Drengene fra Sankt Petri (1991)
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Tomas Villum Jensen, Morten Buch Jørgensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Christian Grønvall, Karl Bille, Søren Hytholm Jensen, Joachim Knop
When Otto joins a Copenhagen schoolboys’ prank club, he pushes its members toward more serious resistance under German occupation.
The story
During the German occupation, six Danish high school students spend their free time playing pranks and meet in a club based in the attic of St. Peter’s Church in Copenhagen. Their routine changes when Otto joins them, wanting the group to do something more serious than boys’ pranks. The boys begin stealing weapons and blowing up factories and railway lines.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The story is loosely based on the history of the Danish sabotage group the Churchill Club in Aalborg, one of the first organized resistance groups in Denmark during the German occupation. At the beginning of the film, we meet six Danish high school students who spend their time after school playing pranks. The boys have their own club, based in the attic of St. Peter’s Church in Copenhagen. One day, a new boy joins their group of friends: Otto, who wants the club to do something more serious than boys’ pranks. They begin stealing weapons and blowing up factories and railway lines. One day, they are discovered by the occupying forces. All of them are arrested and imprisoned, except Otto, who manages to escape to neutral Sweden.
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