Peter Hesse Overgaard
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: København, Danmark
Birthday: May 19, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Substitute
Overview: 6th Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
Genres: Thriller Comedy Horror
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-03-13
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Lost Generation
Overview: The film is based on Christian Kampmann's novels: "Certain Considerations", "Solid Relationships", "Clean Lines" and "Other Ways" (1973-75). The Gregersen family is a picture of inner and outer Denmark from the mid 50's to the 70's. The story begins in 1954 in the well-behaved, but not just successful, Gregersen family from the best part of the whiskey belt on the right side of Strandvejen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms
Overview: It's not easy to be Barry. An earthworm gets no respect. He lives at the bottom of the food chain. But one day, an old disco record turns his life upside down. Suddenly he sees before him his own destiny, the star of the world's greatest disco band: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms! Okay, he's got no arms, no rhythm and no band. But as Barry says: "We'll do it anyway!"
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-09-07
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Jewel of the Desert
Overview: To tyve overhører delvis en samtale. De hører at en kamel har slugt en juvel – og ikke at kamelen er ørkenens juvel. De stikker af og forsøger at få fat i kamelen. Samtidig kommer to børn på besøg i byen. De er i familie med byens betjent. Betjenten vil beslaglægge kamelen, men tyvene kommer ham i forkøbet. Generalen bliver meget ked af det, da kamelen er væk. Efterhånden får generalen og børnene fundet tyvene og kamelen og så går jagten ellers i gang. © Copyright 1997-2012, Lone Hansen & Per Kjær Fredborg
Genres: Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2001-02-02
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Excuse Me
Overview: A story about the beautiful but confused young woman Helene, who, according to her mother, was born as a 'technical error'. Helene suspects that her father, who left his family before Helene was born, might be the once celebrated director of a dilapidated theater in Copenhagen. Assisted by a series of bizarre coincidences and by her mother's dog (a creature in whose shadow Helene has always lived), Helene manages to get closer to her father.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-01-05
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Where Have All the Good Men Gone
Overview: Realizing that her unknown biological father is probably alive, Sofia leaves behind a degrading and humiliating life and embarks on a journey with her naive half-sister Olivia, both girls hoping to find the caring father figure they so desperately need.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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The Silent Touch
Overview: Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-30
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Burning Hearts
Overview: A comedy about the everydaylife of the 30-year-old something nurse Henriette and her life. Her boyfriend is boring and she has an affair with a violent doctor. She shares an apartment with a gay man and she is close with her brother who is a somewhat insecure and love-seeking guy. However, after some unfortunate clashes with the world, Henriette realizes she is able to stand on her own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1986-12-26
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The Art of Success
Overview: In the old days, things were different. Art, too. It assembled and passed on human experience and knowledge. But in today's Denmark, something else is wanted from art. It has to experiment and break new ground. It is almost a political requirement. The more conventional the politics, the harsher the politically correct requirements for the artist. Sliced up, rotting pigs are not enough anymore! Art must move on. But how can the poor artist surpass his predecessors and become a success?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-14
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Bye Bye Blue Bird
Overview: Two friends, Rannvá and Barba, return to Faroe Islands after seven years abroad. The girls arouse both curiosity and outrage with their bizarre city appearance and emancipated behaviour. They embark on a road trip with one of the locals, Rúni, who - as it turns out - also carries a dark secret. The trio goes on a journey not just through the beautiful landscape of the Faroes but into the land of the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fo
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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Facing the Truth
Overview: A man grows up in very modest circumstances in the early years of the 20th century, but his diligence, intelligence and willingness to endure hardship helps him to become a leading brain surgeon. A success story on the face of it, but a story about a man – who is none other than the director's father – a man of powerful emotions. The film explores the nature and origin of the guilt that repeatedly deprived him of happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Barbara
Overview: Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-10-02
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We Shall Overcome
Overview: A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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The Gold of Valhalla
Overview: Three siblings, Sofie, Jonas and Emma, move to Copenhagen when their father is appointed a job at the National Museum. One day, the ancient Norse gods, Loki, Thor and Heimdal, materialize to prevent the museum's legendary golden horns from falling into the wrong hands and threatening the human race with extinction. Because the divine powers of the gods aren't too efficient in a modern, hi-tech world, the kids step in and come to their rescue.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Terribly Happy
Overview: Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-07-15
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Young Andersen
Overview: A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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The Miracle in Valby
Overview: 14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication center. Via radio he is in contact with his father, who works at a big ship at the other side of the globe. One day the radio communication is suddenly interrupted by something which sounds like a Latin mass. In school Sven attends a lesson about radio-astronomy. The teacher explains that astronomers can receive radio waves that are thousand years old. Sven understands that the Latin mass he heard was transmitted to him from another age. He gets curious and starts making experiments by connecting his radio kit to bigger aerials. When he sits in the caravan together with his friends Bo and Petra, they not only hear the Latin mass on his radio, but the whole caravan is turned into a time-machine that brings them to the Middle Ages. They get in trouble with some warriors, who capture Petra, while Sven and Bo escape with the help of their time-machine...
