The Shadow in My Eye (2021)

Original title

Skyggen i mit øje

Directed by

Ole Bornedal

Genre

drama film, war film, historical film, historical drama

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

16

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 554 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a British bombing raid on Copenhagen goes wrong and mistakenly bombs a school full of children. The film follows several characters in the city as they experience this disaster.

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What happens

The Shadow in My Eye (Danish: Skyggen i mit øje), also known as The Bombardment, is a 2021 Danish war drama film written and directed by Ole Bornedal. The film deals with, among other things, Operation Carthage carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War, where one of the planes crashed near Institut Jeanne d'Arc, causing the school to be misidentified as the target and also bombed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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