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Genre | War drama |
Created by | Ole Bornedal |
Written by | Ole Bornedal |
Directed by | Ole Bornedal |
Starring | Pilou Asbæk Jakob Oftebro Marie Tourell Søderberg Sidse Babett Knudsen Søren Malling Jens Sætter-Lassen Nicolas Bro Johannes Lassen Sarah-Sofie Boussnina Bent Mejding |
Composer | Marco Beltrami |
Country of origin | Denmark |
Original languages | Danish German |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Producers | Jonas Allen Peter Bose |
Cinematography | Dan Laustsen |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | DR1 |
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1864 is a 2014 Danish television historical war drama series written and directed by Ole Bornedal. It is based on two books by Tom Buk-Swienty about the Second Schleswig War of 1864 between Denmark and an alliance of Prussia and Austria which ended in defeat for Denmark and the loss of a quarter of its territory to Prussia. It follows two brothers from a remote village on Funen who enlist in the Danish army just before the outbreak of war, and experience the horrors of combat in Schleswig. It also features actual historical figures such as Danish prime minister D. G. Monrad and Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck. It was the most expensive Danish TV series to be made to date.