The Shadow In My Eye (2021) on Netflix
In 1945 Copenhagen, a boy named Henry has lost his voice and boards with his cousin Rigmor, who attends a school run by nuns. The RAF plans to bomb Gestapo headquarters.
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Plot summary
A teenage boy named Henry loses his ability to speak after an RAF Mosquito strafes a car of bridesmaids over occupied Denmark, and his parents send him to Copenhagen hoping it will help him. He boards with his cousin Rigmor and her family. Rigmor and her friend Eva go to Institut Jeanne d'Arc, a Catholic school with French lessons, where Sister Hanna heads the nuns, and the girls help Henry face his fear of walking under open skies. The Danish resistance asks the RAF to bomb the Shellhus, the Gestapo headquarters, to free imprisoned resistance members and destroy its documents.
Cast
- Ester Birchas Rigmor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Shadow In My Eye (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- After the family of the real RAF pilot Peter Kleboe complained that the film showed him killing innocent women, they demanded an apology in the Danish newspaper Berlingske on 11 November 2021 and that the film be recut; the next day producer Miso Film said editorial changes would be made.
SPOILER
Director Ole Bornedal claimed a key final scene came from a real conversation between a nun and a dying child, but filmmaker Martin Sundstrøm found it false: the talk was between two nuns and no dying child was involved. Bornedal admitted the poor research might cast doubt on his film's accuracy.
