Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges.
Liv Ullmann
Writer, Director
Peter Poulsen
Writer
Karen-Lise Mynster
Sofie
Ghita Nørby
Frederikke
Erland Josephson
Sofie's Father
Jesper Christensen
Hojby
Torben Zeller
Jonas
Henning Moritzen
Frederick Philipson
Stig Hoffmeyer
Gottlieb
Kirsten Rolffes
Jonas' Mother
Lotte Hermann
Aunt Pulle
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