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Borgen

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Internationally acclaimed Danish political drama from the producers of The Killing

Power always has a price. Danish prime minister Birgitte Nyborg unexpectedly wins office and grapples with the choices she faces to keep it. Complex, compelling drama.

Series 1

Borgen: The Silly Season

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Sidse Babett Knudsen

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Camilla Hammerich

Borgen: Series 1: Episode 8: The Silly Season

The Silly Season

Episode 8

Episode 8: The Silly Season

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Michael Laugesen is to publish a book containing disclosures from his years in politics.

Danish political drama series. Michael Laugesen announces that he has written a book containing disclosures of all sorts from his years in politics.

Danish drama series about the fight for political power - and the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved on and behind the political stage. 

It is summer, and not much is going on in parliament. Yet when Michael Laugesen announces that he has written a book - to be released in a few days - containing disclosures of all sorts from his years in politics, something happens. Kasper is forced to deal with people and events from his past which he has fought to put behind him. When Birgitte realises she must make an effort to win back her family life, she spontaneously plans a holiday for the whole family.

Borgen: Series 1

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The first series follows a charismatic populist who becomes Denmark's first female PM

The first series of the Danish political drama, following a populist personality who unexpectedly wins a landslide election victory to become Denmark's first female prime minister

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