Synopsis
The Girl with the Needle (Pigen med nålen, 2024) is a Danish-Polish-Swedish historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Magnus von Horn based the film on the case of Dagmar Overby, convicted in early-1920s Denmark for murdering infants entrusted to her care — one of the most disturbing criminal records of the period.
Victoria Carmen Sonne plays a young woman left unemployed and pregnant in post-WWI Copenhagen who falls under the protection of a charismatic older woman, portrayed by Trine Dyrholm. The arrangement looks like rescue: a quiet underground adoption service for children nobody wants. Then a discovery shifts everything, and Dyrholm's warmth curdles into something far colder.
Shot in stark black and white, von Horn frames the story as a portrait of a city that needed not to see what was happening in its poorest doorways. That implication is where the real discomfort sits. Stream The Girl with the Needle (2024) on iFILM.
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