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Director: Rumle Hammerich
Cast: Simon Dahl Thaulow, Peter Steen, Stine Fischer Christensen, Annemarie Malle Klixbüll
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life.
Young Andersen is a 2005 two-part Danish television serial directed by Rumle Hammerich and co-written by Hammerich and Ulf Stark. It chronicles the formative boarding school years of fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen and his subsequent arrival at Copenhagen where he struggles for success and recognition. It is produced principally by Nordisk Film, while additional production funding was provided by SVT and NRK.
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