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Lars-Martin Sørensen
A History of Danish Cinema, 11/2021Book Chapter
This chapter focuses on the manoeuvres of the Danish film trade in the face of the German occupation from April 1940 to May 1945, as it played out in the executive offices and behind the cameras. I argue that, generally speaking, the Danish film bosses allowed business interests to overrule ideological concerns and that they did so with impunity. The chapter is based on extensive archival research in German and Danish archives and draws on my previously published book Dansk film under nazismen (Danish Film during Nazism, Sørensen 2014, untranslated). The Danish feature that gathered the highest critical acclaim during
