Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort

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Southern Comfort

1997

0h 57m

6.2(6 votes)

Drama

Family

Overview

7-year old Ida has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. The second of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.

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4 members

Acting

Stephania Potalivo

Ida

Stephania Potalivo

Acting

Birgitte Federspiel

Mormor

Birgitte Federspiel

Acting

Maurice Blinkenberg-Thrane

Skrubsak

Maurice Blinkenberg-Thrane

Acting

Birgitte Simonsen

Mor

Birgitte Simonsen

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