The film is actually true crime — or rather, it touches on a ghastly real chapter in Danish history. (The case is that of Dagmar Overbye, should you wish to investigate.) But grim fact is woven into ...
Adapted from the real-life story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye, Magnus von Horn’s gothic fairytale is set in post-World War I Copenhagen, but its horrifying reality does not feel so far from ...