Storyline
This festive comedy has a theme song that was incredibly popular in its day – but which is missing a verse! The penultimate verse ends as follows: "...there were 39 sailors and one girl, and that's why the censors deleted the last verse." In 1965, it was new and very daring for a girl to go to sea in the merchant navy. But fortunately, Peer Guldbrandsen and director Annelise Reenberg saw that girls also had a future at sea when they wrote the film's screenplay based on Else Boyes' best-selling novel. The moral frown is replaced by a big smile when the pretty radio operator, Else, boards the M/S Warrigal, owned by the magnificent shipowner, Wilhelmine Jacobsen. The trip from Brønshøj to Bangkok – and back – becomes as festive as an archetypal Danish male society can manage when a pretty girl destroys their age-old traditions.
Cast & Crew
Birgit Sadolin
Else Jensen
Lead
Karl Stegger
Otto Jensen
Morten Grunwald
Peter Eberhardt
Axel Strøbye
Captain Barker
Ove Sprogøe
Andersen
Poul Bundgaard
Ship's Cook Alfred
Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen
Wilhelmine Jacobsen
Bjørn Puggaard-Müller
Chief Officer Karlson
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Annelise Reenberg's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Een pige og 39 sømænd is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
