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- Alison Graham
Danish prime minister Birgitte Nyborg is in Afghanistan for a morale-boosting meeting with her country’s troops. But the murderous realities of war intrude leaving Birgitte (Sidse Babett Knudsen) pondering the first in a new set of Borgen-dilemmas – should she withdraw her forces? Which is what her heart tells her. Or let them stay because the job isn’t done? She is at the eye of the vortex as her advisers pull her hither and thither and the press – in the form of the world’s worst reporter, Katrine – watch her every move.
It’s nearly a year since we saw Birgitte elected statsminister and her marriage to the forbearing Phillip (former Killing star Mikael Birkkjær) end at his agonised request. Yet Birgitte can’t quite bring herself to sign the divorce papers. This could become a thudding great message about how it’s lonely at the top, particularly for a woman, but Borgen is too clever for that. And so is Birgitte, the ultimate pragmatist, when in the second of
a double bill she has to choose an EU commissioner. Never has coalition politics been so gripping.
About this programme
1/10. New series. A year after her separation from Philip, Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg visits troops in Afghanistan, but has to be evacuated when the Taliban launch an offensive against several Danish camps - killing the highest number of soldiers so far in the war. Meanwhile, with her private life in turmoil, Nyborg continues to put off signing her divorce papers. Danish political drama, starring Sidse Babett Knudsen and Birgitte Hjort Sorensen.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Torben Friis
- Soren Malling
- Hans Christian Thorsen
- Bjarne Henriksen
- Bent Sejro
- Lars Knutzon
- Michael Laugesen
- Peter Mygind
- Birgitte Nyborg Christensen
- Sidse Babett Knudsen
- Hanne Holm
- Benedikte Hansen
- Katrine Fonsmark
- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
- Kasper Juul
- Pilou Asbaek
- Philip Christensen
- Mikael Birkkjaer
- Laura Christensen
- Freja Riemann
- Lars Hesselboe
- Soren Spanning
- Jorgen Hedegard
- Olaf Johannessen
- Lotte
- Rikke Lylloff
Crew
- Director
- Jannik Johansen
- Producer
- Camilla Hammerich
- Writer
- Adam Price
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