A man comes to Korsbæk, Denmark, in 1929, opens a women's clothing store in competition with an established one - bringing him up against the conservative establishment including the bank manager. We follow the families until after WWII.
Mads Andersen-Skjern travels to the sleepy fictive town of Korsbæk, Denmark in 1929. After seeing that old well-established families rule the realm, he purchases a house, starts a business, and brings change the town. The series follow the families of Korsbæk until 1947. The series is regarded as the best Danish drama of all time.
Mads Skjern arrives in the small Danish town of Korsbæk in 1929. Hans Christian Varnæs, manager of the town bank, refuses him a loan to set up a clothes shop. Instead he receives money elsewhere, and his shop is soon a success, a sign of the changing times during the following decades.—Erik Holst
