Young folk leave a cruel civilization and transport into a more modern village where things are better. Sadly their fate turns out just as cruel in this newer world.Young folk leave a cruel civilization and transport into a more modern village where things are better. Sadly their fate turns out just as cruel in this newer world.Young folk leave a cruel civilization and transport into a more modern village where things are better. Sadly their fate turns out just as cruel in this newer world.
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Bent Warburg
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- TriviaDuring the shooting of this film, one morning two girls were on the edge of the cry. A group of children actors have gathered to talk about what should turn out to be a bomb during production. "Ernst Johansen had held private castings at his own place. Here he had seduced the girls, and they were very shameful and deeply unhappy about it", recalls Janek Lesniak, who had the lead in the film as the warrior Nelo. Several young girls told same-story stories about how they ended in bed with 36-year-old Ernst Johansen. The director admitted he had full sexual intercourse with Susanne Storm, Stine Olsen and another girl, and only petting with Janni Olsson (an extra). Søren Hindborg, who plays the brave Alfo in the film, remembers the shock that occurred with the girls. "He had enticed them with the notion that they could be in several movies. The biggest shock was not that they had been in bed with an elderly gentleman, but that they had been cheated. When the girls were taken in the ass in that way, I can well understand that they started talking about rape. However, I do not have the experience that someone was forced into anything. They were lured by a smart director and thought it was perfectly okay to go to bed with the director - that it was a way to become an actor," he says.
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A very bad cold-war childrens film
In the 70's, a lot of Danish intellectuals and film-makers had socialist ideas. There were a lot of films, telling about the inhumanity of capitalism. This one is about a group of children fleeing from a cruel stoneage society with violence, exploitation and sexual abuse. The title: Krigernes børn = Children of the warriors. The children make a timetravel and end up in a modern capitalistic society. Which soon turns out to be just as unfair and violent as the stoneage society. It comes to a sort of confrontation, I guess nobody quite understands, whats really happening in this bizarre movie. But the real world turned out even more bizarre than the movie. It could be viewed as irrelevant - but just after the films release, one of the actors, a 15-year old girl, committed suicide, jumping in front of a Copenhagen commuter train. Leaving a note, telling that she was forced to have sex with the director during the film sessions! The director admitted, was jailed and made no more films. And everybody has been trying to forget this film ever since!
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- jpjensen
- Aug 13, 1998
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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