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.