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== Background == |
== Background == |
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The film deals with a 1950s oppression of Greenland. In 1951 the Danish colonial authorities removed 22 Greenlandic [[Inuit]] children (9 girls and 13 boys) from their homes.<ref name="premiere"/> The selected children, aged between 6 and 8,<ref name="review">{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/kultur/article128089.ece |title=Anmeldelse: Stærk og rørende film |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=29 August 2010 |language=Danish |accessdate=29 August 2010}}</ref> came from disadvantaged families.<ref name=" |
The film deals with a 1950s oppression of Greenland. In 1951 the Danish colonial authorities removed 22 Greenlandic [[Inuit]] children (9 girls and 13 boys) from their homes.<ref name="premiere"/> The selected children, aged between 6 and 8,<ref name="review">{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/kultur/article128089.ece |title=Anmeldelse: Stærk og rørende film |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=29 August 2010 |language=Danish |accessdate=29 August 2010}}</ref> came from disadvantaged families.<ref name="premiere"/><ref name="review"/><ref name="cp" /> |
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[[File:Eksperimentetshot.jpg|thumb|left|Scene from the film: Karen (portrayed by Laura Skaarup Jensen) taken away from her parents by Nurse Gert (portrayed by [[Ellen Hillingsø]])]] |
[[File:Eksperimentetshot.jpg|thumb|left|Scene from the film: Karen (portrayed by Laura Skaarup Jensen) taken away from her parents by Nurse Gert (portrayed by [[Ellen Hillingsø]])]] |
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The surviving children lost their [[Greenlandic language|native language]] and culture, and suffered from the [[psychological trauma]] of being separated from their families most of their lives.<ref name="review"/><ref name="knr">{{cite news |url=http://www.knr.gl/index.php?id=183&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=58285&cHash=8b84d7ae3a |title=Eksperimentet vises i september |work=[[Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa]] |language=Danish |date=22 July 2010 |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> Some of the children were returned to Greenland after a year, where they were placed into an [[orphanage]] in Nuuk, rather than being returned to their families. |
The surviving children lost their [[Greenlandic language|native language]] and culture, and suffered from the [[psychological trauma]] of being separated from their families most of their lives.<ref name="review"/><ref name="knr">{{cite news |url=http://www.knr.gl/index.php?id=183&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=58285&cHash=8b84d7ae3a |title=Eksperimentet vises i september |work=[[Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa]] |language=Danish |date=22 July 2010 |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> Some of the children were returned to Greenland after a year, where they were placed into an [[orphanage]] in Nuuk, rather than being returned to their families. Others stayed in Denmark for the remainder of their lives.<ref name="knr"/> More than half died before reaching adulthood.<ref name="cp">{{cite news |url=http://cphpost.dk/news/international/89-international/46619-no-apology-from-denmark.html |title=No apology from Denmark |work=[[The Copenhagen Post]] |date=20 August 2009 |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref name="ice">{{cite news |url=http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/08/14/greenland-demands-apology-for-danish-child-experiments/ |title=Greenland demands apology for Danish child experiments |work=[[IceNews]] |date=14 August 2009 |accessdate=30 August 2010}}</ref> |
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In 2009, on behalf of the [[Government of Greenland]] ({{lang-kl|Naalakkersuisut}}), the prime minister [[Kuupik Kleist]] demanded an official apology from Denmark for the failed social experiment.<ref name="ice"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.gl/indland/article96761.ece |title=Professor: Giv Grønland en undskyldning |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=14 September 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> [[Lars Løkke Rasmussen]], the prime minister of Denmark, refused, while admitting that the event was "unfortunate".<ref name="cp"/> His refusal leaves the issue of apology and compensation contentious between Greenland and Denmark.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/politik/article93092.ece |title=Kuupik: Fortiden skal klarlægges |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=11 August 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/politik/article93082.ece |title=DF: Ingen undskyldning |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=11 August 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/politik/article92926.ece |title=Vil have en undskyldning |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=10 August 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> |
