On Our Own

A critically acclaimed movie by Lone Scherfig selected for the 1998 Berlinale.

Linda is a single mother of three and has to go to prison to serve a minor sentence for shoplifting. The children are not happy at the prospect of spending the waiting time at an orphanage and they persuade their mother to convincing people that the kids’ father are looking out for them until she returns. It is a lie that the children have a hard time keeping.

Film awards:

• CineKid Film Award – CineKid 1998 (Winner)

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Release date:

06/02/1998

Genre:

Family film

Time:

74 min

Censorship:

All

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When Linda, the mother of Kasper (11 years old), Sara (8) and Julie (5), has to spend - what she thinks will be - a short time behind bars for shop lifting, she is forced to leave her three kids home alone in their apartment, pretending that the kids' father is also living in the apartment taking care of them. Being without adult supervision for a while does not frighten the three children. They are looking forward to spending some time alone, being able to do all the fun stuff that their mother - or any other adult person, for that matter - would not let them do. IT'S PARTY TIME. But even though they do everything they can to make it look as if there is an adult living with them - taking care of them - people around them are starting to get suspicious wondering what really goes on in the apartment...