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The Surfers are Coming, 1998
The Surfers are Coming tells the comic
and action-filled story of 16-year-old Anne (Mira Wanting) and
her encounter with love and the problems in standing out from
the crowd in the small fishing village. Anne is not quite the
other young people in the village because she has the courage
to do and say what she thinks. Anne’s accent gives away
that fact that she has moved from Copenhagen to this small fishing
community.
Nonetheless Anne is accepted by the other young people because
her boyfriend “Crown Prince” Nils-Peter, who hopes
to take over his father’s two trawlers, is highly respected
in this small community.
Anne is provoked by the conformity and
intolerance in the village, and along with her friend, Anne
is the only one who doesn’t automatically react hatefully
and aggressively towards some German surfers. When Anne takes
surfing lessons from the charming Dieter, the conflict comes
to a head. Anne is given the cold shoulder by Nils-Peter and
the other young people in town, and she feels torn between
her attraction to Dieter and her loyalty to the town.
After a fight between the village youths
and the newly arrived surfers at the local disco, there is
a chance for reconciliation between the two parties. Nils-Peter
and the other young people provoke Dieter to surf into a violent
storm. Dieter disappears in the waves, and despite their differences
Nils-Peter and Anne’s brother try to save Dieter. From
the beach Anne can see Nils-Peter and her brother disappear
into the waves and a rescue cutter sails out to retrieve the
bodies of three lifeless boys. Who drowns and who survives
is revealed in the end where the village and surfers are reconciled,
and the surfers leave. But things have changed for Anne …
The Surfers are Coming is directed
by Peter Bay.
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