Genres: Family Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1989-10-06
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Isfugle
Overview: John and René are in their twenties, close friends but different enough for René to be nicknamed Thunderbird, while John remains just plain John. John feels irresistibly drawn into Thunderbird's orbit, but René isn't all flash. He actually longs to share John's plainness and quiet calm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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Just Like Home
Overview: The tale of a troubled small town, and the brave few who made it their mission to keep the community together. As the citizens of a secluded Danish town gradually lose their trust in one and other, the sight of a naked man walking through town in the early hours of the morning sets off an unsettling wave of paranoia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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Syrup
Overview: In this wry comedy, the self-deceiving exploits of Lasse (Peter Hesse Overgaard), are shown, as he more or less innocently runs small cons on the people in his life, all the while sponging off of his girlfriend in a bohemian quarter of Copenhagen. He is a no-count, but fairly handsome young stud who imagines that he is some sort of art promoter, or is perhaps even a video artist himself.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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Majas løfte
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2024-02-20
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Negerkys og labre larver
Overview: Dette er en historie om to piger på 11 år. Nana, som har en hund, men som egentlig bare drømmer om være en anset ballerina, og Conny, der er tvunget til at gå til ballet, men som har et brændende ønske om at være berømt dyrlæge. Hvad vil der blive af de to? Og hvad vil der ske, når de endelig møder det verdensberømte pop-idol Michael Jackson? Og hvad med Anders, drengen, som bliver efterladt med tvillingebørn og netop har fået en billet til VM i Mexico? Er du forvirret? Det er pigerne ikke. De har fundet den perfekte løsning på rodet – bare se med her og tag del i løjerne!
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1987-10-09
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Jeg elsker dig
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Body Switch
Overview: A dying elderly scientist proposes love-sick Jonas a cure that will improve the youngster's physical skills and general sex-appeal. What the scientist really aims to accomplish is a body switch: he wants to survive in a young man's body and gladly leaves Jonas to wake up in his own wasted frame. Jonas must somehow signal his predicament to his friends. Both men rev up for a survival-of-the-fittest chase.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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Two on a Couch
Overview: A story of a strong friendship between two men and their single life in Copenhagen in the nineties. The modern Don Juan, Pierre, and his good friend and contrast, the painter Søren. The two of them stick together when nothing works their way. A black comedy of love, eroticism, loneliness and fate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1994-10-27
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Casanova
Overview: Farcial action fun with Bertil and Hugo, who do menial jobs at a big city hotel. Bertil is about to marry and has put money aside for his bride's morning gift. Only Hugo has kind of borrowed the money and blown it all on a wrong bet in a pigeon race. Together, they obviously have to get rich quick. When a diamond seems to be lying around for the taking, the hotel is virtually on its head.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Good People
Overview: A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in the woods with the bird.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-07-13
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Sofie
Overview: Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Bedemanden
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Tomatprincippet
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Rødtotterne og Tyrannos
Overview: Seven 12-year-olds fight against property speculators and local officials who intend to replace a treasured forest with a concrete building jungle.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Food Club
Overview: Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal "bachelor" who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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