Summary
In After the Wedding, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) who has been caring for abandoned street children in Bombay for many years, is summoned from the orphanage to the home of wealthy philanthropist Jorgen Hanssen (Rolf Lassgard) in Copenhagen. Hanssen can support and expand the work Jacob is doing by making a large financial contribution to the project. Jacob is reluctant to leave the children and thinks the trip to Copenhagen is unnecessary. He feels much more at home in India as a part of the close-knit relationships of the orphan children.
"Is it because the houses are so far apart that the people are far apart?" one of the children asks him, referring to the people of Copenhagen, and Jacob says yes, the wealthy are "idiots." But Hanssen insists on meeting Jacob before making the contribution, and Jacob does need the money to keep the children fed, clothed, educated and off the streets. Jacob arrives in Copenhagen just in time to attend the wedding of Hanssen's daughter, Anna ([Stine Fischer Christensen]), and meet her mother, Helene (Sidse Babette Knudsen). It's an invitation no one in his situation would want to miss, for at the wedding, he learns there is much more brewing here than simply a potential monetary gift.See the full content of this document
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Change Your Family
CHANGE YOUR FAMILY
Emotional extremes and mystery characterize this Best Foreign Film nomineeAFTER THE WEDDING (R)Directed by Susanne BierStars Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgard, Stine Fischer ChristensenOpens Friday at Flicks(Danish with ...See the full content of this document
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