen, Mads' older brother, is known in his homeland as the acclaimed theater actor who wins all the awards. And 'Der Kommer en Dag' (2016) also shows that Lars can play a probing villain role as the school principal who rules with a heavy hand over boys' boarding school Godhavn. It is the late 1960s in which the impact of abuse of power - such as corporal punishment or sexual violence - receives public attention due to an anti-authoritarian wind, but in the periphery that hard pedagogical line still has a place. Due to a combination of a cumbersome bureaucratic system, a culture of fear and silence and an old boys' network, the young people themselves are still not being listened to. It is against this context that the dreamy Elmer (Harald Kaiser Hermann) and his brother Erik (Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt) enter the boarding school. Where they have to form alliances with schoolmates or placate the authorities not to perish in this violent environment. After a particularly poignant scene, I hoped that 'Der Kommer en Dag' (2016) would become a kind of 'Lord of the Flies', in which the young people retaliate for the suffering that has been done to them. But it is not such a film and in the end it remains somewhat cowardly within the predictable lines of a sentimental tearjerker.

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Filmkriebel

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One has power, the other has courage

Sad and sometimes heartbreaking story about abuse of power in a Danish orphanage in the late 1960s, which looked more like a Nazi labor camp. Although Director Heck thinks otherwise, there is nothing to justify the abuse the children have to endure in the name of proper disciplinary upbringing. Now I found some elements to be weak, as it is always Erik and Elmer who become the target of the violence. The other children are barely worked out; they usually stand by and watch. The disciplinary staff is also quite one-dimensional. But it is still very well played and the feeling of powerlessness and injustice grips to the throat. Elmer's dream of becoming an astronaut is often referenced in the margins, a way to get through the daily misery and hope for better times.

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Kooiker

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What a great movie and what great actors. Especially those two guys and especially that Elmer. He is so young (10 years old at the time of shooting) and so believable. But even those terrible men are so believable that you hate them. What a horrible man that Lars Mickkelsen portrays and so he is a great actor.
The Scandinavians are good at that. Compare that to Americans.
And yes, of course there has to be a happy ending.

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Arnie

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No, this is such a caricature that it definitely doesn't deserve the high rating. Standard youth boarding school misery with cliché fascists at its head and over-the-top touching boys whose dreams just can't become reality. The only bright spot is Lars Mikkelsen's acting, and if you're sensitive to it Elmar's dreams about astronauts and the actuality of the first moon landing.

Almost every nuance is missing, and the role of the only female teacher is also strange. In addition, there are some unbelievable and strange plot twists: for example if Elmar gets his day trip to town while his brother is dying, and visits his old teacher, why don't they just go to the police or the hospital? .

Yet another top 250 film tapped, which is of course a win.

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