Emma's Shadow

When she hears her mother horrified by the Lindbergh baby abduction affair, 11-year-old Emma has an audacious idea. She is from an affluent family and longs for her parent to give her attention, so she decides to stage her kidnapping. While the police are looking for her, Emma is welcomed into the house of Malthe, a sewer worker, in one of the poor neighborhoods of the city. It is precisely here that she receives the warmth and love she so craves. This is a noir version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which won the Danish Academy Award and, thanks to the direction of Kragh-Jacobsen, manages to play on the heartstrings.