Eksperimentet

Eksperimentet English The Experiment is a 2010 Danish drama film written and directed by Louise Friedberg, and starring Ellen Hillings. The film premiered onAugust 2010 in the Katuaq Culture Centre in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The release date of the film in Denmark wasSeptember 2010.

The film deals with a 1950s social experiment and the problem of cultural genocide in Greenland. In 1951 the Danish colonial authorities, with dubious consent from their parents or guardians, removedGreenlandic Inuit childrengirls andboys from their homes, relocating them to Denmark for adoption and education. The selected children, aged betweenand 8, came from disadvantaged families the government planned for their adoption to integrate into the modern Danish society with the aim of transforming the children into small Danes.The surviving children lost their native language and culture, and suffered from the psychological trauma of being separated from their families most of their lives. Some of the children were returned to Greenland after a year, where they were placed into an orphanage in Nuuk, rather than being returned to their families. Others stayed in Denmark for the remainder of their lives. More than half died before reaching adulthood. ........

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