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2012 | Maturity Rating:TV-MA | 5 Seasons | Drama

Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, schoolteacher Rita fares less well with adults in this comedy-drama from Denmark.

Starring:Mille Dinesen, Lise Baastrup, Carsten Bjørnlund

Creators:Christian Torpe

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Rita

Release year: 2012

A politically incorrect teacher sees her life take an unexpected turn when the man who was her high school sweetheart comes back on the scene.

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    1. The Idealist

    42m

    Ricco's father-in-law turns out to be Rita's high school sweetheart. Meanwhile, Rita's battle at school with a 14-year-old know-it-all goes wrong.

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    2. The Teacher

    38m

    A new student suffers socially when his parents demand a schoolwide ban on sugar. Meanwhile, Rita's estranged mother wants to get back in touch.

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    3. The Anarchist

    40m

    When a school talent show forces Rita to re-evaluate her uncompromising relationship to truth, she realizes she's been doing some lying of her own.

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    4. The Whore

    38m

    Rita finds porn on Jeppe's computer and fears he'll share what she knows firsthand is a destructive relationship to sex.

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    5. The Protector

    41m

    Rita protects a troubled kid with ADHD from vandalism charges but forgets to fight for her own son when he's the victim of hate crime bullying.

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    6. The Hypocrite

    37m

    Rita finds drugs at school, but the accused student points Rita in the direction of her own son, Jeppe. Molly gets a job at a hospice.

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    7. The Princess

    38m

    When Rita takes over a second-grade theater production, her own life story begins to blend with the fairy tale the kids are playing out.

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    8. The Mother

    37m

    A lonely Rita starts hanging out with Rosa. But all hell breaks loose when Rosa realizes that Rita was the one her dad was having an affair with.

Release year: 2013

In Season 2, Rita decides to commit to her relationship with Rasmus, hoping it will help her grow up and make her more "normal."

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    1. The Grown Up

    45m

    A pregnant Rita faces a difficult decision: She can keep the baby but never reveal who the father is, or she can get an abortion.

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    2. The Garden

    42m

    Rita and Rasmus move in together, and Rita tries her best to act like an adult -- until Rasmus puts a rose bed in her beloved wilderness of a garden.

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    3. And Baby Makes Three

    41m

    Rita "lends" her own grandchild to a pregnant girl in her class in an attempt to convince her to get an abortion, but the plan backfires.

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    4. Team Player

    41m

    It's sports day, and Helle wants to protect the losers from having an upsetting experience -- but Rita takes up the struggle for the right to win.

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    5. I Love You

    42m

    Another teacher is picking on Rita's student, and Rita has to take up the cause -- but it's not easy when the teacher uses bureaucracy as a weapon.

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    6. First Love

    42m

    A student in Rita's class falls hopelessly in love with her at the same time that her own first love, Tom, reappears in her life at a family baptism.

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    7. The Role Model

    41m

    Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.

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    8. Weeds

    40m

    For the first time in her life, Rita has gone down for the count, but she has to rediscover her fighting spirit when Erik strikes a student.

Release year: 2015

Rita reports to a new boss, takes a destructive student under her wing and faces living alone. Hjørdis must adjust when Uffe gets a job at the school.

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    1. The Candidate

    42m

    Inspired by local politics, Rita holds an election in her class. Uffe gets a job at the school, but it sparks conflict with Hjørdis.

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    2. The Basement

    41m

    Helle hires a motivational coach for the students. Meanwhile, Jeppe moves in with his boyfriend, and Rita struggles with living on her own.

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    3. The Sponsor Kid

    41m

    A problem student goes on a destructive rampage, Hjørdis makes progress with her second graders, and a man from Rita's past shows up.

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    4. Evening Classes

    41m

    To combat loneliness, Rita invites some students to her house. Meanwhile, Hjørdis tries to spice up her sex life with Uffe.

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    5. Lice

    41m

    Rita's fourth graders come down with head lice, and she decides to delouse them herself. Meanwhile, Helle faces evaluation by her peers.

