Denmark's answer to Stripes, but everyone's drunk and nobody's apologizing.
The old comrades are called up for three weeks of autumn maneuvers. They are usually more interested in beer, girls, and cheerful music, but Sergeant Vældegaard is determined to scrape the civilian rust off the "boys." Their old friends from their days as recruits have remained in the system as platoon leaders and sergeants, respectively, but that does not dampen the fun. In the heat of battle, the schoolteacher finds time to flirt with his Lotte Corps colleague Birthe.
Acting
Preben Kaas and Louis Miehe-Renard's effortless drunk chemistry
Direction
Methling's gentle mockery of Danish military bureaucracy
Production
Authentic 1960s barracks aesthetic, sweat and all
Director
Sven Methling
Carl Ottosen
Oversergent Vældegård
Ebbe Langberg
Løjtnant 'Ras'
Louis Miehe-Renard
Knud (616)
Preben Kaas
Ole (615)
Paul Hagen
Henrik (617)
Klaus Pagh
Holger Schwanenkopf
Svend Johansen
Sergent Viggo
Anne Werner Thomsen
Birthe, Knuds kæreste
Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen
Fru Schwanenkopf
Mogens Brandt
Dr. Salem
Jytte Abildstrøm
Dr. Salem's assistant Ruth
Peter Kitter
Christian Arhoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This belongs to Denmark's 'Rekrutfilm' genre—comedy series about bumbling conscripts that peaked in the 1960s as actual mandatory service loomed over young men.
Carl Ottosen played Vældegård across multiple films; his tyrannical sergeant became so beloved that real Danish soldiers reportedly quoted his lines during actual exercises.
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