THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...
as Gert
as Frk. Høgh
as Inspektør Svendsen
as Hr. Omann
as Karen
as Niels
as Jørgen Møller
as Margrethe
as Marie
as Ingrid
as Dorthe
as Daniel
as Kirsten
as Johanne
as Victoria
as Benjamin
as Abel
as Cathrine
as Jonathan
as Helene
as Otto
as Petrine
as Lars
as Konrad
as Ole
