My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts |
| Country of production |
Canada Norway |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Rod | |
| Director | Torill Kove |
| script | Torill Kove |
| production |
Marcy Page for the National Film Board of Canada , Lars Tømmerbakke for Studio Magica, Norway |
| music | Kevin Dean |
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts , French version Ma grand-mère repassait les chemises du roi , is a 1999 Canadian animated short film directed by Torill Kove .
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The narrator tells of her grandmother and the events in Norway that are intertwined with her. When the Norwegians decided to become a monarchy again in 1905, the Dane Carl von Glücksburg, Prince of Denmark, as Haakon VII became King of Norway among a large number of applicants for the throne . He moved into the Royal Palace in Oslo with his wife and child , but soon had a problem: none of the three could iron shirts, so appearing in crumpled shirts in public led to public irritation. So the royal family gave their shirts to a laundry where the narrator's grandmother worked. For a long time she did not notice whose shirts she was ironing, but at some point she discovered the king's emblem on a shirt, followed the shirt collector and saw him disappear into the castle. From then on she told everyone who might care that she ironed the king's shirts. That's how she met her husband.
When Norway was occupied in the Second World War in 1940 , the king fled Oslo and the grandmother now had to iron the shirts of the National Socialists. Together with other laundries, she developed a conspiratorial network and regularly manipulated the Nazis' shirts, tore off buttons or seared holes in them. When the occupiers fled, they did so because they ran out of shirts. The grandmother was honored by the king for her resistance and gave him a warm hug at the award ceremony. Although she ironed shirts for a few years after the end of the war, the 1960s proved to be too progressive for her craft, so she gave it up - except for the private sector.
production
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts was the first film directed by Torill Kove. The spokesperson for the English version is Mag Ruffman , the French Sophie Léger .
Awards
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts was nominated for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ” in 2000, but could not prevail against The Old Man and the Sea .