A series on the mysteries of the power of Danish political life?
In the 2000s, even public television in the Scandinavian kingdom hardly believed in it, rejecting screenwriter Adam Price.
The latter's stubbornness and the success of the American soap opera
À la Maison-Blanche
changed the national channel's opinion.
It took them well,
Borgen
- a description of the accession and learning of power by a woman prime minister - fascinated the whole world, from the BBC to Arte, and propelled her heroine to the fore, Sidse Babett Knudsen, requested from Paris
(L'Hermine)
to Hollywood
(Westworld).
And imposed the audacity of Nordic series.
It was with a sense of duty accomplished that Adam Price and his actress closed, in 2013, after three seasons, the wanderings of Birgitte Nyborg, who returned to the opposition before inheriting the Foreign Affairs portfolio.
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Since then, the duo had firmly refused all calls to restart
Borgen
.
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