Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys were forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of the Danish sergeant, Carl Leopold Rasmussen.
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter’s daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews’ escape to Sweden in October 1943.