The summer of 1941. The German occupying power has commandeered the neighbouring hotel but that does certainly not keep the regular guests away. As Edward Weyse says: If we just pretend they are not there, then they are not there. The popular actor is otherwise writing his memoirs, Merchant Madsen is keen to rediscover the joys of eroticism, all the while Mrs. Frigh has complet...
1940: The seaside hotel opens for a new summer with Amanda as new owner. Denmark was invaded April 9. Previous years' guests come, partly to get away from the Germans. They all deal with problems from the German occupation.
Set in the midsummer of 1932, the broker August Molin and his Swedish born wife Alma arrive at the beach hotel. They arrive directly from the Klitgaarden in Skagen, where the king, Christian X, spends the summer. Morten returns from Copenhagen, where he and merchant Madsen are building houses together.
It is summer once again, and Mrs Andersen and the girls are opening the hotel for a new season. The year is 1930 and the World War is lurking outside the country boarders. But it is quite different matters, which preoccupy the guests. Merchant Madsen is fighting to recover his position after he went bankrupt last year. Mrs Aurland is afraid her husband will discover the truth -...
Badehotellet is the story about the guests and staff at a beach hotel by the North Sea sand dunes. At the heart of the story is the lives of three young people, the chambermaid Fie, the merchant's daughter Amanda, and the local fisherman Morten. Their fates are intertwined, and their stories are about emancipating themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf...
