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Eventyret om en by (1949)

Eventyret om en by poster
Directed by
Ove Sevel
Genre
documentary film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
6 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Danish documentary imagines a city filled with all the arthritis patients in the country. It shows how different streets represent various rheumatic diseases and offers glimpses into the patients' struggles. The film presents efforts to ease suffering and stresses the need for funding research so one day the city can be empty.

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What happens

Eventyret om en by er en dansk dokumentarfilm fra 1949 med instruktion og manuskript af Ove Sevel. Hvis man samlede alle gigtpatienter i Danmark, ville de kunne fylde en hel by - over dette motiv er filmen bygget. De forskellige gader i byen bærer de forskellige latinske navne på de rheumatiske sygdomme. Man ser i filmen enkelte borgere i gigtens by og får i glimt et indtryk af deres tragedie. Filmen viser, hvad der gøres for at lindre patienternes lidelser og bekæmpe sygdommen, og det slås fast, at der må skaffes penge til fortsat forskningsarbejde, så gigtens by en dag kan stå tom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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