Danish filmmaker Karl Friis Forchhammer’s “Christiania” is a tale of anarchy, violent biker gangs, drug pushers and an alcoholic black bear, but also one of peace-loving hippies in search of a better world. The film, which has its world premiere on Friday at Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox, is an insider’s take on the titular self-governing commune in the Danish capital. Verità Films has come on board to handle international sales.
The director describes Christiania, which was established in 1971 when a former military base was squatted, as “one of the world’s biggest democratic social experiments, where one thousand people made a parallel society with their own rules.” The freetown “became a place where they tolerated everything,” Friis Forchhammer tells Variety, speaking from his apartment in Christiania. The central question he poses is, “How do you tolerate everything and remain a nice place to live?”
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