Dagmar

Poland-based filmmaker Magnus von Horn tells the story of Danish baby killer Dagmar Overbye through the eyes of a desperate mother.

But when he was approached to direct a film about Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who killed at least nine babies in the 1910s, he reconsidered, centering “The Girl With the Needle” on a desperate mother seeking adoption services rather than on the killer herself.

“I think most people in Denmark know about Dagmar and the true crime that inspired us to write about this. But no one outside Denmark,” Von Horn says.

The real-life story of Dagmar Overbye, one of Denmark’s most notorious serial killers, is dramatized in this nightmarish tale of desperate women and infanticide.

The Dagmar case did help change laws in Denmark to ensure this scenario couldn’t happen again.