Belma

Retrospective Children's and Youth, Denmark 1995, 75 Min.

Belma

15-year-old Rasmus lives alone with his father in Copenhagen. He loves video games so much he just can’t get enough of them. And so the lost wallet he finds in his father’s antique shop is just the thing he needs. Next day, Belma, the owner of the wallet, turns up. She and her father Josip have fled the war in Bosnia and are living on a refugee ship in the harbour. Rasmus falls in love with Belma and learns from her what it means to live as a refugee in a foreign country. The horrors of war come home to the refugees when a man arrives on the ship whom they recognise as the brutal commandant of a Serbian prison camp in Bosnia. The refugees want revenge. Only Belma’s father calls for calm. When he tries to prevent a lynching, the police arrest him as the main suspect. Rasmus and Belma now have to prove Josip’s innocence. For its sensitive and balanced portrayal of a harrowing subject, “Belma” won the 1995 Children's and Youth Film Prize of the Nordic Film Institutes.

Director Lars Hesselholdt

Screenplay Pascal Lonhay

Cast Esmina Isovic (Belma), Simon Holk (Rasmus), Rade Serbedzija (Josip, Belmas Vater), Jess Ingerslev (Erik, Rasmus’ Vater), Börje Ahlstedt (Schiffsbetreuer), Nastja Arcel, Zdenko Jelcic, Morten Iversen, Jesper Milsted

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