We Want a Child
1949, Danish. Directed by Alice O'Fredericks & Lau Lauritzen Jr..
You see a baby born right before your very eyes!
Else and her husband want a child but Else can't have one following an abortion performed before she got married. When Jytte, her friend, a salesgirl who is the mistress of a married man, tells her she is pregnant, Else thinks she has worked things out: along with her husband she will adopt the unwanted child. But things turn out differently since Jytte decides to keep the newborn the moment she sets eyes on it.
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Danish
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- Released
- 5 September 1949
- Original title
- Vi vil ha' et barn
- Country
- Denmark
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We Want a Child runs 76 minutes (1h 16m).
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We Want a Child isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 September 1949. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed We Want a Child?
We Want a Child (1949) was directed by Alice O'Fredericks and Lau Lauritzen Jr. and stars Jørgen Reenberg, Maria Garland, Grethe Thordahl.