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Reprise is a Norwegian film directed by Joachim Trier, starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner and Viktoria Winge. Co-written over the course of five years with Eskil Vogt, it is Trier’s first feature-length film. The film was the Norwegian candidate for the Oscar as best foreign language film in 2006.Read More »
A convent girl school’s music teacher has composed an operetta. He has to escort his best student to an arranged marriage, but they head for his theater premiere instead.Read More »
Little Per has become a boy scout. As a boy scout he has to help other people in need, but things take a turn for the worse and Little Per goes missing. Now it is up to the family to find him…Read More »
The old renowned Landboskole is spreading a new team of Agricultural Candidates after completing the Course.Read More »
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The orphaned Paw (Sterman), ‘a Boy of Two Worlds,’ is imported to Denmark from the West Indies to live with his aunt. His natural inclination for the Great Outdoors is bolstered by the bullying and misunderstanding he meets in his new rural community, and after an apprenticeship with the local poacher, he goes to ground like a fox. Partly a plea for innocence, tolerance and reconciliation, the film is determined to find common ground for its various village factions, but its ambivalence about the natural order of hunter and prey makes intriguing drama, and the director’s nature documentary approach, constantly cutting away to local animal life, adds a certain contemplative depth.Read More »
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The boy has suffered a stroke, leaving one entire side of his body paralyzed. Dr. Malmros (Jens Albinus) is one of the best men in the whole of neurosurgery, and his exceptionally steady hands make him a prime candidate to operate on children. Working quickly and efficiently, he injects the boy with a chemical called a contrast medium to help photograph the blood vessels in his brain, locates the injured blood vessel, and ties it off. Yet another life saved. Except that decades later, the same boy will die of liver cancer—caused, ironically enough, by the same radio-emitter chemical used to save his life.Read More »
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A bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a three-year-period, focusing on the relationship between Jonas and Agnete, which is made difficult by misconceptions, Agnete’s interest for philosophy and Jonas’s friend Toke, her father’s mental illness and Jonas’s own indecision regarding his feelings for her. The story ends when the protagonists finish school.Read More »
“Liv Ullmann’s directorial debut is a beguiling and bittersweet tale about the yearning to be free… “
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Copenhagen at the end of the nineteenth century. Sofie is a beautiful and cultured 28-year-old who lives at home with her parents Frederikke and Semmy. They only want the best for her and worry that she will end up an old maid like her three aunts with whom they share the weekly Sabbath meal…Read More »
Doctor Glas face ethical complications when a woman, Helga Gregorius, asks for help in preventing her husband, the disgusting Reverend Gregorius, to have sex with her.Read More »