Andrew Pulver 

We Shall Overcome

Andrew Pulver: A likeable, heart-on-its-sleeve Danish film.
  
  

We Shall Overcome
Cutting loose... We Shall Overcome Photograph: PR

A likeable, heart-on-its-sleeve Danish film that's headlining the Children's Film Festival in London. Fresh-faced Frits (Janus Dissing Rathke) runs into trouble with his tyrannical headmaster and is threatened with expulsion; this being the late 1960s, Frits takes inspiration from Martin Luther King and the civil rights struggle as he tries to turn the tables on his oppressor. It's all very straightforward stuff, but works well.

 

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