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Carmen Curlers

Carmen Curlers

★ 6.8/10•2022•12•Drama
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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.

Andreas Garfield · Screenplay

Mette Heeno · Creator

Mette Heeno · Screenplay

Anna Bro · Screenplay

StatusReturning Series
LanguageDA
First Air DateSep 30, 2022

Episodes

Episode 1 - Summer (August 1963)E155m

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.

Sep 30, 2022

Episode 2 - Summer (August/September 1963)E254m

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.

Oct 7, 2022

Episode 3 - Summer/Fall (September 1963)E354m

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.

Oct 14, 2022

Episode 4 - Fall (October 1963)E454m

Fall (October 1963)

Axel borrows a million kroner from the bank to build a factory that will produce Carmen Curlers for the whole world. Now he just needs the customers. But the rumor about the downturn from the beauty fair has spread throughout Denmark.

Oct 21, 2022

Episode 5 - Fall (November 1963)E558m

Fall (November 1963)

The Carmen Curlers factory opens, and Birthe has become HR manager. Axel looks forward to the Christmas sale cementing Carmen Curlers as an indispensable part of everyday life for all women in the Nordics.

Oct 28, 2022

Episode 6 - Fall (Two Days at the End of November 1963)E660m

Fall (Two Days at the End of November 1963)

Curlers are being spat out at the busy Carmen factory, but for Frans there is not much to do. That's why he takes a job from the fashion photographer Benjamin in Copenhagen, where he has to do the hair of a French film star.

Nov 4, 2022

Episode 7 - Winter/Spring (1963/1964)E758m

Winter/Spring (1963/1964)

With the expectation of a spectacular Christmas sale, Axel decides to win Tove back. It will not be an easy task, however, because Tove goes her own way. Birthe's Christmas is ruined by an unpleasant surprise that forces her to seek help.

Nov 11, 2022

Episode 8 - Spring (1964)E860m

Spring (1964)

Axel and Frans are hugely successful in Paris and return home with an order for 10,000 curler sets. The order must be delivered within 14 days, which puts the Carmen ladies under tremendous pressure. Jørgen receives good news from the doctor.

Nov 18, 2022

Actors

Morten Hee Andersen

Morten Hee Andersen

Axel

Maria Rossing

Maria Rossing

Birthe

Rosalinde Mynster

Rosalinde Mynster

Tove

Nicolai Jørgensen

Nicolai Jørgensen

Frans

Fanny Leander Bornedal

Fanny Leander Bornedal

Kathrine

Christian Tafdrup

Christian Tafdrup

Poul

Lars Ranthe

Lars Ranthe

Jørgen

Mille Lehfeldt

Mille Lehfeldt

Vita

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