In 2009, on behalf of the [[Government of Greenland]] ({{lang-kl|Naalakkersuisut}}), the prime minister [[Kuupik Kleist]] demanded an official apology from Denmark for the failed social experiment.<ref name="ice"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.gl/indland/article96761.ece |title=Professor: Giv Grønland en undskyldning |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=14 September 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> [[Lars Løkke Rasmussen]], the prime minister of Denmark, refused, while admitting that the event was "unfortunate".<ref name="cp"/> His refusal leaves the issue of apology and compensation contentious between Greenland and Denmark.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/politik/article93092.ece |title=Kuupik: Fortiden skal klarlægges |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=11 August 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/politik/article93082.ece |title=DF: Ingen undskyldning |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=11 August 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/politik/article92926.ece |title=Vil have en undskyldning |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=10 August 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> |
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== Production == |
== Production == |
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Director Louise Friedberg was inspired by reading ''I den bedste mening'' (2006) (With the Best Intentions), a [[memoir]] by Tine Bryld. A summary of the interview with Bryld was also released in 2006 as a 28-minute video under the same title. |
Director Louise Friedberg was inspired by reading ''I den bedste mening'' (2006) (With the Best Intentions), a [[memoir]] by Tine Bryld. A summary of the interview with Bryld was also released in 2006 as a 28-minute video under the same title. It was shown as part of ''Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, a Postcolonial Exhibition Project'' in the summer of 2006.<ref name="knr"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rethinking-nordic-colonialism.org/files/grid/b4.htm |publisher=Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, a Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts: Iceland, Greenland, The Faroe Islands, Finnish Sápmi & Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden |title=RNC* Documentation, ''Silver Screen Resistance'' |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> |
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Between 13 and 21 July 2009, Friedberg shot scenes for the film in [[Kangeq]], a former settlement on the coast of [[Labrador Sea]] in southwestern Greenland, located approximately {{convert|18|km|mi|abbr=on}} west-south-west of Nuuk, at the mouth of [[Nuup Kangerlua]], the longest [[fjord]] in southwestern Greenland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr15.php |publisher=[[Norwegian University of Science and Technology]] |title=TIL OPPLYSNING |accessdate=29 August 2010}}</ref> The old houses of Kangeq were used as a backdrop, as the settlement was to represent Nuuk in 1952.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.gl/kultur/article90758.ece |title=Kangeq med i film |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=21 July 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=27 August 2010}}</ref> The city center had many [[Blok P|communal apartment blocks]] developed in the 1960s, which changed its character.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sermersooq.gl/da/presse/nyheder/2009/juli/optagelser_til_eksperimentet_i_nuuk.aspx |publisher=[[Sermersooq]] municipality |title=Optagelser til |
Between 13 and 21 July 2009, Friedberg shot scenes for the film in [[Kangeq]], a former settlement on the coast of [[Labrador Sea]] in southwestern Greenland, located approximately {{convert|18|km|mi|abbr=on}} west-south-west of Nuuk, at the mouth of [[Nuup Kangerlua]], the longest [[fjord]] in southwestern Greenland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr15.php |publisher=[[Norwegian University of Science and Technology]] |title=TIL OPPLYSNING |accessdate=29 August 2010}}</ref> The old houses of Kangeq were used as a backdrop, as the settlement was to represent Nuuk in 1952.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.gl/kultur/article90758.ece |title=Kangeq med i film |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=21 July 2009 |language=Danish |accessdate=27 August 2010}}</ref> The city center had many [[Blok P|communal apartment blocks]] developed in the 1960s, which changed its character.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sermersooq.gl/da/presse/nyheder/2009/juli/optagelser_til_eksperimentet_i_nuuk.aspx |publisher=[[Sermersooq]] municipality |title=Optagelser til "EKSPERIMENTET" i Nuuk |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> |
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The film was produced by [[Nimbus Film]].<ref name="nimbus"/> It was one of six films in 2009 receiving government grants because of their importance for the culture of Greenland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dk.nanoq.gl/Emner/Landsstyre/Departementer/Departement_for_kultur/Nyhedsforside/Nyheder_fra_dep_kultur/2009/07/filmpulje_2009.aspx |publisher=[[Government of Greenland]] |title=Tilskud til seks filmprojekter |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> |
The film was produced by [[Nimbus Film]].<ref name="nimbus"/> It was one of six films in 2009 receiving government grants because of their importance for the culture of Greenland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dk.nanoq.gl/Emner/Landsstyre/Departementer/Departement_for_kultur/Nyhedsforside/Nyheder_fra_dep_kultur/2009/07/filmpulje_2009.aspx |publisher=[[Government of Greenland]] |title=Tilskud til seks filmprojekter |language=Danish |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref> |
