Slagtebænk Dybbøl (2014)

Directed by

Klaus Birch

Genre

documentary film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

58 min

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This documentary follows two Danish brothers and officers, Ernst and Emil Schau, during the Second Schleswig War in 1864. Using their letters home to their wives and children in Copenhagen, it tells the story of soldiers enduring a freezing and disastrous campaign that ends in the Battle of Dybbøl.

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What happens

Slagtebænk Dybbøl er en dansk dokumentarfilm fra 2014 instrueret af Klaus Birch. To danske brødre og officerer, Ernst og Emil Schau, deltager i 2. slesvigske krig. Brødrene har koner og børn i København, og gennem deres breve fortælles historien om livet som soldat i det iskolde og undergangsprægede felttog, som den danske hær er ude i i vinteren 1864. Et felttog, der kulminerer i Slaget ved Dybbøl den 18. april 1864. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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