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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2015-05-16 04:35 pm

One is dead, and is mad, and I have quite forgotten

*Drum roll* BBC4 Saturday night once again brings us must-see Scandinavian programme, this time, costume drama.

1864! A year to echo down the ages. 1864! A year of blood and infamy, of heroism, of folly, of despair!

1864, the year of the Second Schleswig War!

*screeches to a halt*

Yes, it's an eight-part epic costume drama on the Schleswig-Holstein question, subject of about 15 minutes at A-level lo those many years ago. It stars the usual suspects of Danish TV, and has prompted dialect!fail wank on the internet. I can't wait.

[identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com 2015-05-16 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It starts back at the end of the earlier Prusso-Danish War, doesn't it? Lots of room for background and Danish and German nationalists debating over weeks...

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2015-05-16 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure when it starts, but the trailer does seem to imply lots of nationalist debating* - I just hope they tell us which year it is!

*Meanwhile in 2015, Mr Outraged of Jutland complains on the internet that non-soenderjysk actors cannot possibly understand the True Meaning of 1864. Seriously.