Lille soldier
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| Original title | Lille soldier |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish , English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 100 minutes |
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| Director | Annette K. Olesen |
| script | Kim Fupz Aakeson |
| production | Ib Tardini |
| music | Kaare Bjerkø |
| camera | Camilla Hjelm Knudsen |
| cut | Jacob Thuesen |
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Lille soldat is a Danish film drama from 2008 that was shown in Germany under the name “Little Soldier” at the Berlinale 2009 and otherwise remained unpublished.
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Lotte was a soldier in the Danish army in Iraq . She comes back to Denmark early from this mission . Her father tries to make life easier for Lotte. He lost his driver's license from drunk driving and is giving her the job of his driver. The father has a haulage company and also runs a brothel . He lives with the Nigerian Lily, who also buys for him. Lotte has to drive Lily to her customers every day and protect them. At first, the relationship between the two women is tense. Lily doesn't believe that a woman can protect her in difficult situations. When Lily is threatened with a gun by a mad client , she saves Lotte from danger. Lily gains confidence and even tells Lotte about her 9-year-old daughter who lives in Nigeria. She hasn't seen the girl for five years. When Lily has an appointment with a regular customer with necrophilic tendencies, Lotte can no longer bear the prostitute's suffering . She knocks down the husband Henning and brings the unconscious Lily into her apartment. But Lily blames Lotte. She lost a harmless regular customer who paid very well for his extraordinary sexual practices. Now she can no longer feed her daughter through Lotte. Lotte's father wants to sell Lily to Sweden after this incident . Lotte then steals her father's savings and Lily's passport. She pretends to be a customer and asks Lily to visit a hotel room. There she can convince Lily that she will take the money and return to her daughter's home. Lotte takes Lily to the airport and the Nigerian woman leaves Denmark on a charter flight. Subsequently, Lotte is confronted by her father about this incident and severely beaten.
Reviews
“Annette Olesen, who competed at the Berlinale five years ago with the prison drama ' In Your Hands ', has reflected so many big issues in her film - sexual exploitation, globalization, Iraq, female identity, fathers and daughters - that sometimes it does it seems that the next moment the story might bend under this burden. But she holds up. This is not only due to the hand-held camera with which the director supports the gaze of her main character. It is also due to a certain, specifically European attitude towards the story. Because Olesen is not afraid of loose ends. She doesn't sew every thread in her fabric. What will become of Lily in the end and whether Lotte can get rid of her war trauma remains open. The only thing that is clear is that she freed herself from her father. She won't go to war for him. "
Awards
The film took part in the competition at the Berlinale 2009 , but received nothing from the international jury. Instead, he received the Ecumenical Jury Prize . The film also received four nominations for the Danish Robert Film Award in 2009 .
Web links
- Lille soldier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- official homepage