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Monika (1994)

Monika poster
Country
Denmark
Runtime
15 min

How it feels

A young girl dreams of having a boyfriend. She brings a guy home from a party and they have a nice evening together. She is very disappointed when he never calls back. A few years later she meets him by chance on a ferry and tells him she got pregnant and they have a child.

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What happens

Monika er en dansk kortfilm fra 1994 instrueret af Michael Bach Rasmussen og efter manuskript af Michael Bach. Vi følger en ung pige, hvis største drøm er at få en kæreste. En aften lykkes det hende at få en fyr med hjem fra en fest. De har det rigtigt hyggeligt, synes hun, derfor bliver hun meget skuffet, da han aldrig ringer igen som lovet. Et par år senere møder hun ham tilfældigt på en færge, hvor hun fortæller ham, at han gjorde hende gravid, og at de har et barn sammen... (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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