My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts

My Grandmother Ironed the King 's Shirts, French version of Ma grand-mère repassait les chemises du roi, is a Canadian animated short film by Torill Kove from the year 1999.

Action

The narrator tells of her grandmother and interwoven with their events in Norway. As the Norwegians in 1905 decided to again become a monarchy, was among a variety of candidates for the throne, the Dane Carl von Glücksburg, Prince of Denmark, as King Haakon VII of Norway. He moved with his wife and child to the Royal Palace in Oslo, but soon had a problem: none of the three could iron shirts and so led a public appearance in rumpled shirts to confusion in the public. The royal family was so their shirts in a laundry where the grandmother of the narrator worked. Long did not notice, whose shirts she ironed, but eventually discovered the royal emblem on a shirt, followed the shirt pick-up and watched as he disappeared into the castle. From then on she told everyone might like to hear about it, that she ironed the king's shirts. She also met her husband.

When Norway was occupied in 1940 during World War II, the king fled from Oslo and the grandmother had now iron your dress shirts of the Nazis. Together with other laundries she developed while a conspiratorial network and manipulated regularly dress shirts of the Nazis tore buttons off or scorched holes in it. As the occupiers fled, they also did it because they did not have all shirts more. The grandmother was honored for her resistance by the king and embraced him warmly at the ceremony. While she ironed after the war some years shirts, but proved the 1960s as too progressive for their craft, so they - to the private sector - gave up.

Production

My Grandmother Ironed the King 's Shirts was the first film in which Torill Kove led Director. Spokeswoman for the English version is Mag Ruffman, the French Sophie Léger.

Awards

My Grandmother Ironed the King 's Shirts 2000 was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against The Old Man and the Sea itself.