Susan Bier Talks 'In A Better World'

At Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Susan Bier, whose 'In A Better World' won a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film:

The film is set in two very different locations — a refugee camp in an unnamed African country and a small town in Denmark — and tells two very different stories. In the camp, where conditions suggest those in the camps in and around southern Sudan, warlords commit horrendously brutal crimes against innocent people. The doctor who cares for those people, played by Mikael Persbrandt, shuttles back and forth between the refugee camp and his Danish home, where he struggles to keep his family together amid marital troubles with his wife and difficulties with his son, who has become the target of school bullies.

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