Johnny Larsen

The film is set in Copenhagen in the nineteen fifties. At the centre of the account is a young man called Johnny. He is growing up in a working class world. The account follows his years of growing up. There is finding work, earning money and holding on. Love is part of those years too. On some days everything goes well. On others nothing holds together. The people around him look after one another. Solidarity is the mark of the period. The film was adapted from a novel. The novel told of the same world. The production was named best film at the Bodil awards. Allan Olsen took the best actor award as well. Olsen and Aksel Erhardtsen take the leads in Morten Arnfred’s Danish film of 1979.