Except that underneath her charitable facade, there was something much more sinister waiting to be discovered.
And Karoline Aagesen, well,she was the one that helped bring it all to light.
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However, there is not enough evidence to prove it as a fact.
And,in 1920, that is exactly what Karoline Aagesen did.
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Aagensen didnt start by going straight to Overbye.
Instead, she placed an ad in a local paper looking for a home for her newborn daughter.
The problem was that the child had already been adopted or so Overbye claimed.
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“What she did says so much about society surrounding her at the time,“von Horn toldTime.
“She didn’t kidnap babies to kill them.Women came to her and gave her babies.
The Girl With The Needle, directed by Magnus von Horn, follows Karoline, a young factory worker in post-WWI Copenhagen, as she navigates abandonment and pregnancy. She encounters Dagmar, who operates a clandestine adoption agency within a candy store, offering aid to impoverished mothers seeking foster homes for their children.
We wanted to give a shot to tap into that world.”
The result is nothing less than stellar.
