DR2: Quality Documentaries
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Summer time… and the Danish television traditionally shows fine documentaries. On the only channel worth watching in Denmark nowadays: DR2.
On tuesday (7.7 8.30pm) on Dokumania, the neo-classic by Werner Herzog ”Little Dieter needs to Fly” is broadcast. On wednesday (8.7 10.50pm) the Danes are invited to watch Eva Mulvad’s ”Enemies of Happiness” (photo), the film about the courageous Malalai Joya, who is followed while she is running for parliament in a campaign that takes place behind a burka.
And on thursday (9.7 10.50pm) the newest production of the three is scheduled: ”Young Freud in Gaza” by PeÅ Holmqvist and Susanne Khardalian. Here is a quote from the review made on this site:
An excellent filmic inside look at everyday life and problems as they are met and seen primarily through the eyes of young Ayed, who is the only field psychologist in northern Gaza. What a character this young man is for a film. And how charming he is in his philanthropic mission: to help things get better for patients in an area full of hot political problems. The couple filmed during two years 2006-2008, when Gaza was isolated from the world, and the film has a harmonic and peaceful rythm that gives space for the characters to be developed for a viewer, who switches between laughter and grief. A film that will go all over…. and to be added: has even more actuality than when it was made. After the Israeli massacre.
