The Newspaper Man

- This item is used Description Avismand Olsen (Ib Schønberg) has his stand on Vesterbro Square, where he routinely witnesses all kinds of destinies. All sorts of people trade with Olsen; most like him despite his faith in God and a better fate after death. Among his regular customers are famous people such as the Landsretssagfører (Emil Hass Christensen), and the devil in a beautiful Author (Angelo Bruun) who does not believe in Heaven and Hell. But Olsen also has a completely different kind of customers, the lively bar girl Dorrit (Lisbeth Movin), and the homeless of Vesterbro, who may not buy many newspapers, but who know that Olsen is always good for a sip of hot coffee. The Landsretssagføreren has dealt with Olsen for many years, and has always enjoyed a cosy chat. But lately he has only had a restless frown for Olsen. It is the wife Tove (Karin Nellemose) who tells the author to Olsen. She is no longer young, and they never had children. The Landsretssagføreren has begun to cultivate other pastures. The author's new book has just that day been praised in the magazines. But Olsen does not agree with the critics and tells him outright what they write is so deathly sad. For even over the dirtiest alley in Saxogade there shines a bit of the Lord’s blue sky. They think they are depicting the truth, but they only see one side of it, where the Devil sits and laughs because everything is going to hell. The author smiles good-naturedly at these remarks. Olsen is, after all, 'insured in the heavenly assurance company' and believes that even an newspaper man can have a tiny share in the Lord’s household. Yet it is precisely this belief that makes Olsen do strange things. It is the belief that on a cold winter night gives him the courage to defy all authorities and fling open the gates of Eliaskirk to the homeless of Vesterbro. It is the belief that enables him to talk with a girl like Dorrit and restore to her the self-respect that she perhaps, without realizing it, has long fought hard to regain herself. And it is the belief that makes him seek out the Landsretssagføreren’s wife and show her something that becomes the beginning of a completely new life for two people who had almost drifted apart. And even a skeptical and cynical author discovers one day that the ordinary Avismand Olsen from Vesterbro Torv knows something that he needswww.danskefilm.dk Region code 2 Edition Digitally remastered Runtime in minutes 96 Production year 1952