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Release Date:
September 8, 1989
Original Title:
Lykken er en underlig fisk
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Metronome Productions
Production Countries:
Denmark
Ratings / Certifications:
DK: A
Runtime: 89
A socially realistic drama about the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter in a windswept port town in Jutland. The mother is from Copenhagen and was once a beauty queen. Now she is married to a fisherman, works at the fish filleting factory, and is having an affair with the factory's unsympathetic owner. She has come to terms with her life, but her daughter cannot accept a future cutting up fish. When she wins a local beauty contest, she sees a chance to escape, but things turn out differently.
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