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Album 09th March 2008, at. 20:00 on DR1

‘Album’ is a new Danish drama about three families and three fates, which cross each others tracks through three decades. Hella Joof shows her grave side up in a colorful tale of longing and love for the roots back and fight for a decent life.

‘Album’ is based on a piece of land that will be sold. When the enterprising William Rolsted buys an old farmhouse, tears it down and divides it up to the cottage grounds that changed the lives of three different families. The series follows the three families from the early 70s until the beginning of the new millennium.

These are three very different families, but have in common is that each family is a son. And the three sons are the show’s focal point. Through their personal stories give ‘Album’ a description of a generation that apparently got all the options, yet was so shaky ground that it had to struggle to define its own values as best it could – and there were no special flattering name: Reach generation.

‘Album’ is a series about people who meet, crossing each other’s tracks, love each other, leave each other or barely detect each other. During the story teeming with grandparents, Marxists, expatriates, stolen kisses, bikers, drug dealers and welfare recipients, yuppies and small, polite suburban punks.

But the centerpiece is the three boys Lars Rolsted, Jon Olufsen and Martin Lund Jensen.

Rolsted Family
William Rolsted is the family’s undisputed leader. An enterprising man with many irons in the fire – and fire in the iron, not less. He is married to the indolent, meek Musse, whose main task in life is to make sure their children William and Tess, Lars and Katja and their common home.

Rolsted family home is a culture loosely homes characterized by rapid, new money. A home without proximity and with an undertone of brutality. A home where William’s fascination of the eldest daughter Tess has incestuous undertones, and where William’s adultery with the women in the circle game slows Musse ‘s zest for life.

The eldest daughter Tess is one of those that bloom early and then fade before she is age twenty. Beautiful, hard Tess, who early learned to use his sexuality to gain advantages.

Lars is the son who never have the opportunity to cultivate their own interests or to live his dream because of his father’s eternal chieftain, criticism and indiscriminate violence. Lars coming bad start. Lars with the big heart and love enough to account for all those who need it most. But not quite the same talent to elicit love with his surroundings.

And then there’s Katja, the silent child with the big feelings that she is completely alone. Katja, who looks at his family with a surprise, which gradually turns into disgust.

Family Rolsted played by Jens Jørn Spottag (William), Bodil Jorgensen (Musse), Jonathan Tulestedt (Lars as a child), Sebastian Jessen (Lars as young), Carsten Bjørn Lund (Lars as an adult), Lark Winther Andersen (Tess) and Mia Lyhne (Katja)

Olufsen Family
Jon’s father and mother, Charlie and Margaret, met at university. Two young leftists who found each other in a common understanding about dialectical materialism and the struggle for proletarian dictatorship. However, a somewhat half-hearted fight for upper-class girl Margrethe him. Soren contrast comes from the country and is the sole heir to a farm, he is not interested in acquiring. This implies that the farm will be demolished and the land sold for a song to William Rolsted which divide it to homes, which will benefit the middle class, including family Lund Jensen. Soren’s father and mother are installed in a small apartment, and David may breathe a sigh of relief at having severed the connection to the rural proletariat, or it is high on his agenda to save.

But his son Jon senses danger failure. Since all disputes are between Charlie and Margaret. Soren justified jealousy, Margrethe incipient liberation and long red wine evenings in town. And the divorce.

A fundamental lack of faith in the constellation man – woman become entrenched in Jon, and the decision to free himself from lust of the flesh and become a ‘good man’ takes shape.

Familen Olufsen played by Lotte Andersen (Margaret), Henry Prip (Soren), Lucas M. Billing (Jon as a child), Ash Bang (Jon as a young man) and Benjamin Kitter (Jon as an adult).

Lund Jensen Family
Familien Lund Jensen is a classic middle-class nuclear family with father and mother and two children, Martin and Thomas. With a father who dreams of a better life and have the skills and luck to carry them out. And with a mother who lives for his family and belonging absolute last generation of housewives. It is a family of his own quiet way acquire the property by the general growth in the community creates opportunity. A ‘healthy family’, where the author makes himself available to offspring, creating the framework that makes Martin and Thomas have the opportunity to choose their own path.

Martin daydreaming and find a place in post-punk. He will be a writer and married to Gertrude, the beautiful woman he has met. He will finally become an author, but it will not go as easily as he has dreamed about.

Familien Lund Jensen played by Henry Lykkegaard (Preben), Julie Carlsen (Kirsten), Lucas Enders (Martin as a child), Allan Hyde (Martin as a young man) and Christian Tafdrup (Martin as an adult).

Behind the ‘Albums’
‘Album’ is Directed by Hella Joof, while Bo Mr. Hansen has written the script, based on Benn Q. Holm’s novel. The other participants in the ‘Album’ include Kjeld Nørgaard, Marie Louise Coninck, Preben Harris, Ellen Hillingsø, Morten Hauch-Fausbøll, Ditte Gråbøl, Nicolas Bro, Morten Suurballe, Felix Qvist Møller, Anders Bobek, Mette Gregersen, Laura Bach, Benedikte Hansen and Jonathan Schmidt.

The music was composed by Kasper Eistrup and Asger Techau and the series is produced by Fine & Mellow Productions, when Producer Thomas Gammeltoft, for DR, in cooperation with DR Fiction.

When Album will premiere on DR1 9th March at. 20:00 testing the DR for the first time visual interpretation for blind and visually impaired, which consequently would have the opportunity to follow one of DR’s popular drama series. Read more on visual interpretation here.

source: DRPresse