The story of the Danish left-wing terrorist cell Blekingegadebanden (Blekinge Street Gang) who between the 1960s and 1970s carried out some of the biggest and most notorious robberies in Danish history will be made into a documentary feature film by Bastard Film who just received DKK 2.1m in production support from the Danish Film Institute.

Peter Øvig Knudsen who wrote the two volume best-seller ‘The Blekinge Street Gang, The Danish Cell; is attached to the project as a consultant. Blekingegadebanden will be directed by Anders Riis-Hansen (The Vanguard of Diplomacy) and produced by Søren Steen Jerspersen, one of the founders of Bastard Film. Recent high-profile documentary films made by Bastard Film include Eva Mulvad’s Enemies of Happiness, Max Kestner’s The World in Denmark and Christoffer Boe’s Riskær-The Avantgarde Capitalist.

Blekingegadebanden will be ready in 2009.

Another politically-charged documentary film recently supported by the DFI is Dagbog fra midten by Christoffer Guldbrandsen, a portrait of Denmark’s New Alliance political party. The DKK 2.4m produced by Helle Winther for Everest Pictures is co-produced by DR2. In 2003, Guldbrandsen made the award-winning portrait of Danish Prime Minister, Fogh bag facaden.