Beauty and the Beast (1983)

Original title

Skønheden og udyret

Directed by

Nils Malmros

Genre

drama film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

A

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 16-year-old girl in Denmark begins having sexual relationships with boys. Her father struggles with jealousy and finds it hard to accept her growing independence.

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What happens

Beauty and the Beast (Danish: Skønheden og udyret) is a 1983 Danish drama film written and directed by Nils Malmros. The film stars Line Arlien-Søborg as a sexually active 16-year-old and Jesper Klein as the father who struggles to accept his daughter's relationships with boys as well as his own jealousy. Malmros, who had worked with the young Arlien-Søborg on his coming-of-age drama, Tree of Knowledge, wrote the role of the daughter specifically for her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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