The girl with the needle: Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected ... Between 1915 and 1920, a Copenhagen woman, Dagmar Overbye, offered to take on unwanted babies for a fee, telling the mothers they were going to a good home. Instead, she murdered them. Overbye was... A historical horror film about a wet nurse who discovers a serial killer's secret adoption agency in 1919 Denmark. Based on the true story of Dagmar Overbye, the film premiered at Cannes and was nominated for awards. The bleakness of Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle is intimate and inescapable. Loosely inspired by the story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish child caretaker turned serial killer in the ...