01 Jan 1971
The Save the Children Fund Film
Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this documentary funded by the Save the Children foundation.
Black Pete – No, You're It
A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."
Top Billed Cast
Susse Brodersen Hanne
Lone Lindorff 
Leif Sylvester 
Hannah Bjarnhof 
Helle Ryslinge Peter Østed Esben Høilund Carlsen Ove Brusendorff Ole Hartkopp Svend Heinild 
Hans Henrik Voetmann
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