In the world of Danish true crime, one name looms large over all the rest: Dagmar Overbye. Between 1913 and 1920, Overbye operated a fraudulent adoption agency that claimed to find homes for babies ...

Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) is utterly alone in Copenhagen. She assumed her husband, Peter, died in the Great War until he turned up unannounced and horrifically disfigured — she turned him away. No ...

The real-life murderer who inspired “The Girl With the Needle” was “a monster,” said the actress who plays her, “but the movie is also about showing you her struggles.” By Beatrice Loayza In 1920s ...

Psychological horror based on real events is set at an adoption agency in 1919 Denmark Dagmar is based on a real historical figure, Dagmar Overbye. Hers is a name that may be unfamiliar to ...

Magnus von Horn never wanted to make a biopic of a serial killer: The Poland-based filmmaker finds that morally strange. But when he was approached to direct a film about Dagmar Overbye, a Danish ...

Magnus von Horn’s sophomore feature Sweat earned its director a spot in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020, after his debut, The Here After, played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. But the festival of ...

Director Magnus von Horn’s “The Girl with the Needle” has been nominated for best international film at the 2025 Oscars, continuing an impressive Danish nomination streak. (Lukasz Bak/The Danish Film ...

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Magnus von Horn never wanted to make a biopic of a serial killer: The Poland-based filmmaker finds that morally strange. But when he was approached to direct a film about Dagmar Overbye, a Danish ...