Jytte Kvinesdal
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Danmark
Birthday: February 07, 1953
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Gender: Female
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Turn Right by the Yellow Dog
Overview: A fair point, considering the father happens to be dead! Philip is a successful architect with little or no time for his 16-year-old son. When his own father dies, Philip suddenly realises the pain of having been abandoned years ago. Enter Karl, a charming old rogue who claims to have been a close friend of Philip's dad. Philip invites Karl to stay at his house, where Karl quickly becomes a surrogate father-figure for both Philip and his son. But just as Philip's mind starts to open, the truth about Karl threatens to emerge, and soon both men are in for big surprises in this heartwarming, bittersweet comedy about a man's struggle to make peace with his dead father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Angel
Overview: Stripper Stinna lives in a violent relationship with drug abuse, and her five-year-old daughter is in foster care. One night, she is confronted with the failures and concealments of the past, as a misunderstanding leads to a job in a large mansion. Stinna is first in the throes of her emotions, but before the night is over, she must lower the parades in reconciliation and in recognition that she too has something to rectify.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2021-08-31
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Before It Ends
Overview: When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2023-09-23
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Freedom on Parole
Overview: When career criminal John - the character from Clausen's drama-comedy »Temporary Release« (2007) - is granted parole, he hastens to Jutland to visit his son who is in difficulty. John might be a dedicated father, a perfect employee, and a great line-dancer, but life isn't exactly plain sailing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-06-10
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The Kiss
Overview: A romantic drama set in Denmark in 1913, the story follows Anton, a noble and conscientious young man whose top priority is to complete his training as a cavalry officer. During a training session, he orders his platoon to help Baron von Løvenskjold and finds himself invited to a ball at the castle, where he meets the baron’s beautiful daughter Edith who has been in an accident and ended up in a wheelchair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2022-10-15
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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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The Hunt
Overview: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-06-13
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The Sunfish
Overview: Kesse is a third generation fisherman, living in a small coastal town in Northern Jutland. Life trudges along without surprises, but all this is about to change. The fishing industry is hit by financial crisis and the small fishing boats are swiftly put out of competition by big corporations. In desperation, Kesse tries to find a way out of his hopeless plight and has to resort to dishonest means, on top of having to fire his best friend and lone employee. As if this wasn't enough, he gets an unwelcome guest on-board in the form of marine biologist Gerd from Copenhagen, sent to study the fishing. Søren Balle's debut feature is a funny and touching film about love, friendship and the difficult art of dealing with change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-01-27
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Polle Fiction
Overview: The whole plot in this crazy comedy movie is a story about a geeky and nerdy guy called Polle, who lives in a little village named Snave, which is far out in the Danish countryside. Even though he has turned 30, he's is still living with his parents, and he's kind of an outsider in the little town. The only sort of "friends" he actually has, are three totally much more insane yokels named Heino, Jøgge and Knasti, who are always spending their time, doing live tough for poor Polle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2002-03-08
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Nothing's All Bad
Overview: Follows the lives of four longing souls. Ingeborg who feels unattractive and young Jonas who is so attractive that he can literally sell some of what he's got. Anna, a young beautiful woman with a physical disability, and Anders, a tender man with a psychological disability. Four people yearning for love, four people, each hoping for a better tomorrow.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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Worlds Apart
Overview: 17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-02-22
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What's Wrong with This Picture?
Overview: A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself. Another is about Erik, whose wife has been lobbying a Better Homes and Gardens type magazine to do a spread on their perfect home. When the editors finally relent, she makes Erik sip his red wine in the laundry room lest he stain their cream-colored couches. Svend, the last remaining Marxist in Copenhagen, is the impassioned organizer of a political mass meeting where no one shows up. Finally, Jens, a pizza and porno connoisseur, connives his way to some booty by convincing Gry the model that he lives with his mentally challenged brother. Over the course of a week, their paths cross and nothing, and nobody, is ever quite the same again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-08-13
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Pain of Love
Overview: A young woman who falls in love with her teacher is hit by heartache and challenges she is not prepared for and struggles to escape her dark frame of mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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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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The Commune
Overview: A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2016-01-14
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An Angry Man
Overview: From an old self-help tape the spineless Lars follows guidance, which brings him to kidnap his estranged father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-04-18
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Malou's Christmas
Overview: Trouble child, Malou is sent to live with new foster parents BIBI and LEIF on a small island. Malou resents everything and everyone, and just wants to escape. Local gnome, Nils hates change, and he hates Malou. The two form a pact to get her thrown off the island. But Malou finds personal success in helping Leif chop down Christmas trees, and before long she realizes that she's made a terrible mistake. But the gnome pact cannot be voided. Nils destroys the farm's traditional Christmas market and throws the blame on Malou. The trouble child has to step up and prove herself. After a fierce battle with Nils, Malou manages to restore her relationship with her new parents and save Christmas.
Genres: Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2020-11-19
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