The 28th annual New York Jewish Film Festival will take place January 9 to 22, 2019, featuring new work as well as restored classics.
A Fortunate Man
A Fortunate Man
NAME OF FILM: A FORTUNATE MAN
DIRECTOR(S): Bille August
STARRING: Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Benjamin Kitter
GENRE: Drama Film
SYNOPSIS: A gifted but self-destructive young man leaves his suffocating Lutheran upbringing in the country for the metropolitan Copenhagen of the 1880s. An engineer with progressive ideas, he is welcomed by a wealthy Jewish family and assimilates himself into their opulent milieu, embarking on a journey of personal and professional ambition that teeters on the razor’s edge between triumph and catastrophe.