Helle Virkner
Also Known As: Helle Genie Virkner, Хелле Виркнер, Helle Genie Lotinga
Biography: Helle Genie Lotinga was born in Aarhus to Jewish rentier Moritz Lotinga and Ellen Larsine (née Rasmussen). Her parents divorced when she was 5, at which point she moved with her mother from Old Rye to Copenhagen. Her paternal family escaped to Sweden doing the occupation of Denmark in 1943. Helle changed her last name from Lotinga to Virkner in 1944. Helle Virkner was married three times. First to actor William Rosenberg (1944–1949), then to actor Ebbe Rode (1949–1958), and her third marriage was to the then Foreign Minister of Denmark and later Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag (1914–1978), with whom she had one child, daughter Astrid Helene 'Søsser' Krag, a journalist and former model. Krag also had a soon from a previous relationship named Jens Christian Stephan Krag. Helle and Søsser lived together in sheltered housing in Charlottenlund in the last years of Helle's life.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
Adult: No
Birthday: September 15, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 10, 2009
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Flickering Lights
Overview: Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Overview: The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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Old Maids
Overview: Bettina Eriksen, manager of her Uncle Teodor's nursing home, is being framed for murder. With the help of 2 older ladies, Bettina sets out to find out the murderer's identity and motive.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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Passer Babysitting Girls
Overview: Caretaker Alf Thomsen's very effective "alarm clock" comes once again in operation, and has again succeeded in getting him up to speed, despite their incessant discussions back and forth. Everything is peaceful and idyllic. Sleeping city housing block, with the famous staircase is to embark on a new day
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-07-23
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Dust on the Brain
Overview: The story centers around the busybody housewives of a modern Danish working class neighborhood of the 1960's. A remake of the Norwegian comedy film from 1959.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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Dust for all the Money
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1963-12-13
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Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Overview: Danish comedy film from 1961 directed by Erik Balling.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1961-09-11
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Landmandsliv
Overview: Danish movie from 1965
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Our Home Is Our Castle
Overview: Residents of the old house are quite happy with their existence. But once they find out that the authorities plan to demolish the entire neighborhood including their house in order to build a business center they decide to unite and fight the plan...
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-03-07
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The bride from Dragstrup
Overview: At Helene Dragstrup's 20th birthday, her grandmother Margrethe decides that it is time that Helene learns something about life outside the protective walls of the estate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1955-08-17
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Mor bag rattet
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-11-05
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På tro og love
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Genres: Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1955-08-19
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Mor skal giftes
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1958-10-26
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Still Dust on the Brain
Overview: Det Støver Stadig er den anden film i den populære "Støv-serie" (Støv På Hjernen, Støv For Alle Pengene). Atter stod Arvid Müller og Aage Stentoft for det festlige manuskript, der introducerede nye sæder og skikke på det danske boligmarked. Man genkender let det lille samfund i "sovebyen", men store omvæltninger har fundet sted siden sidst, for beboerne på Solvænget har - med kommunestøtte - købt den ejendom, de bor i, og (- så kom noget, dengang, helt nyt) hustruerne har måttet tage arbejde for at klare økonomien! Helt forrygende er fru Rigmor Hansen (Bodil Udsen) som bestyrerinde af et Quick-vaskeri. Hendes "sandheder" om det nye dagligliv i Danmark sidder klokkeklart - og er evigt unge. Ejendommens første generalforsamling med gutterne i opgangen - og aflæggelse af første års regnskab, er gyldne scener fra dansk familiefilms guldalder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1962-09-28
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The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Overview: The poet and Lillemor have become parents, but poetry and washing the diapers are two subjects which are hard to unite under the same roof. The two just married couples, the barber Anton and Vera plus the baker and Lise, are having some difficulties with their marriages but that doesn't scare off the butcher, who's got the hots for the midwife.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1960-05-02
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Sunstroke
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1953-03-09
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Den kære familie
Overview: Copenhagen around the turn of the century - December 29th, 1899. Great merchant and shipowner Jacob Friis is one of Copenhagen's richest men. His home is the gathering place for family and friends. Since his wife's dead 10 years earlier, he shares sense of family and business acumen with his three daughters. Jacob wants to find a nobleman for his daughter Emily. Baron Claes is a very charming gentleman, but also a great womanizer...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1962-08-03
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The Only Way
Overview: In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark's Jews remained free. The Nazis agreed. In October 1943, the agreement was broken... This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark's valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Kingdom
Overview: Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1994-11-24
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The Kingdom II
Overview: Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Onkel Bill fra New York
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1959-07-17
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Revolution My A..