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    6. Free Fall

    42m

    Rita tries to keep the police in the dark when Hjørdis decides on the perfect item to bury in a time capsule: marijuana.

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    7. The Leader

    42m

    Overcome by stress, Helle asks Rita to become the school's temporary headmaster, and Hjørdis's class celebrates Saint Lucy's day with style.

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    8. The Test

    42m

    Rita agrees to act as temporary headmaster in Helle's absence, and Hjørdis and Uffe face an important decision regarding their relationship.

Release year: 2017

A new teaching job takes Rita back to her childhood hometown, where flashbacks to 1985 reveal her tumultuous personal and academic life as a teenager.

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    1. Past/Present

    40m

    Rita reluctantly takes a new job at the school she attended as a teen in her hometown, where she runs into an old classmate who is less than welcoming.

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    2. You Are What You Eat

    40m

    Rita, who hates cooking, struggles to fill in as a home economics teacher. Hjørdis tries to help Allan overcome his fears about an upcoming field trip.

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    3. Sudden Thaw

    39m

    A bomb threat scares the whole school -- except Rita. Hjørdis worries that her and Uffe's strange hobbies will hurt their son socially when he's older.

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    4. True Friends

    41m

    Lea invites Rita to join her family for dinner, echoing a day in 1985 when teenage Rita had dinner with Lea's parents and was called to Lea's rescue.

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    5. You and I

    40m

    When one of Rita's first-graders doesn't want to take a turn bringing home "Sharebear," the class teddy bear, she visits his home to find out why.

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    6. Childhood Street

    42m

    To try to save the school from closure, the staff organizes a fundraiser, including a play by Hjørdis's class with Allan in the lead role.

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    7. Family

    42m

    Bjarne can't bear to break the bad news to his staff and becomes self-destructive. The event in 1985 that led to Lea falling out with Rita is revealed.

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    8. Home

    42m

    When history starts to repeat itself, Rita retreats in self-defeat, until a loyal friend gives her the support she needs to figure out her future.

Release year: 2020

The demands of running a school strain Hjørdis's relationships with Rita and Uffe. An old flame re-enters Rita's life. A heartbroken Jeppe returns home.

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    1. Fake News

    41m

    A young Holocaust denier creates a stir at Hjørdis and Rita's school. Helle asks Rita to help Rasmus accept a hard truth. Uffe meets a kindred spirit.

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    2. Hullabaloo House

    38m

    Rita tries to stop a shy student's parents from uprooting him to move to Greenland. Rasmus meets someone on Tinder. Hjørdis helps a student face a fear.

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    3. The Outing

    39m

    During a field trip to Sweden, Rita rubs the local townsfolk the wrong way. Niels brings Jeppe back to Denmark, where Rasmus and Uffe help the two bond.

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    4. Do You Speak English?

    42m

    When an odd new student suddenly pops up in class, Rita gets a moneymaking idea. Jeppe goes on a Tinder date. Attraction builds between Rasmus and Rita.

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    5. Hot Flash

    39m

    Uffe tries to avoid Pil. Rita worries that one of her night-class students might be a victim of domestic abuse. Jeppe learns Ole is still in the closet.

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    6. Boundaries

    39m

    Jeppe's ex unexpectedly returns. Hjørdis helps a student whose parents use her as a go-between. Rita's friendship with Gerd becomes a problem in class.

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    7. The Lake

    40m

    Rita struggles to process her overwhelming feelings of guilt. Ole reveals to Jeppe that he's met someone else — whom his grandmother approves of.

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    8. Chaos

    41m

    Jeppe learns Ole is going to propose to Camilla. A new student who leads the other pupils in a school strike reminds Rita why she became a teacher.

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TV Dramas, Danish, TV Comedies

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Cast

Mille DinesenLise BaastrupCarsten BjørnlundEllen HillingsøNikolaj GrothKristoffer FabriciusAlexandre WillaumeMorten Vang SimonsenSara Hjort DitlevsenFerdinand Gomez Glad BakLykke Sand MichelsenCarsten NorgaardCharlotte MunckTessa HoderSofie Juul Nielsen

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