We Shall Overcome (film)

We Shall Overcome
Film release poster
Drømmen
Directed by	Niels Arden Oplev
Screenplay by	Niels Arden Oplev Steen Bille
Produced by	Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Starring	Bent Mejding Janus Dissing Rathke Anders W. Berthelsen Jens Jørn Spottag
Cinematography	Lars Vestergaard
Edited by	Søren B. Ebbe
Music by	Jacob Groth
Production company	Zentropa Entertainments11
Distributed by	Nordisk Film Biografdistribution
Release date	24 March 2006 (2006-03-24) (Denmark)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish

Drømmen (Danish "The Dream", English: We Shall Overcome) is a 2006 Danish film based on a true story about a young boy's crusade against a dictatorial headmaster of the "old school", in 1969 Denmark.

The film is directed by Danish screenwriter and film director Niels Arden Oplev and stars Bent Mejding and Anders W. Berthelsen.^{[citation needed]} It won sixteen awards in 2006 and 2007.

The story opens in the Danish countryside of 1969.^[1] Denmark and the rest of the world are changing rapidly but Lindum-Svendsen, the headmaster of the rural school, hasn't noticed.

Frits is a young boy who spends his summer holidays watching the family's first television, and is influenced by the American civil rights movement.^[2] The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968, coupled with his own dreams of a better life, have given Frits courage and a desire for rebellion.^[3] The dictatorial Lindum-Svendsen steps over the line while punishing Frits, drawing the ire of youthful new teacher Freddie Svale, which encourages Frits to take up battle against the headmaster.^[4]

• Bent Mejding as headmaster Lindum-Svendsen
• Janus Dissing Rathke as Frits Johansen
• Anders W. Berthelsen as Freddie Svale
• Jens Jørn Spottag as Peder, Frits' father
• Peter Hesse Overgaard [da; no; sv] as Erling
• Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis [da; no] as Stine, Frits' mother
• Gyrd Løfqvist as Frits' grandfather
• Elin Reimer as Frits' grandmother
• Steen Stig Lommer [af; da; no; sv] as teacher Olsen
• Kurt Ravn as school doctor
• Peter Schrøder [da; de; no; sv] as sexton
• Sarah Juel Werner as Iben
• Daniel Ørum as Troels
• Lasse Borg as Søren
• Joy-Maria Frederiksen as Iben's mother

The film has won sixteen awards in 2006 and 2007.^{[citation needed]}

• We Shall Overcome at IMDb
• Drømmen (We Shall Overcome) at Rotten Tomatoes
• We Shall Overcome in the Danish Film Database
• English film trailer of We Shall Overcome
• Danish film trailer of We Shall Overcome