Summary

Many of us in America have a utopian idea of Denmark, perhaps for good reason: It ranks quite high on indexes of happiness and social infrastructure and civil rights. But, of course, any nation has its painful eras, one of which is conjured up in May el-Toukhy ’s post-WWII drama Woman Unknown . The film is an effectively dark portrait of open wounds left by Nazi occupation, the past terribly coming to bear on what is meant to be a time of great relief and celebration.

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