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Black Pete – No, You're It

Black Pete – No, You're It

1980•48m
DramaDocumentary

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."

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Production

Statens Filmcentral, Minerva Film

Language

DA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Carl Quist Møller

Carl

Susse Brodersen

Hanne

Lone Lindorff

Lone Lindorff

Leif Sylvester

Leif Sylvester

Hannah Bjarnhof

Hannah Bjarnhof

Helle Ryslinge

Helle Ryslinge

Peter Østed

Esben Høilund Carlsen

Ove Brusendorff

Ole Hartkopp

Svend Heinild

Hans Henrik Voetmann

Hans Henrik Voetmann

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