Ole Bornedal Helms Denmark's Most Expensive Television Series Ever, Check First Stills From Period War Piece 1864

Danish director Ole Bornedal - much loved in these parts for films such as Deliver Us From Evil and The Substitute - is sure to make a major splash across Europe with his current project, though he's moving from big screens to small to do so as the director of 1864, a period set television series revolving around the Battle of Dybbøl which stands to be Denmark's most expensive television production ever.

"1864" was a fateful year for Denmark. The nation lost the Battle of Dybbøl to the Prussians and, in turn, two thirds of its land and population, 5,000 troops and a good measure of self-respect. The ignominious defeat became a national trauma that can still make Danes feel small.

With a cast that includes Sidse Babett Knudsen, Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Jens Frederik Sætter-Lassen,  Nicolas Bro, Bent Mejding, Lars Mikkelsen and Søren Pilmark, Zlatko Buric, Jakob Oftebro, Rainer Bock, Barnaby Metschurat, Heikko Deutschmann, Barbara Flynn and James Fox a whopping twenty six images from the show have recently been released. Check them in the gallery below.

Danish soldiers.

DIDRICH (Pilou Asbæk) & LAUST (Jakob Oftebro)

EINAR (Carl Christian Riestra) & PETER (Jens Sætter Lassen)

DE MEZA (Søren Sætter Lassen)

Søren Pilmark, Nicolas Bro & Olaf Johannessen

PETER (Jens Sætter Lassen)

PRUSSIAN HUSSAR

WRANGEL (Hans-Michael Rehberg) & MOLTKE (Heikko Deutschmann)

THE RED PRINCE (Barnaby Metschurat)

JOHANNE L. HEIBERG (Sidse Babett Knudsen) & MONRAD (Nicolas Bro)

SOFIA (Eva Josefikova), INGE (Marie Tourell Søderberg) & IQNAZIO (Zlatko Burik)

JOHAN (Søren Malling)

FELT HOSPITAL SØNDERBORG

MOLTKE (Heikko Deutschmann)

DINESEN (Johannes Lassen) & AUSTRIAN HUSSAR

COLONEL MØLLER (Rasmus Bjerg)

JOHANNE L. HEIBERG (Sidse Babett Knudsen)

MONRAD (Nicolas Bro)

GERMAN SOLDIERS

MOLTKE (Heikko Deutschmann) & THE RED PRINCE (Barnaby Metschurat)

MOLTKE (Heikko Deutschmann) & THE RED PRINCE (Barnaby Metschurat)

DINESEN (Johannes Lassen)

DIDRICH (Pilou Asbæk)

PETER (Jens Frederik Sætter-Lassen)

LAUST (Jakob Oftebro)

OHANNE L. HEIBERG (Sidse Babett Knudsen) & MONRAD (Nicolas Bro)