

A Day in October
1991, Danish. Directed by Kenneth Madsen.
During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family.
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Danish
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- Released
- 6 September 1991
- Original title
- En dag i oktober
- Country
- Denmark
- Written by
- Damian F. Slattery
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A Day in October runs 97 minutes (1h 37m).
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A Day in October isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 6 September 1991. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed A Day in October?
A Day in October (1991) was directed by Kenneth Madsen and stars D. B. Sweeney, Kelly Wolf, Tovah Feldshuh.