Krøniken
Encyclopedia
Krøniken is a Danish
television drama
which aired on Sunday evenings between January 2004 and January 2007. The 22-episode series relates the lives of two fictional families during the historical development of the Danmarks Radio
television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Created by Stig Thorsbøe for the DR broadcast
-television network
, the series debuted on 4 January 2004. The program's first season set popularity records. Five of the episodes were listed among the ten most watched tv programs since records began in Denmark in 1992. The first season finale topped the list with 2,717,000 viewers. In 2004, the program was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Drama but lost to Waking the Dead
.
The series concluded with the 22nd episode airing on 1 January 2007 and watched by 2.4 million viewers.
to Copenhagen
to enroll in a home-economics
school and an evening-school
programme. When she is told that she can not do both, she chooses the evening school.
Her parents are unhappy with her choice, but Ida is decided upon making it on her own in the big city. She finds a job as a secretary at a radio factory, but when her Erik Nielsen, her boss's son, has a crush on Ida, he causes her to lose her job.
While Erik is trying to convince his father of the future of television, he also succeeds in attracting Ida's attention. Meanwhile, Søs Nielsen, Erik's lively sister, is engaged to a man she does not love. When he tries to rape her one night, she is helped by Palle From who is a working-class
university student and lives next door to Ida. When Søs finds him to thank him an attraction builds between them.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
television drama
Dramatic programming
Dramatic programming in the UK, or television drama and television drama series in the US, is television program content that is scripted and fictional along the lines of √a traditional drama. This excludes, for example, sports television, television news, reality show and game shows, stand-up...
which aired on Sunday evenings between January 2004 and January 2007. The 22-episode series relates the lives of two fictional families during the historical development of the Danmarks Radio
Danmarks Radio
DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...
television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Created by Stig Thorsbøe for the DR broadcast
Terrestrial television
Terrestrial television is a mode of television broadcasting which does not involve satellite transmission or cables — typically using radio waves through transmitting and receiving antennas or television antenna aerials...
-television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
, the series debuted on 4 January 2004. The program's first season set popularity records. Five of the episodes were listed among the ten most watched tv programs since records began in Denmark in 1992. The first season finale topped the list with 2,717,000 viewers. In 2004, the program was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Drama but lost to Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead (TV series)
Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
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The series concluded with the 22nd episode airing on 1 January 2007 and watched by 2.4 million viewers.
Plot
In 1949, the young Ida Nørregaard travels from JutlandJutland
Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...
to Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
to enroll in a home-economics
Home Economics
Home economics is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community...
school and an evening-school
Continuing education
Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...
programme. When she is told that she can not do both, she chooses the evening school.
Her parents are unhappy with her choice, but Ida is decided upon making it on her own in the big city. She finds a job as a secretary at a radio factory, but when her Erik Nielsen, her boss's son, has a crush on Ida, he causes her to lose her job.
While Erik is trying to convince his father of the future of television, he also succeeds in attracting Ida's attention. Meanwhile, Søs Nielsen, Erik's lively sister, is engaged to a man she does not love. When he tries to rape her one night, she is helped by Palle From who is a working-class
Working class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
university student and lives next door to Ida. When Søs finds him to thank him an attraction builds between them.
Cast
- Anne Louise HassingAnne Louise HassingAnne Louise Hassing is a Danish actress best known for her award-winning roles in the films, The Idiots and Pain of Love .- Career :...
as Ida Nørregaard - Ken VedsegaardKen VedsegaardKen Vedsegaard is a Danish actor.Son to a restauranteur and raised in Copenhagen, Vedsegaard trained at the Skuespillerskolen at Aarhus Teater between 1996 and 2000...
as Erik Nielsen (2004–2005) - Anders W. Berthelsen as Palle From
- Maibritt Saerens as Søs From (Søs From Nielsen since 2005)
- Waage SandøWaage SandøWaage Sandø is an acclaimed Danish theatre, film and television actor.Sandø, son of a tavern owner in Copenhagen, was educated at the Private Theatre School from 1964 to 1966. From 1968-1970 he worked at Aarhus Theatre and he was head of the Open Air Theatre in Copenhagen from 1968-1973 as well as...
as Kaj Holger Nielsen - Stina EkbladStina EkbladStina Ekblad ) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. She received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1987 for her performances in Amorosa and Ormens väg på hälleberget and was nominated again in 1996 for her performance in Pensionat Oskar.Ekblad was born in the Ostrobothnian village of Solf in...
as Karin Nielsen - Dick KaysøDick Kaysø-Filmography:*Mafiaen, det er osse mig *Piger i trøjen *Strømer *Julefrokosten *Affæren i Mølleby *Normannerne *Gangsterens lærling *Olsen-banden deruda *Skytten...
as Børge From - Pernille Højmark as Karen Jensen
- Peter GantzlerPeter GantzlerPeter Gantzler is a Danish actor. He is perhaps best known for his parts in Taxa and Italian for Beginners.-Biography:...