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== Reception == |
== Reception == |
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=== Premiere === |
=== Premiere === |
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The premiere of the film in Greenland was attended by the prime minister and [[Maliina Abelsen]], the minister for social affairs.<ref name="knr-review">{{cite news |url=http://knr.gl/index.php?id=183&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=59441&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=143&cHash=e294c69fc9 |title='Eksperimentet' er rørende, stærk og vigtig |work=[[Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa]] |language=Danish |date=29 August 2010 |accessdate=30 August 2010}}</ref> It was an emotional event, both because of the topic and because the issue of the official apology still unresolved. |
The premiere of the film in Greenland was attended by the prime minister and [[Maliina Abelsen]], the minister for social affairs.<ref name="knr-review">{{cite news |url=http://knr.gl/index.php?id=183&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=59441&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=143&cHash=e294c69fc9 |title='Eksperimentet' er rørende, stærk og vigtig |work=[[Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa]] |language=Danish |date=29 August 2010 |accessdate=30 August 2010}}</ref> It was an emotional event, both because of the topic and because the issue of the official apology still unresolved. Several of the survivors are still alive.<ref name="review"/><ref name="knr"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/indland/article127708.ece |title=Børnehjemsbarn udgiver erindringer |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=25 August 2010 |language=Danish |accessdate=29 August 2010}}</ref> ''Eksperimentet'' is the first film dealing with the dark episodes from Greenland's history as a former colony.<ref name="review"/> Others are likely to follow, stimulating more discussion and debate in the country,<ref name="review"/><ref name="knr-review"/> as well as in Denmark.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/indland/article128271.ece |title=Mary og Frede til premiere på "Eksperimentet" |work=[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]] |date=31 August 2010 |language=Danish |accessdate=31 August 2010}}</ref> The film was praised for its emotional appeal and acting. Critics thought the release dates in the summer may have limited the size of initial audiences.<ref name="review"/><ref name="knr-review"/> |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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Eksperimentet | |
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Directed by | Louise Friedberg[4] |
Written by | Maj Rørbæk Damgaard Louise Friedberg Rikke De Fine Licht[4][1] |
Produced by | Signe Leick Jensen Birgitte Skov[4][1] |
Starring | Ellen Hillingsø Nukaaka Coster-Waldau[4] |
Cinematography | Magnus Nordenhof Jønck[4] |
Edited by | Martin Schade[4] |
Music by | Ola Kvernberg[4] |
Distributed by | Sandrew Metronome Filmdistribution A/S[4] |
Release dates |
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Running time | 93 minutes[5] |
Country | Denmark |
Language | Greenlandic[4] |
Eksperimentet (English: The Experiment) is a 2010 Danish drama film written and directed by Louise Friedberg, and starring Ellen Hillingsø.[4] The film premiered on 28 August 2010 in the Katuaq Culture Centre in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.[2][3] The release date of the film in Denmark was 9 September 2010.[1]
Background
The film deals with a 1950s oppression of Greenland. In 1951 the Danish colonial authorities removed 22 Greenlandic Inuit children (9 girls and 13 boys) from their homes.[3] The selected children, aged between 6 and 8,[6] came from disadvantaged families.[3][6][7]
The surviving children lost their native language and culture, and suffered from the psychological trauma of being separated from their families most of their lives.[6][8] Some of the children were returned to Greenland after a year, where they were placed into an orphanage in Nuuk, rather than being returned to their families. Others stayed in Denmark for the remainder of their lives.[8] More than half died before reaching adulthood.[7][9]
In 2009, on behalf of the Government of Greenland (Greenlandic: Naalakkersuisut), the prime minister Kuupik Kleist demanded an official apology from Denmark for the failed social experiment.[9][10] Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the prime minister of Denmark, refused, while admitting that the event was "unfortunate".[7] His refusal leaves the issue of apology and compensation contentious between Greenland and Denmark.[11][12][13]
The film's lead actress, Ellen Hillingsø, urged Rasmussen to apologize to the victims.[14] In September 2010, Mimi Jakobsen, the general secretary of Save the Children (Danish: Red Barnet), the organization involved in the repatriations of 1951, issued a formal apology on behalf of the organization.[15][16]
Production
Director Louise Friedberg was inspired by reading I den bedste mening (2006) (With the Best Intentions), a memoir by Tine Bryld. A summary of the interview with Bryld was also released in 2006 as a 28-minute video under the same title. It was shown as part of Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, a Postcolonial Exhibition Project in the summer of 2006.[8][17]
