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Should be an interesting watch. Wonder if Americans will get confused because it is the same year in another an much more infamous civil war.
shareIs this about the second schleswig war?
shareyep, it is
shareThank you for your reply.
I really can't wait for this series. I hope we can be able to see it as well, I mean outside Danmark, Sweden or Norway.
I'm excited about anything Lars Mikkelsen is in. In my opinion he is as excellent as Mads. Though I'm a German I'm glad the subject is handled by the Danish TV because they definitely make better TV-series than we do (Borgen and The Killing belong to my favorites of all). It's also ok because we always get their series relatively fast (even translated with German voices) and in this case I think they will try much harder because of the involvement of Germany in the story.
shareDanish soldiers in 1864, talking german?
Gonna be the insult of the century.
Danish soldiers in 1864, talking german?
Gonna be the insult of the century.
Though one might think that, it might not be an insult at all. After the viking age, Denmark would mostly use german mecernaries in times of war rather than arming the Danish peasantry. Though Denmark eventually get its own standing army, the tradition of the german being the official language of the armed forces continued.
I read one source citing that German was still spoken in the army/navy at the Battle of Copenhagen during the Napoleonic Wars. I'm inclined to believe that Danish had indeed replaced German by 1864 (it definitely would have afterwards), but I would hardly go as far as calling it an insult, given the circumstances.
That said, the german tradition of dubbing foreign films is definitely an insult to the art of cinema. Dubbing is fortunatly becomming less prevelant in Germany and France, but completly abandoning it in favor of subtitles would do wonders for those countries English speaking abilities.
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The other commenter was right--it's not likely that them speaking German would be too much of an insult. On top of that, in many parts of the Duchy of Schleswig, Danish was actually the minority language. You would have seen this quite a bit in the Jutland Peninsula, as German merchants had heavy influence in much of the area for more than 600 years.
Enough about that... I CANNOT WAIT! Schleswig-Holstein is my absolutely favorite thing to study and I look forward to seeing a major cinematic adaptation of the War!
It will be on German TV (arte) in spring of 2015, according to this older article: http://www.shz.de/schleswig-holstein/kultur/acht-stunden-krieg-bei-due ppel-id3895271.html. ZDF is in on it too, but they haven't made any announcements yet.
Arte-fr (the French part of their website) had an article months ago, but Arte-de doesn't seem to be that interested (http://www.arte.tv/sites/fr/dimension-series/2014/03/10/1864-serie-his torique-danemark-dr/)
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