Probably each of you has been treated unfair by a teacher or even put down. But what happens to Frits is beyond your imagination.
The story takes place in the end of the 1960s in a Danish village. Due to a nonthingness, Frits is called to the headmaster where he gets his punishment. That he almost tears off Frits' ear doesn't seem to bother the headmaster. And nobody else. Frits is not the first one he mishandels. This school is at war. One against the other. Everybody knows and everybody condones it.
But there are gleams of hope at the new school. For example Freddie, the new music teacher who throws the old songbooks into the corner and lets his pupils experience the blues, the sound of liberty. To Frits this venturesome longhaired teacher becomes a leaguer in his fight against the daily oppression. Frits idol is Martin Luther King, every day he listens to his famous speech "I have a dream...", until he knows it by heart.
The situation acuminates. It seems impossible to break through the circle of violence and fear. Will it be possible? I won't tell, although it's really hard not to.

It's difficult to put my enthusiasm in words. The film does not only move under your skin, it tears it open, thanks to the veracity of the actors.
The whole cinema wiped their eyes and the final applause for director Niels Arden Oplev - who showed us his own story - was earsplitting and well deserved.
Even hours later the film won't leave you alone. It shows that courage and untamed willpower will take you closer to your dreams.

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