Between 13 and 21 July 2009, Friedberg shot scenes for the film in Kangeq, a former settlement on the coast of Labrador Sea in southwestern Greenland, located approximately 18 km (11 mi) west-south-west of Nuuk, at the mouth of Nuup Kangerlua, the longest fjord in southwestern Greenland.[18] The old houses of Kangeq were used as a backdrop, as the settlement was to represent Nuuk in 1952.[19] The city center had many communal apartment blocks developed in the 1960s, which changed its character.[20]
The film was produced by Nimbus Film.[4] It was one of six films in 2009 receiving government grants because of their importance for the culture of Greenland.[21]
Cast
The cast has both Danish and Greenlandic members:[4][8]
Actor | Role |
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Ellen Hillingsø | Nurse Gert |
Nukaaka Coster-Waldau | Margrethe |
Morten Grunwald | Omann |
Laura Skaarup Jensen | Karen |
Kurt Ravn | Svendsen |
Laura Bro | Høgh |
Mads Ville | Dr. Brandt |
Finn Nielsen | Møller |
Domilia Marianne Singertat | Marie |
Paniaraq R. Søltoft | Ingrid |
Najaaraq Margit Davidsen | Dorthe |
Kristian Falck-Petersen | Daniel |
Reception
Premiere
The premiere of the film in Greenland was attended by the prime minister and Maliina Abelsen, the minister for social affairs.[22] It was an emotional event, both because of the topic and because the issue of the official apology still unresolved. Several of the survivors are still alive.[6][8][23] Eksperimentet is the first film dealing with the dark episodes from Greenland's history as a former colony.[6] Others are likely to follow, stimulating more discussion and debate in the country,[6][22] as well as in Denmark.[24] The film was praised for its emotional appeal and acting. Critics thought the release dates in the summer may have limited the size of initial audiences.[6][22]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Fakta om film". Danish Film Institute. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Verdenspremiere på 'Eksperimentet'". Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (in Danish). 28 August 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Premiere på 'Eksperimentet'". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 27 August 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Eksperimentet". Nimbus Film, Official Website. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ "Eksperimentet" (in Danish). Katuaq Culture Centre. Retrieved 30 August 2010. [dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g "Anmeldelse: Stærk og rørende film". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 29 August 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ a b c "No apology from Denmark". The Copenhagen Post. 20 August 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "Eksperimentet vises i september". Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (in Danish). 22 July 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Greenland demands apology for Danish child experiments". IceNews. 14 August 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
- ^ "Professor: Giv Grønland en undskyldning". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 14 September 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ "Kuupik: Fortiden skal klarlægges". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 11 August 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ "DF: Ingen undskyldning". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 11 August 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ "Vil have en undskyldning". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 10 August 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ "Hillingsø: Sig undskyld, Lars Løkke". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 28 August 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ "Red Barnet: Undskyld til grønlandske børn". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 4 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Red Barnet: Undskyld til grønlandske børn". Berlingske Tidende (in Danish). 4 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "RNC* Documentation, Silver Screen Resistance". Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, a Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts: Iceland, Greenland, The Faroe Islands, Finnish Sápmi & Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ "TIL OPPLYSNING". Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ "Kangeq med i film". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 21 July 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
- ^ "Optagelser til "EKSPERIMENTET" i Nuuk". Sermersooq municipality. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ "Tilskud til seks filmprojekter" (in Danish). Government of Greenland. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ a b c "'Eksperimentet' er rørende, stærk og vigtig". Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (in Danish). 29 August 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
- ^ "Børnehjemsbarn udgiver erindringer". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 25 August 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ "Mary og Frede til premiere på "Eksperimentet"". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 31 August 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.