Are You Afraid?
Documentary
Overview
This documentary examines a feature of Danish life in the late '60s and early '70s: the political commune. In a series of stiff and unrevealing interviews with members of the Kloevedal Commune, "Mao's Pleasure," director Carlssen seeks to discover why they have chosen to live communally. Turning the tables on the director, members of the commune also interview people who live ordinary, middle-class lives, ostensibly to find out why they chose their "lifestyles." Other footage concerns the Annisse Commune, a less radical organization which predates the Kloevedal Commune by decades. A highlight of the film is an interview with a very old woman who lives with and talks chiefly with her cats.
Ebbe Kløvedal Reich
Ebbe Kløvedal Reich
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Ebbe Kløvedal Reich
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Lene Kløvedal
Lene Kløvedal
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Lene Kløvedal
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Nils Kløvedal
Nils Kløvedal
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Nils Kløvedal
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Hanne Kløvedal
Hanne Kløvedal
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Hanne Kløvedal
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Knud Kløvedal
Knud Kløvedal
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Knud Kløvedal
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Mette Kløvedal
Mette Kløvedal
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Mette Kløvedal
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Kristian Kløvedal
Kristian Kløvedal
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Kristian Kløvedal
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Henning Carlsen
Henning Carlsen
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Henning Carlsen
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Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen
Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen
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Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen
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Jørgen Hatting
Jørgen Hatting
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Jørgen Hatting
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