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What have you spent your time on, and has the time been spent well enough? Alexander has to undergo heart surgery and thinks about what he would regret not having done if his life ended during the operation. In a documentary, the director creates a reflective self-portrait.
Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges.
