Overview

In this Danish suspense film, the foibles of the psychological helping professions are wryly surveyed. A woman has murdered her husband. That's clear enough. Now the woman is in a psychiatric hospital because it seemed clear to the judges that she was not fully competent. Her doctor, who is helping her a great deal, has problems of his own. First, he is against the cookie-cutter treatment practices of his hospital, second, he is on shaky mental ground himself. Then he violates his therapeutic ethics by carrying on an affair with the woman he is treating.

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Cast

Lotte Tarp

Birthe Kold

Erik Wedersøe

Torben, Psychiatrist

Jens Østerholm

Birthe's Husband

Anne-Lise Gabold

Torben's Ex Wife

Lisbeth Movin

Birthe's Mother

Steen Kaalø

Vera Gebuhr

Gerda Madsen

Elsebeth Reingaard

Peter Ronild

Lise Schrøder

Inger Stender