Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.
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Kasper Emanuel Stæger
Kasper
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Taxa
Clara Johanne Simonsen
Sara
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Lone Scherfig
Michael Obel
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Gerd Tjur
Pernille Kaae Høier
Julie
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Jesus & Josefine
Oskar and Josefine
Jørgen Kastrup
Jesper Boas Smith
Søren Gam
Ann Eleonora Jørgensen
Linda
Known for
The Killing
Elves
Dirk Brüel
Martha Christensen
Lone Scherfig Director · Jørgen Kastrup Writer Martha Christensen Author
First release February 6, 1998 · Produced in Sweden, Denmark · Production Thura Film, Mellan Film
Production
Obel Film
Production
Thura Film
Production
Mellan Film
Production
Det Danske Filminstitut
Production
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Production
Sweden · Denmark
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Original title
Når mor kommer hjem...
Original language
Danish
Spoken on screen
Danish
Release dates
Denmark · February 6, 1998
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Finland
August 22, 2000 · Espoo Film Festival
Iceland
September 25, 1999
Iran
October 21, 2000 · Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
Netherlands
February 20, 1999
Norway
April 24, 1998
Singapore
April 1, 2000 · Singapore Danish Film Festival
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