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Southern Comfort(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-01-01
62%
6 Votes
Time: 0h 57m
Overview:
7-year old Ida has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. The second of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.
Languages: Danish.
Countries:
Denmark
ProductionCompanies:
Dansk Novellefilm
Movie: Southern Comfort
Top 4 Billed Cast
Stephania Potalivo
Ida
Birgitte Federspiel
Mormor
Maurice Blinkenberg-Thrane
Skrubsak
Birgitte Simonsen
Mor
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7-year old Ida has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. The second of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.
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1997-01-01
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