Overview: A comedy about a Danish private detective, normally just occupied with cases about unfaithful spouses, is suddenly involved in murder, arms deal, revolution in Guateragua, briefcase full of money and the Danish intelligence agency.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1970-10-09
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Kispus
Overview: When a young woman falls in love with a gown in a shop window it leads to adventure and romance exceeding even her own vivid imagination.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1956-05-06
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Hendes store aften
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1954-03-12
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Take What You Want
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1947-07-05
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Death Comes at High Noon
Overview: A dark evening, a crime writer Peter Sander, drives through a forest when his car runs out of petrol . A little distance from the road there is a house with lighted windows, and he goes there to borrow a phone. Suddenly he trips over a tree root and sprain one foot . He lags up the forest road . Then there is a shot, a moment after running steps. A beam cuts through the dark. It goes out . The steps moves away. Peter gets up and stomps up to the house . No one responds to his knokking.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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3 må man være
Overview: A lawyer has a wife and a mistress. He loves them both equally high and together, they're the perfect wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1959-02-13
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Englen i sort
Overview: dansk film skal ses
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1957-11-18
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Frihed, lighed og Louise
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1944-09-13
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Himlen er blaa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1954-03-20
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Cupid on the Phone
Overview: During a train journey, Carolus, master of literature, meets the charming Italian Enrico. The two men discuss eroticism, and it ends with a bet: In a few days in Copenhagen, Enrico will seduce four women. Coincidentally - and unfortunately, Carolus' wife is the first Enrico to date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1957-12-16
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Cirkus Buster
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Genres: Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1961-10-09
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Topsy Turvy
Overview: An uptight young man and his equally uptight family moves next door to a hedonistic clan, including the beautiful, sexy Topsy, who charms the new neighbor boy Tom. But Tom discovers that the price of loving Topsy may be higher than he's willing to pay -- she insists on absolute honesty and a life and love without possession or exclusivity.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1983-10-06
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Kassen stemmer
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1976-08-02
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The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Overview: After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1973-10-05
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Otte akkorder
Overview: Eight separate family dramas (uncovering many aspects of deceit) are woven together to the sound of a certain Chopin waltz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1944-11-04
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Over alle grænser
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1958-03-07
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Peters landlov
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1963-06-27
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The Poet and the Little Mother
Overview: 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. The villagers are distrustful towards the newcomers. After a while the baker, the butcher and the grocer won't give Poeten and Lillemor credit anymore. Also the old creditor is back dogging them. Should Poeten renounce his high poetical standards and write simple verses for popular music, to get money?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1959-03-06
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My Name Is Petersen
Overview: In a train on its way through the bombed out Germany are a bunch of happy American soldiers. They are going to Copenhagen for some R&R. One of them is John Petersen, a lieutenant in the American army and another is his friend Bill. They are talking about how much they are looking forward to a rest in Denmark and John Petersen who is of Danish descent talks about his native Copenhagen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1947-09-29
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Nineteen Red Roses
Overview: After his girlfriend is killed in an automobile accident, a man decides the best revenge on those responsible is to murder their loved ones.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1974-08-17
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Søren Søndervold
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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We Meet at Tove's
Overview: Eight old school friends meet at Tove's to discuss what has happened in the last 10 years. Some have made careers, others have become homemakers, some are married and others alone. The community is intact, but what no one knows is that Tove is hiding a big, unhappy secret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1946-08-02
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Tante Tut fra Paris
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1956-07-23
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Det var en lørdag aften
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-06-27
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En pige uden lige
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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For freedom and justice
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Watch Your Back, Professor!
Overview: When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1977-08-19
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Penge som græs
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1948-02-23
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Spurve under taget
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1944-02-11
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Tjærehandleren
Overview: Audun’s son is killed in an accident while the mother is in bed with her lover. Ten years later is Audun on the road living as a salesman and on the lone women that he meet and steal money from.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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Hvor er Far
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1948-10-30
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Bertram og Lisa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Trækfugle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2001-11-26
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Skide godt, Balling!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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