What do you get when you let hundreds of people create their own alternative society in the middle of a European capital? Copenhagen, Denmark has an answer. Its name: Freetown Christiania, widely known as simply Christiania, an anarchist commune created in 1971 via the occupation of abandoned barracks in the city’s Christianshavn neighborhood.
Now, 55 years later, Danish director Karl Friis Forchhammer, who was born in the commune, goes inside its history in his documentary Christiania, produced by Rikke Tambo via her Copenhagen-based Tambo Film. The film explores the heart and soul of Christiania, including various aspects of the 32-hectare commune, which has been called one of the world’s most iconic social experiments. They include its anarchic hippie culture, its governance by consensus democracy, a biker gang attack, and the efforts to shut down Pusher Street, Christiania’s cannabis market, which became “Denmark’s most violent area,” as the press notes explain.
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