Sofie

The story takes place at the end of the nineteenth century. The place is Copenhagen. There is a well off Jewish merchant family. Sofie is the daughter of that house. She is stubborn and has a mind of her own. She falls in love with a painter who is not Jewish. The family will not allow the attachment. Another marriage is arranged for Sofie. She accepts it. Marriage, childbirth and household life follow one another. As the years pass the weight grows heavier. She also carries the results of her own choices. The film is about the quiet pressure inside a family. It was adapted from a novel by Henri Nathansen published in 1932. It was the first film Liv Ullmann directed. She wrote the screenplay with the poet Peter Poulsen. Karen-Lise Mynster and Erland Josephson appear in the hundred and fifty two minute film, a Swedish, Danish and Norwegian production finished in 1992.