Alissa Simon Film Critic Danish director-writer Malou Reymann’s sophomore feature, “Unruly,” premiered in the Toronto festival, and is an affecting drama set in the 1930s about a rebellious teen forced into an institution, the real-life Sprogø Women’s Home. At a time when women’s control of their bodies is under attack, your film carries a special resonance.
Is what took place at the Kellersk Institute on Sprogø island widely known in Denmark? Among young people, very few know about the Sprogø Women’s Home and the whole historical context.
And they are angry that this wasn’t something taught in school. The whole political aspect of the sterilization laws is not something people know about.
Denmark was actually the first European country to make eugenic-based sterilization laws, so when Nazi Germany made their laws they looked to the Danish laws.
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