In the world of Danish true crime, one name looms large over all the rest: Dagmar Overbye. Between 1913 and 1920, Overbye operated a fraudulent adoption agency that claimed to find homes for babies ...

Magnus von Horn never wanted to make a biopic of a serial killer: The Poland-based filmmaker finds that morally strange. But when he was approached to direct a film about Dagmar Overbye, a Danish ...

Magnus von Horn’s sophomore feature Sweat earned its director a spot in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020, after his debut, The Here After, played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. But the festival of ...

Psychological horror based on real events is set at an adoption agency in 1919 Denmark Dagmar is based on a real historical figure, Dagmar Overbye. Hers is a name that may be unfamiliar to ...

Perhaps the most chilling element of director Magnus von Horn's black-and-white historical drama "The Girl with the Needle" is it's not entirely a work of fiction. In the film, Karoline (Vic Carmen ...

Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) is utterly alone in Copenhagen. She assumed her husband, Peter, died in the Great War until he turned up unannounced and horrifically disfigured — she turned him away. No ...

Director Magnus von Horn’s “The Girl with the Needle” has been nominated for best international film at the 2025 Oscars, continuing an impressive Danish nomination streak. (Lukasz Bak/The Danish Film ...

Swedish-Polish director Magnus von Horn’s dark period drama “The Girl With the Needle” will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Variety has been given exclusive access to a ...

Currently the only horror film on this list to be nominated for an Oscar - though that will likely change next year - The Girl with the Needle is a mesmerising period psychological horror film based ...