Spurve under taget (1944)

Director: Charles Tharnæs

The action takes place in the bleak, overcrowded, and for many too small apartments in one of Copenhagen's bridge districts, where there are both good citizens, but also people who live a shadowy existence. Up in the attic, Mathilde lives alone with her little daughter Vibeke. She is the result of a coincidence, as is so often the case when a young girl from the provinces comes to the Capital. Mathilde comes from Vordingborg, she went to the city to look for work. At the boarding house where she stayed, she made a friend Ellen, a rather frivolous and indifferent young girl.

Cast

Karin Nellemose

Mathilde, en ung ensom Pige

Ebbe Rode

Carl, en ung ensom Mand

John Price

Olsen, en vred Hundemand

Valdemar Møller

Fru Olsen, Olsens flittige Kone

Helle Virkner

En halvvoksen Pige

Jørn Jeppesen

Ernst, Sømand

Jens Kjeldby

Viggo, Ernsts glade Kammerat

Tove Bang

Ellen, Mathildes ligeglade Veninde

Henry Nielsen

En Gaardmand