Stig Thorsboe and Hanna Lundblad, the successful writing duo behind the 2004 Emmy nominated series Better Times (2004) and recent dramedy Happy Life are the creators of this new series in six episodes ready to start rolling. “We are fascinated by this little closed enclave who live together in an upstairs-downstairs community where the day is divided into regular routines and where hierarchy and defined roles exist not only between the employees but also between the guests,” said co-writers Thorsboe and Lundblad. “We capture the happy holiday mood and at the same time reflect–through the guests and staff of this deserted beach hotel- on a time that goes from speculation and optimism to unemployment and extremism. This is naturally a way to reflect on our own times.”
The story itself takes place in the summers of 1928-1933. The main characters are the young maid Fie (Rosalinde Mynster from Worlds Apart), the merchant’s daughter Amanda and local boy Morten played respectively by newcomers Amalie Dollerup and Morten Hemmingsen. The owners of the hotel who welcome the rich guests from Copenhagen are played by Ole Thestrup (Borgen) and the award-winning actress Bodil Jørgensen (Nothing’s All Bad, The Idiots).
Behind the camera is Hans Fabian Wullenwebber who directed two episodes of The Protectors and five episodes of The Killing.
TV2’s Head of Programming Sune Roland said: “Following our successes with Dicte and Rita, we have been looking forward to presenting this project as our next major fiction series. This [Badehotellet] is a warm and vibrant universe that has many parallels to our time and it contains in great part the closeness that we want our TV2 programmes to have.”
Badehotellet is produced by SF Film Production in co-production with Nitrat Film and Thorsboe & Lundblad, with support from the Danish Film Institute’s Public Service Television Fund. Another three seasons of the series are planned.
Rosalinde Mynster and Morten Hemmingsen