Released Date:
1999-03-12
Languages:
Danish
Countries:
Denmark, Sweden
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (6581 Reviews)
Director:
Sèren Kragh-JacobsenAnders Thomas Jensen
Sèren Kragh-Jacobsen
Kresten has moved from his parents farm on a small Danish island to Copenhagen in order to pursue his working career. When his father dies he has to move back to the farm, where nothing much has happened since he left. He places an add in the local newspaper to get help running the farm and taking care of his mentally disabled brother. The whore Liva, who is running away from annoying telephone calls, answers it. But running away from your past isn't easy.
Released Date:
2007-04-27
Languages:
Danish
Countries:
Denmark
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1732 Reviews)
Director:
Peter Schènau FogBo Hr. Hansen (screenplay)
Erling Jepsen (novel)
Follows a precocious, eleven-year-old Allan, who tries desperately to keep his dysfunctional, rural family together during the social upheavals of the early seventies. Allan reveres his father, Henry, the local milkman, and can't understand why others don't feel the same way. His family life is so twisted he thinks it's perfectly normal to stay awake all night dealing with his father's hysterics and suicidal threats. Allan's older brother left town several years ago, and his mother gave up long before that, relying on sleeping pills to escape Henry's tantrums. Allan then becomes obsessed with a rival family, whom he considers foolish white trash until they start taking away Henry's customers. He is frustrated that his mother doesn't take his father's complaints seriously, and is perplexed by the increasingly rebellious and bizarre behavior of his sister, Sanne. Incapable of understanding what's going on and heavily influenced by his father, Allan commits appalling acts, unaware of their import.
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