The year is 1963. A women’s liberation movement is underway. In a flat in Copenhagen, we meet one of the biggest female writers, Tove Ditlevsen, and her husband, the sadistic news editor in chief Victor Andreasen. Toves talent is indisputable, only her husband’s destructive envy surpasses it. Whilst she uses her authorship to give a voice to suppressed women, providing them with courage to leave behind husbands and the patriarchal structures of society, Victor´s only talent is to sell tabloids to the people. Tove looks straight through her husband’s inferiority complex, and yet she puts up with his humiliating behaviour and his violence. He is the one who controls her drug abuse and repeated admissions to the psychiatric ward – the only place in which she truly finds peace to write. Their power struggle needs an audience, and on this very day they’re expecting a lunch guest, the promising young author Klaus Rifbjerg, who celebrates the modern woman. Klaus believes they’ll be talking about literature, what he doesn’t know is that a blood bath awaits him. ‘Tove’s Room’ is a woman's story about the price of her submission.
Instruktør: Martin Pieter Zandvliet
I 1960’erne lever Tove Ditlevsen sammen med Ekstra Bladets chefredaktør, Victor Andreasen, i et stormombrust ægteskab, der har sin helt egen særlige dynamik, og hvor der er kort fra kærlighed til had, fra elskelige komplimenter til ond sarkasme. Da den unge forfatter Klaus Rifbjerg kommer til frokost for at diskutere deres fælles lidenskab, litteratur, har han ingen ide om, hvad der venter ham. Men inden længe bliver han en brik i deres ægteskabelige magtspil, hvor alle kneb gælder.
Medvirkende: Paprika Steen, Lars Brygmann, Joachim Fjelstrup, Sonja Oppenhagen
Danmark, 2023
DCP, 74 min.
Engelske undertekster
Tilladt for børn over 15 år