Mother at War

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.

Cast

Trine Dyrholm Erna Jensen Ulrich Thomsen Feldwebel Meier Anders W. Berthelsen Anton Seiersen Elias Munk Julius Rasmussen Ari Alexander Max Petersen Sylvester Byder Kalle Jensen

Emil Aron Dorph Mathias Hansen

Mads Landelund Christian Poulsen

Aksel Ojari Fritz Müller

Patrick Descamps French Camp Commander

Jørn Holstein Train Conductor

Hugo Henry German Interpreter

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