Amateur actors came from a Copenhagen youth club and the films dialogue is improvised.
Authorities considered it too harsh, so the film was banned for children under twelve.
It was loosely based on William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies."
In the spring of 2018, it was discovered in the media that some of the child actors, both male and female, involved in the film, were subjected to sexual abuse during filming by Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen. In particular, Hanne Nohr Sommer (then called Hanne Olsen) recalled when one morning Johansen came and woke her in the sleeping tent. She got up and followed Ernst, without having the remotest idea of what awaited her down on the beach. "He's brought blankets and we're going to sit and talk. Then he lays me down and I think, 'What's going on here?' But I don't get to say anything. I'm shocked, and he starts reaching into my panties and touching my crotch." Fourteen-year-old Hanne focused on the fact that she must not let herself be marked with anything. She just has to keep up appearances. "'You'll get warm,' says Ernst. 'I don't think I will,' I reply. But my body was cheating on me because he kept petting me. I could't control that," says Hanne Nohr Sommer. It was early in the morning, so they had to go back. Hanne said the same thing happened to her friend and co-star in the film. But both hadn't sexual intercourse with Johansen. "It was enough for him to touch us, our genitals. We didn't have to do anything ourselves. If he had moved on, I honestly have no idea what I would have done."
Jens Wagn Rasmussen (Oct. 1, 1961- Dec. 24,1993) was the son of Esben Wagn Rasmussen and Inge Mette Wang, both of whom were missionaries to Tanzania.
He starred in Lasse Nielsen's and Steen Herdel's film "La 'os være". The film premiered in the Grand Cinema and a picture of Jens Wagn Rasmussen in 2 x normal size was set up on Støget next to Mikkel Bryggersgade, Copenhagen. For a few months the family phone rang from morning to night from girls who had seen the movie. Each time there was a premiere in a provincial town the number of calls increased. It was absolutely unhealthy for a child aged 12-14.
Jens only appeared in this one film. He died on Christmas Eve in 1993. Details of his death are unknown. He was buried at Birkerød - Assistens og Søholm Kirkegård.
He starred in Lasse Nielsen's and Steen Herdel's film "La 'os være". The film premiered in the Grand Cinema and a picture of Jens Wagn Rasmussen in 2 x normal size was set up on Støget next to Mikkel Bryggersgade, Copenhagen. For a few months the family phone rang from morning to night from girls who had seen the movie. Each time there was a premiere in a provincial town the number of calls increased. It was absolutely unhealthy for a child aged 12-14.
Jens only appeared in this one film. He died on Christmas Eve in 1993. Details of his death are unknown. He was buried at Birkerød - Assistens og Søholm Kirkegård.