Novel
De røde heste
Not translated into English
Morten Korch · 1943
Synopsis
Ole Offor is leaving agricultural school when his fiancée leaves him for another; heartbroken, he thinks of emigrating to Canada. A call sends him to Enekær, the farm of Anders Munk, a childhood friend of his father: Munk is dying, his daughter Bente, injured in the leg in an accident, cannot run the farm alone, and Stefan Willers, a man brutal with animals, is waiting to buy it. Munk had built a stable and a track for his red horses, in the hope of winning a trotting derby worth fifteen thousand kroner.
Context
The novel was published in 1943 and belongs to those of the author's books that seek a motionless time, that of the good old days, rather than a precise period. It was brought to the screen in 1950 by Alice O'Fredericks and Jon Iversen, with Poul Reichhardt and Tove Maës, and this adaptation opens a long series of films drawn from his books. The novel has been reissued up to the present day, notably in large print.
Who it is for
A regional novel, in Danish; it can be read without any particular knowledge of the country, in simple language.
Prizes and reception
One of its author's best-loved novels; its 1950 adaptation drew about two and a half million viewers, the greatest success in Danish cinema.
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