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“‘Carmen Curlers’ is not only the story of a fascinating man with big dreams it’s also the story of all the women who, for the first time in their life, get a job and start making their own money.
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The whole series (1 & 2) runs for nearly 28 hours, and I guarantee you, not a minute too long. Believe me, it really, really is that good. Speaking to Variety, Heeno said the “Carmen Curlers” story has been at the back of her head for several years. “At first I thought it was going to be a feature film about a man and a crazy little invention, but then I realized that the story, theme and setting is so much bigger than that,” she said. The danish crime thriller 'The killing' is 'insanely brillant' wrote The Times. The Danish hair rollers’ global conquest ends abruptly when Axel decided to sell his Carmen Curlers to U.S. The Carmen Curlers business rapidly expands from a handful of employees working out of Axel’s basement, to a worldwide brand with a 3,500 strong workforce in 1969, its own helipad, a private kindergarten, and even a fire station. The working women create new friendships, experience divorce. Birthe sets out to recruit a majority of unskilled women from the neighboring farms, suddenly offered a ticket to freedom and independence, with their first factory payroll.
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In the series, that takes off in 1963, we follow wiz entrepreneur Axel and his wife Birthe who struggle to get enough hands to keep production going, with orders rolling in from the U.S. electronics, the new Carmen Curlers targeted liberated housewives and working women who could apply the brand’s tagline “become a new woman in 10 minutes.” The high-end TV drama is inspired by the true story of the Dane Arne Bybjerg Pedersen, a former radio-dealer who started a factory in the early 1960s, to produce electronic hair curlers, known as “Carmen Curlers.” At a time of a booming economy in Denmark and consumption of U.S.