Carmen Curlers
In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.
Overview
In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.
Mette Heeno
Creator / EP
Maja Dyekjær
Producer
Episodes
1. Summer (August 1963)
Axel Byvang has an idea to work his way up from poor conditions: a device that can give modern women a smart hairstyle in 10 minutes. But the first experiments in a humble basement room go horribly wrong.
2. Summer (August/September 1963)
With the country's biggest beauty fair just around the corner, Axel enlists the help of Tove and Frans. Birthe's husband Jørgen is diagnosed with leukemia, which only an expensive new form of chemotherapy in Germany can cure.
3. Summer/Fall (September 1963)
The curler scandal at the beauty fair has gone around Denmark. Axel is out of business and now has 1000 defective curler sets that no one wants to buy. Birthe tries to raise money for Jørgen's chemotherapy.
Cast & Crew
Morten Hee Andersen
Axel
Maria Rossing
Birthe
Rosalinde Mynster
Tove
Nicolai Jørgensen
Frans
Fanny Leander Bornedal
Kathrine
Christian Tafdrup
Poul
