Drømmen (Danish "The Dream", English: We Shall Overcome) is a 2006 Danish film based on a true story about a young boy's crusade against a dictatorial headmaster of the "old school", in 1969 Denmark.

The film is directed by Danish screenwriter and film director Niels Arden Oplev and stars Bent Mejding and Anders W. Berthelsen.^[1] It won sixteen awards in 2006 and 2007.

The story opens in the Danish countryside of 1969.^[2] Denmark and the rest of the world are changing rapidly but Lindum-Svendsen, the headmaster of the rural school, hasn't noticed.

Frits is a young boy who spends his summer holidays watching the family's first television, and is influenced by the American civil rights movement.^[3] The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968, coupled with his own dreams of a better life, have given Frits courage and a desire for rebellion.^[4] The dictatorial Lindum-Svendsen steps over the line while punishing Frits, drawing the ire of youthful new teacher Freddie Svale, which encourages Frits to take up battle against the headmaster.^[5]

• Bent Mejding as headmaster Lindum-Svendsen
• Janus Dissing Rathke as Frits Johansen
• Anders W. Berthelsen as Freddie Svale
• Jens Jørn Spottag as Peder, Frits' father
• Peter Hesse Overgaard [da; no; sv] as Erling
• Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis [da; no] as Stine, Frits' mother
• Gyrd Løfqvist as Frits' grandfather
• Elin Reimer [da; no; sv] as Frits' grandmother
• Steen Stig Lommer [af; da; no; sv] as teacher Olsen
• Kurt Ravn as school doctor
• Peter Schrøder [da; de; no; sv] as sexton
• Sarah Juel Werner as Iben
• Daniel Ørum as Troels
• Lasse Borg as Søren
• Joy-Maria Frederiksen as Iben's mother

The film has won sixteen awards in 2006 and 2007.^[6]