Axel Strøbye
Strøbye was most famous for his comedy roles, as the confused uncle in Min søsters børn (My sisters Children) and the hustler Gyldenkål in Familien Gyldenkål (The Goldcabbage Family). But his biggest role and success was in Matador the TV series a lawyer Skjold Hansen, he... Read full bio →
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Prop og Berta
Prop & Berta is the story of a friendship between a little stout man and a big and proud cow, who are able to talk to each other. Together they confront an ugly and evil witch who is determined to get rid of them because they have moved into a house on the edge of her wood.
Olsen-bandens sidste stik
Egon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. Keld and Benny pick him up, and when Egon, as always, is planning the big heist, the Olsen Gang is once again on the move.
Carl Th. Dreyer: Min metier
Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors. Visually rich and densely layered, Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier illuminates an artist too little understood and too important to overlook.
Jungledyret
The cute little jungle creature Hugo is one of his kind. Wanted by a millionaires wife as a pet, he travels to Copenhagen. Here he meets the street fox Rita. Together they try to avoid all dangers of the big city.
Camping
Per is a traveling man who makes a living setting up new campsites—financed by a rather clueless telephone company and a gawking power plant. Søren has been in prison for eight years for bank robbery—but now he is free and ready to retrieve the buried money. To his great despair, he sees the campsite right where the loot is buried.
Pelle erobreren
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.
Babettes gæstebud
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
Anthonsen
The private detective from Valby--the Danish answer to Sherlock Holmes and Philip Marlowe.
Otto er et næsehorn
The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A little heavy perhaps, when you live on the second floor. No matter, it's a modern fairy-tale of the baroque, and everything goes.
Olsen-bandens flugt over plankeværket
As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, however, even Egon's life is in danger, for some international criminals try to get rid of him by throwing him into a container filled with acid.
Olsen-banden over alle bjerge
Egon har endnu en plan for at få fat i papirene fra Høje Nord. Planen mislykkes dog og Olsenbanden må tage til Paris for at klare sagerne. Det endelige opgør finder sted på den berømte restaurant Maxim's.
Jeppe på bjerget
Jeppe is a bedraggled day laborer whose great vice is brandy. And when he falls down drunk in the field, a passing baron is tempted to play a prank on Jeppe. The baron's lackeys carry the sleeping Jeppe up to the castle, dress him in the baron's finest bedclothes, and lay him in the baron's bed.
Rend mig i traditionerne
Based on Leif Panduro's 1958 satire classic. David, a senior high-school student, aims a swift kick at his principal's behind and is committed to a psychiatric ward from the perspective of which he takes a close look at his allegedly sane family. They, of course, are the real loonies. The psychiatrists are worse.
Olsen-banden overgiver sig aldrig
Under sit årlige ophold i Vridsløselille har Egon deltaget i et kursus i management og virksomhedsledelse og er nu klar over, at det er de ”lovlige” forbrydelser, man skal begå: lave sminkede regnskaber og platte lidt med checks. Det lykkedes den lille bande for en kort tid til at eje stormagasinet Magasin, men det er kun et lille skridt på vejen.
Olsen-banden går i krig
Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hand at some important documents which could both make him rich and take care of Denmark's future.
Matador
A man comes to Korsbæk, Denmark, in 1929, opens a women's clothing store in competition with an established one - bringing him up against the conservative establishment including the bank manager. We follow the families until after WWII.
Olsen-banden deruda'
Benny, Keld and computer savvy Georg await old Egon Olsen at his release from prison. Egon has a new plan - theft of USD10,000,000 in Copenhagen. It involves the EEC's (before EU) butter mountain.
Olsen-banden ser rødt
Olsen Banden har fået et yderligere pres lagt på sig. Kjeld og Yvonnes søn Børge skal giftes med Fie, og Yvonne er begejstret. Pengene til at holde bryllup for skal delvist skaffes ved at stjæle en kostbar kinesisk vase, som en lensbaron er i besiddelse af. Barnemad for Egon, men det går ikke helt som timet og tilrettelagt.
Olsen-banden på sporet
Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages to steal them. Egon ends up in jail once again, and when he comes out, he has a brilliant plan.
Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter
The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan.
Olsen-banden går amok
When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.
Fætrene på Torndal
Werner (William Rosenberg) is an inspector for group of farmes called Digeskov. Left alone by Digeskovs owner, Werner is tricking small neighboring farmes out of there land. The owners doughter find out and stops Werner and she falls in love with a young poor farmer from a neighbor farm.
Rektor på sengekanten
The young headmaster of a boys' boarding school has decided that his young charges are a sort of national treasure, owing to their virility. He believes that his school should become co-educational as soon as possible.
Motorvej på sengekanten
In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local village to end up in the sack. His goal is to get them to sign papers allowing a new highway to go through the middle of town. Their goal is to get him to re-route the highway.
Min søsters børn, når de er værst
It's the last school day and a long summer holiday awaits ahead.
Mazurka på sengekanten
Max is a popular teacher at a public school who needs a new schoolmaster. In an effort to entice him to take the vacated position, the boys hire a stripper to seduce the sexually inexperienced scholar.
Dyrlægens plejebørn
A single male vet looks after different animals on an old farm he shares with a doctor/friend. By accident he ends up looking after a human girl for a while, too. Will the experience change his attitude to not wanting wife and kids?
Min søsters børn på bryllupsrejse
Fredhvilevej 11 is filled with flowers and gifts, a big event is coming up. Lisbeth Andersen and Erik Lund are to be married.
Min kones ferie
Allan Thorsen is tired of his wife, but he finds it difficult to tell her that he wants a divorce. So he arranges a skiing holiday where she will fall in love with another man, so that he can get rid of her without having to do anything himself.
Astérix le Gaulois
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the aid of their druid's magic potion, which gives superhuman strength. Learning of this potion, a Roman centurion kidnaps the druid to get the secret formula out of him.
Nu stiger den
A folk comedy loosely based on the career of Danish inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer.
Min søsters børn
Child psycologist and bachelor, Eric Lund, has written a thesis about the use of psycology in modern parenting.
Pigen og millionæren
A millionaire gets amnesia after a hit to the head and now he has to rediscover his past and decide what kind of man he wants to be in the future.
Premiere i helvede
About an American's reaction to the Danes' way of chatting about one another behind their backs. A rumor begins to flourish. A serious one. About death. perhaps even murder.
Gertrud
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection.
Pigen og pressefotografen
A male photographer and a female reporter meet at the newspaper they work for in Copenhagen. They become friends. She helps him get an apartment with a marriage of convenience--or so he thinks.
Bussen
A bus driver driving a really old bus has to battle with a new accountant who wants to buy a newer model, different ticket system and new regulations. They decided to fire the stubborn bus driver, but this is something not everyone like.
Han, Hun, Dirch og Dario
Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He even forget their wedding day, in favor of a new fast sports car, a beautiful silver-gray Jaguar. During his drive, he runs out of gas. A young lady Laura Lublinski (Hanne Borchsenius), helps him and he takes an innocent flirtation with her.
Det tossede paradis
Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.
Det stod i avisen
6 Danish human interest stories based on 6 newspaper ads in 1962: chest, typewriter, small apartment, baby carriage, employment for couple, room for rent and the 7th story on how the journalist met his love via "Dress for sale".
Den sidste vinter
The Danish resistance movement stepped up its activities towards the end of the war. One night, an English agent arrives by plane, is injured and is taken in by local resistance fighters. The agent and the resistance fighters plan actions against the Germans, but there must be a traitor among them, because the Germans are always very close by.
Poeten og Lillemor
Poeten and Lillemor are making their living on his writing, but the general interest in modern poetry is low and their income very small. A creditor is dogging them, when a sudden bequest gives them some breathing-space. They buy an old house in a small village, where living is cheaper than in Copenhagen.
Fløjtespilleren
A bunch of wagons are crossing the border. It's the Karla Circus, which, after a rough season in Germany, is gonna try its luck in Denmark. Mrs. Karla, the beloved and respected circus director, goes through passports and papers with the customs officers... everything's fine, so the circus caravan can keep going to the next town.